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Kotaku’s Impressions Of Age Of Wonders 4, A New Fantasy 4X

Age of Wonders is a long-running PC strategy series that has been around since 1999. It takes the 4X genre—think Civilization—and transports it into a fantasy world where battles are resolved in tactical showdowns, there’s magic everywhere and your leaders are also RPG characters. An Anime That Might Make You Put Your Minecraft Bed Next

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Prequel To Japanese RPG Is Doing Very Nicely On Kickstarter

While the Golden Age of video games making bank on Kickstarter is long gone, that isn’t to say there aren’t still success stories on the platform. And a big one this month is Elin, a roguelike RPG out of Japan that’s trying to deliver on dreams that fans have been harbouring for 15 years and

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Just Fumbled $1 Billion In Disney Fight

Last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger asked rhetorically if Florida and its governor, Ron DeSantis, wanted all of the company’s business and taxes. Now, events are moving beyond the mere rhetorical as Disney—citing “new leadership and changing business conditions” in Florida—has canceled big plans to move thousands of its staff and their families to the

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Hogwarts Legacy’s Datamined Morality System Is Bewildering

This January, Hogwarts Legacy caused a stir when one of its developers said that the game wouldn’t judge you for committing major crimes such as murder. While this was lorebreaking for the Harry Potter novels, it was also very typical of a video game to have NPCs that ignore crimes being committed in front of

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Stop Wasting Your Tears of The Kingdom Bombs, Do This Instead

Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku Bombs were an infinite resource back in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild because Link could spawn them from his Sheikah Slate at will. In Tears of the Kingdom, however, you have no explosives waiting in your fantasy iPad. Instead, explosive items are precious, finite things you find in

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Tears Of The Kingdom’s Korok Seeds Are Poop

It’s time we talked about the truth of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Korok seeds: They’re poop. The Week In Games: Twisted Therapy And Toy Soldiers These Anime Moms Deserve All The Flowers For Mother’s Day Monday 6:46PM This isn’t entirely a revelation. The collect-a-thon seeds were already heavily implied to be

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Clean SpongeBob’s Dirty House In PowerWash Simulator’s Next DLC

Screenshot: Futurlab / Paramount The newest DLC coming to PowerWash Simulator will let you hop into the ocean to clean up iconic locations and cars from the long-running animated show, SpongeBob SquarePants. These Anime Moms Deserve All The Flowers For Mother’s Day Since its Early Access release in 2021, PowerWash Simulator has become quite popular.

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Get Special Pokémon By Connecting Scarlet and Violet To The App

Screenshot: Nintendo The Pokémon Company just announced that players who link their copies of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet to the Pokémon Home app can obtain special versions of the Paldea starters: Fuecoco, Quaxly, and Sprigatto. While you might already have all three from trading bred Pokémon with your friends, these special starters are variants that

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Tears Of The Kingdom’s Great Fairy Quest Is Worth The Upgrades

Weapons and shields are constantly breaking in Tears of the Kingdom, so you need some perks attached to the one constant you have: clothes. The Great Fairies, giant ladies with magical abilities found around Hyrule, can help you with that. In exchange for some materials, they can make your armor more powerful. The trick is,

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Epic Games Store Will Now Pay You Back For Buying Games

Image: Epic Games / Kotaku The Epic Games Store is rolling out a new “Epic Rewards” program to give players five percent cash back on PC gaming purchases. Whether it’s in-game purchases like Fortnite V-Bucks or big blockbusters like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the new policy is essentially a discount on everything you buy through

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