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Diablo IV Quest Dev Shows How The Narrative Sausage Gets Made

Diablo’s lore isn’t necessarily the popular action-RPG series’ main appeal. When you’re in the thick of it, hecticly chasing endless streams of glorious loot, it’s very easy to forget the details of where you’re fighting or who even lives in this world. Even so, Diablo IV’s developers think it has an interesting story to tell

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I Wasn’t Prepared For Resident Evil 4’s Chainsaw Boss Village

Resident Evil 4 combines two of my least favorite things in the world: shooting and horror. But with the remake out, and nearly twenty years passing since my initial adverse reaction to it (you can’t expect an elementary schooler to adequately handle their character being axed in the head), I thought I was ready to

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Tears Of The Kingdom’s Meat Arrows Have Fans Obsessed

Tuesday, Nintendo showcased a 10-minute look at the hotly anticipated sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While most fans went wild over the new handyman crafting abilities Link sports in Tears of the Kingdom, a subset of fans have been salivating at the opportunity to pummel both minor enemies and bosses

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Diablo IV Streamer Beats World Boss Almost Entirely Solo

Twitch streamer wudijo has done the unthinkable and beaten Diablo IV’s big world boss, Ashava the Pestilent, (mostly) by himself on the hardest difficulty. I’m stunned, especially since the dragon is already a tough challenge to face. 8 Minutes Of Diablo IV’s Character Creator Read More: Diablo IV’s Beta Has Us Kinda Obsessed With Hell

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Steam Is Getting A GameCube And Nintendo Wii Emulator

The makers of Dolphin announced the GameCube and Wii emulator will come to Steam Early Access later this year. It promises to let users play classics like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Super Mario Galaxy with improved graphics and better performance than the original consoles offered. I’m sure Nintendo’s lawyers are thrilled.

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PUBG’s Landmark Popularity Is All About The Adrenaline, Baby

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds went from a mod for zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2), to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action film Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students to kill one another until only one remains. It’s a theme

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11 ‘Bad’ Games We’ll Die Defending

Image: Nintendo I’ve spent a lifetime hearing folks malign Zelda II: The Adventure of Link as “objectively the worst Zelda game” or making other similarly denigrating statements. (OK, occasionally they’ll make allowances for Spirit Tracks being even worse.) Well, I’m here to say that you’re all wrong. Zelda II is both a great game in

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Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Auto-Sort Feature Has Changed The Game

Making my way downtown, cases pass, and I auto-sort.Illustration: Capcom / Kotaku Resident Evil games have always been, in part, storage management simulators. You must carefully craft how each item fits into your bag, case, or whatever else you’re using to lug your gear around. Like many others, I took great pride in this. I

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10 Meh Games That Became Killer With Updates

Image: 343 Industries Oh, Halo. While you’ll always have a fan in me, those early days of The Master Chief Collection were friggin’ rough. In 2014, I was hypnotized by the idea of every numbered Halo game, and all of its multiplayer, packaged into a single experience. Were it so easy. MCC would be the

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Warzone 2.0’s Biggest Streamer Is Taking A Break

Aydan Conrad is one of the biggest competitive Call of Duty streamers with over 3 million followers on Twitch and over a million on YouTube. On March 27, Conrad announced that he intended to take a break from creating content for Warzone 2.0. The Witcher 3 Meets Tense Roguelike PvE Card-Battling In Rogue Mage “I

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