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Star Citizen’s Alpha 3.18 Update Leads To A Very Bad Week

Star Citizen—a video game first announced when Gangnam Style was top of the charts—is sometimes unfairly labelled as vapourware. It’s usually called that by people who have never actually played it; if they had, they’d know that there is the framework of a game out there, which can be played, but which is also nowhere

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Finally, Lego Gives The Mandalorian A Good Darksaber

Image: Lego / Lucasfilm / Kotaku I bring good news for all you Lego Star Wars nerds: After a decade of multiple sets coming with a crappy, generic Lego Darksaber piece that no one likes, things are finally changing. An upcoming new Mandalorian-themed set will include a more accurate Darksaber piece instead of the current,

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Veteran Anime Composer Arrested For Sexual Assault Of Teenager

Image: TBS News Dig Earlier today, Hidekazu Tanaka, a composer whose work includes contributions to Pokémon Journeys: The Series and The Idolm@ster, admitted in court to stalking and soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl, as well as a dozen other obscene public acts from the past 10 years. During a trial with the Tokyo District

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Buy These Excellent 3DS Games Before eShop Closes This Month

Nintendo is shutting down the 3DS and Wii U eShops at the end of the month. It feels premature and idiotic, but such is the world we live in. Nintendo’s 3D handheld will always live in the shadow of its more popular predecessor, but damn if the 3DS didn’t have a bunch of great and

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Twitch Streamer Caught With Deepfake Porn Back, Wants To Help

Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing—the Twitch streamer who in January accidentally revealed he was viewing explicit deepfake content featuring women streamers he’s friends with IRL, setting off a massive controversy—recently returned to the platform to update his fans. Read More: The Aftermath of Twitch’s Deepfake Porn Scandal During his March 14 stream, which was mired in technical

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12 Uses For The New GPT-4 Program That AI Fans Are Gushing Over

Screenshot: Open AI / Kotaku The developers of GPT-4 claimed that the program can exhibit “human-level performance” on certain exams. While the chart of various academic test scores seems impressive at first, the software failed both AP English exams with a 2 out of 5. It scored extremely well on tests where all that a

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Silent Hill 2 Movie Adaptation Reveals Its Stars

It’s been five months since Konami broke the internet with a cavalcade of video game and movie-related announcements during its Silent Hill showcase. Today, Konami announced a casting update on the upcoming Silent 2 live-action film, which will enter production next month. Read More: After Years Of No Silent Hill, Konami Just Opened The Flood

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Here’s Your Complete Guide To Dead Island 2’s ‘Flesh System’

Zombie-spotted action-adventure Dead Island 2 spent the last nine years pinballing between studios—original developer Techland, then Yager Development, then Sumo Digital, and finally Dambuster, which has ties to the TimeSplitters series in its former, ‘00s life as Free Radical Design. Recently, it gained enough speed to pick up a real release date for next month,

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All The Games Coming To PS Plus Game Catalog

Another month, another chance for Sony to convince you to keep your PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium subscription (or to sign up). And this month the lineup is solid enough that I’ll likely stick around. Over a dozen games are being added, including three classics and a few big triple-A games like Ghostwire: Tokyo, Rage

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