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Wall Street Threatens To Drop FaZe Clan Over Bad Stock Price

Photo: Kevork Djansezian (Getty Images) Less than a year into gaming content creator mega-brand FaZe Clan’s disastrous Wall Street experiment, the Nasdaq has said please, no more. The New York-based stock exchange sent a “Notice of Delisting” last week to the esports company threatening to drop it from trading if it doesn’t get its stock

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Kotaku Reviews Terra Nil, Devolver Digital’s New City-Builder

Terra Nil is a city-builder that’s not really a city-builder. It plays like one, so it’s easy to use that label as shorthand (developers Free Lives call it a “reverse city-builder”), but Terra Nil doesn’t ask you to lay any roads or worry about residential taxes. It’s more of a “resource management puzzle game” (publisher

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Shiny Pokémon Have Never Been More Common, For Better Or Worse

Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week, we’re looking at the history of Shiny Pokémon and how catching them became a huge pillar of the series’ fanbase. Catching Shiny Pokémon

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Microsoft Ends $1 Xbox Game Pass Offer For First Month of Use

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s long-running introductory offer for its Xbox Game Pass subscription platform, which let users try the service out for $1 for the first month before moving onto more expensive payments, has finally come to a close. As The Verge report, the deal—which applied to both Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and the PC Game

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PC Game Dark & Darker Accused Of ‘Theft’, Removed From Steam

The controversy surrounding Dark and Darker, an MMO that stands accused of stealing not just assets but also staff from Korean publishers Nexon, escalated over the weekend when the game was delisted from Steam. As we’ve reported previously, Dark and Darker—a fantasy MMO that was supposed to go into Early Access in April—is being developed

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Destiny 2 Quietly Changes Vagina Armband

Image: Bungie Destiny 2 has gotten a bunch of hotfixes since the Lightfall expansion launched several weeks ago, but none like yesterday’s update. A fix not mentioned in the patch notes secretly changed the game’s newest Warlock armband armor to make it look less like a vagina. Bond of Detestation is a class item that

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How Sega Localizes The Yakuza Games With Authenticity And Humor

The Like a Dragon series (formerly known as the Yakuza series) is the most video game ever. This melodramatic crime drama series about a bunch of burly gangsters with the power to rip their suits clean off from their lapels has wacky plotlines where you hire a chicken as a real estate employee, manage a

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Dark Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Takes After God Of War

The Last Ronin comic is being adapted into an action-focused single-player video game that will play similarly to God of War. The popular and gritty 2020 comic, a spin-off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, stars the last remaining turtle in a war-ravaged wasteland. While most people think of TMNT as a cartoonish, family-friendly

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They Can’t Play These Games Anymore, And They Blame Exes

“Back in 2013, my ex-husband and I played a game called TERA. He became obsessed with it, to the point where he brought my gaming laptop to the hospital so that he could play TERA while I recovered from giving birth (including during one of the first pictures he took with our son). “A couple

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Fantasy Author Brandon Sanderson Asks Fans Not To Defend Him

Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author who nets tens of millions of dollars in book sales every year, which puts him in the same book-selling league as George R.R. Martin. However, his financial success has not really translated into a similar mainstream visibility outside of his specific fanbase—until this week. The tech magazine Wired published

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