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Game Banned On Switch By Nintendo After Child Gambling Joke

Last week, Nintendo mistakenly blocked and rejected the release of a cutesy animal game, after it took a jokey TikTok from the developer at face value and pulled its release in North America. Trek To Yomi Is The Best Time You’ll Never Want To Have Again Sunshine Shuffle, the game denied its release day, is

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Male Video Game Characters Talk More Than Women, Research Shows

A new study has uncovered a not-so-surprising truth about gender bias in video games: Across 50 role-playing games, male characters have about twice as much dialogue as female characters. Shocking, I know. What You Should Know About Mario Strikers’ Big Free Update The study, “Gender Bias in Video Game Dialogue,” was published on May 24

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How To Beat The Frost Gleeok

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has plenty of tough bosses, but the Frost Gleeok in Tabantha Tundra is one of the game’s hardest encounters. Fighting it will require some preparation and careful planning, but if you know what to look for, you can slay it and rid Hyrule of this icy menace

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Fusing Zonai Devices To Arrows Is Awesome

It’s Wednesday, May 31, and that means it’s another day where I tell you about something you might not’ve known you could do in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. While many of us are already aware that you can fuse all sorts of regular items to arrows to increase their efficiency, as

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Survival RPG Takes Assassin’s Creed Formula To The Aztec Empire

Gif: Giantscraft / Kotaku Ecumene Azted is a newly announced survival action RPG where you play as an indigenous warrior in 16th century Mesoamerica trying to fight off Spanish conquistador invaders. The first trailer looks rough in places but is already drawing attention for showing off a game that’s trying something a little different. Developed

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Great Game Pass Action RPG Has More Original Ideas Than Diablo

I cannot imagine how daunting it must be to begin making a Diablo-like action-RPG. Not only are there so very few of them, but those that are known are behemoths. Diablo, obviously, then Titan Quest, Torchlight, Grim Dawn… Who’d want to deliberately step into their shadows, especially with Diablo IV coming out next week to a

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Diablo IV Fans Who Hit Level 100 In Permadeath Get Cool Reward

After a decade-long wait, the next chapter in Diablo is finally upon us. With it come dozens of dungeons and a sizable open world filled with legions of demons to slaughter. Millions will no doubt answer the call and take up arms, but Blizzard has now issued a special challenge for those willing to brave

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Riot Threatens To Cancel Entire LCS Season Over Player Strike

Earlier this week League of Legends players voted “overwhelmingly” to strike over plans to make rule changes that would cut the North American Challenger’s League—which only launched last year—from 16 teams to seven. The Week In Games: System Shock, Street Fighter 6, And More The LCS Players Association, the body representing the region’s professional players,

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Video Game Studio Denies Laying Off Staff Artists For AI

Rayark, the developers of the excellent Cytus rhythm action games (which we’ve covered previously), have this week faced allegations that some of the company’s artists had been laid off and replaced with, you guessed it, machine-generated imagery. The Week In Games: System Shock, Street Fighter 6, And More As Gamerbraves report, the controversy began last

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Setris Is Tetris With Sand And It’s Incredibly Satisfying

Odds are high that, you a Kotaku reader, have played Tetris before. In fact, you’ve likely played a lot of Tetris or one of its many clones and knock-offs. But you’ve probably never played a Tetris-inspired game quite like Setris, a new take on the popular puzzler that adds physics and satisfying, shifting sand to

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