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Nintendo Giving Away Zelda Book Previously In Special Edition

Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, successor to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, is out soon. And while there’s a big fancy collector’s edition of the sequel available, which includes a book, Nintendo is this week taking the time to revisit the original, releasing for free a book called The Explorer’s

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Our Favorite Cosplay From Katsucon 2023: The Kotaku Gallery

After a few months off for Winter, the North American cosplay season is starting to heat up once again, with the year’s first major show—Katsucon—taking place last month just outside of DC. The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center played host to the con, which ran February 17-19 and drew around 15,000 people, many of

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Ubisoft Proudly Announces An ‘AI’ Is Helping Write Dialogue

Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon, tonight announced that an “AI tool” is currently helping its developers write dialogue for some of its games. This tool, called Ghostwriter, is described as: Introducing Ubisoft Ghostwriter, an AI tool developed in-house that aims to support our scriptwriters by generating the first draft

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Shazam Star Begs To Be In The Last Of Us After Shazam 2 Bombs

Image: DC / Kotaku Shazam! Fury of the Gods was released in theaters last week to a resounding “meh, okay” from audiences and critics alike. And now its main star and Jordan Peterson admirer, Zachary Levi, is out here on Twitter asking Neil Druckmann to cast him in the next season of the popular HBO

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Trump Hasn’t Been Arrested But But AI Images Are Fooling People

Photo: Shane Bevel/NCAA Photos (Getty Images) The former U.S. president Donald Trump still walks free as of the time of writing. But certain AI-generated photos on Twitter tell a different story. These deepfakes depict a world where one of the most powerful white men in America can be treated like any other citizen, meaning actually

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Final Fantasy 16’s Party Looks Top Tier With This Wolf Buddy

We’re a few months away from Final Fantasy XVI’s June 22 release date, and more details about the upcoming not-so-final fantasy-RPG keep tricking out. In addition to learning that the game is approximately 80 hours long, we’ve finally gotten a short-but-sweet glimpse of the cute wolf buddy kicking ass. Read More: Final Fantasy 16 Devs

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Make Your Own Darn Call Of Duty Game

As regulators approach their deadline to approve or reject Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, those for and against the mega merger are filing every last argument they can think of to try and sway the outcome. My favorite one yet involves Microsoft telling Sony to quit whining already and just get started making

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One Of The Best Battlefield Games Ever Is Getting Shut Down

Today, Electronic Arts and developer Dice announced plans to sunset a selection of older Battlefield games and Mirror’s Edge later this month. Sadly, the list includes one of the best entries in the Battlefield franchise: Bad Company 2. And while you’ll still be able to play it online until the end of this year, you

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Diablo IV Classes Won’t Always Feel Balanced, Blizzard Says

Although Diablo IV’s early access beta wrapped up on March 20, another one will run from March 24 through 26. This window gives you access to all five classes, two of which—the Druid and Necromancer—were initially unavailable. While none have anything in common, other than their propensity to kill evil shit, one thing you might’ve

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Twitch Star Hasan Gives $25k To Help Dogs Find Forever Families

This weekend, Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was trying to adopt a new dog. While he visited three Los Angeles based shelters, he decided to donate a total of $25,000 to help cover the adoption fees for other prospective dog owners. In March 2020, Piker lost his pitbull Fish to liver cancer. “Fish

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