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Escape From Tarkov Devs Drag Thousands of Cheaters Into Public

Cheaters suck. By exploiting vulnerabilities in any given game, either through datamined hacks or purchasable cheats, charlatans can ruin the fun for everyone involved. Sometimes these swindlers need to be publicly shamed to grasp the gravity of the ban hammer that’s fallen upon them, and that’s exactly what Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate Games has

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Russian Hunter x Hunter Gang Terrorizing Ukraine

The Wish-bought Russian Phantom Troupe sucks, unsurprisingly.Screenshot: Shueisha / Viz Media / Madhouse / Crunchyroll / Kotaku If you thought the war between Ukraine and Russia couldn’t possibly get any worse, it just did. A group of Russian weebs cosplaying as a band of thieves from the popular shonen manga Hunter x Hunter have joined

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14 Things I Love About Destiny 2: Lightfall

Screenshot: Bungie Destiny 2’s Lightfall expansion how now been out for a whole week. It made a bad first impression, but the post-campaign has been much stronger. There’s plenty to appreciate in between the disappointing story and the overall mixed bag of new additions and confusing changes. Outside of the jovial surfer cyborg Nimbus, who

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Playing Hogwarts Legacy As An Asshole Is A Huge Letdown

Screenshot: WB Games / Kotaku I boot up Hogwarts Legacy and step away to refill my coffee cup. Thanks to the PS5’s quick resume mechanic, my character is staring at me from the start screen before I even get a chance to add oat milk to my brew. I gaze, absentmindedly, as the boar’s head

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The Last Of Us Show Spared You From A Famous Death Scene

Screenshot: Naughty Dog The Last of Us show had a pretty gruesome episode this week. The Winter section has long been regarded as the original game’s darkest section, reckoning with its most villainous figures and horrifying realities of the post-apocalypse. Because of that, it’s perhaps merciful on the showrunner’s part that the show omits the

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Xbox Just Added A Bunch Of Great Game Pass Titles

Image: Visceral Games Xbox shared the latest games to join its subscription service Game Pass in a blog announcement earlier today, and it’s looking pretty good. This early month update adds Guilty Gear Strive, plenty of Dead Space, and a few important updates to games you already have. Elegant anime fighting game Guilty Gear Strive

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Yu-Gi-Oh Wiki Loses Catastrophic Loss of Content Spanning Years

Image: Konami / Kotaku It’s a nightmare scenario for Yu-Gi-Oh fans who have to look up cards with convoluted descriptions. Over the weekend, the administrators of Yugipedia—which, as its name implies, is a wiki on all things Yu-Gi-Oh—announced that they had accidentally deleted half of the wikia’s primary database. “Yugipedia has suffered a catastrophic error,”

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Wait, The Nintendo GameCube Nearly Had An Official LCD Screen?

The Nintendo GameCube was a weird little console, one that had all kinds of wacky add-ons and peripherals released for it over the years, from LAN adapters to Game Boy Links to bongo drums. One thing I never knew about until today, however, were the company’s plans for an official LCD screen. Via Go Nintendo,

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Chill Japanese Classic Finally Getting An English Translation

Screenshot: YouTube Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese series that, with a weird and bad exception, has never been officially released in the West. That’s a shame! Where publishers have failed us, though, fans are stepping up and delivering the goods. The series, best translated as My Summer Vacation, began all the way back

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