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Valve Edits Blog Post, Walking Back Its Team Fortress 2 Hype

Image: Valve It was pretty cool last week when Valve, developers of the ancient Team Fortress 2, said that the game was getting “a full-on update-sized update”. It is less cool a week later to find that the company has edited that announcement post in an attempt to pump everyone’s brakes. You can’t blame folks

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Pickle Rick Might Come To MultiVersus Just As Game Is Dying

Screenshot: PlayerFirst Games MultiVersus, Warner Bros. popular online fighting game that made the phrase “LeBron James frame data” a real thing you can say, has experienced a significant drop in its daily player count on Steam. According to SteamDB, the number of folks playing MultiVersus simultaneously has gone from its peak of 153,433 concurrent players

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‘All Your Base’ Game Missing Famous Meme On Steam

Image: Toaplan / Kotaku / eveleen (Shutterstock) Toaplan’s Zero Wing is the game that spawned the classic (ancient, even) meme of “All your base are belong to us.” And it’s now out on Steam, easily accessible on modern hardware. As you might expect, the game’s store page references the beloved memes Zero Wing spawned decades

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Apex Legends’ Team Deathmatch Helps Set New Player Record

Guess you could say TDM was Apex Legends’ lifeline. 👈(゚ヮ゚👈)Illustration: Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment) Just in time to celebrate its fourth anniversary, Respawn Entertainment’s popular free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends has hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam. As of today, Apex Legends’ new peak for the number of people playing simultaneously is

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VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution’

Image: PuppyHexy / VRChat / Kotaku An online virtual reality sex worker was left confused and frustrated when, after applying for a United States tourist visa, she said she received a letter explaining she was “permanently ineligible” for admission to the U.S. The reason given was “prostitution.” In online VR games like VRChat, players can

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League of Legends Is Getting A Pixel Art Action-RPG

Image: Riot Forge / Digital Sun / Kotaku Have you ever found yourself waking up in the middle of the night shouting “no more kings, no more queens, no more mageseekers!”? If so, The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story aims to satisfy that sudden midnight urge to violently alter the political landscape of a

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WoW Player Hits Max Level Before Even Starting The Game

Image: Blizzard A Reddit user recently posted a brief, bombshell documentation of how they accomplished something they claim has never been done before: arrive at World of Warcraft’s newbie starting area, Exile’s Reach, at the highest possible character level 70. Initially noticed by Games Radar, user Cheatcho’s post is happy confirmation that anything is possible,

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Doom Composer Donates Atomic Heart Fee To Red Cross For Ukraine

Image: Mundfish / Kotaku The composer for Doom and Wolfenstein II recently announced that he would be donating the fee from his work on Atomic Heart to the Ukraine Crisis Appeal of the Australian Red Cross. This decision comes weeks after the studio Mundfish was embroiled in controversy over its connections to Russia. Yesterday, Mick

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The 30 Best Anime Of The Decade, Ranked

Crunchyroll / CloverWorks / Wit Studio Release Year: 2022 Genre: Action, Comedy Studio: CloverWorks, Wit Studio Where To Watch: Crunchyroll, Hulu  Why It Rocks: Spy x Family took the anime community by storm the moment it premiered last spring, and for good reason. The show’s titular family is comprised of Loid Forger, a suave super

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Japanese Museum Reunites Gamers With Their Lost Retro Games

Photo: Yukawanet Do you ever wish you could reacquire the games you once had? And not just copies of the same ones, but the very discs or cartridges you used? Well, the Named Cassette Museum in Tokyo is making that very thing a reality for many gamers: reuniting those who once wrote their names, addresses,

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