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New Xbox Controller Looks Like A Beautiful Galaxy

I want to go to there.Image: Microsoft You can keep your console wars, I just want the pretty peripherals. Xbox keeps providing them with their latest controller color scheme, Stellar Shift, and I can’t help but wonder if Xbox looked at the space-themed PlayStation controllers from a few years back and went, “Yeahhhh, we can

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How To Catch Up On The Last Of Us After Watching The HBO Show

Image: HBO So, you’ve been watching The Last of Us on HBO and are thinking about getting into the larger franchise? While it does seem pretty straightforward, there’s a bit of external media worth checking out to get the full sense of the series. Here’s a rundown on how to get the full Last of

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Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise Instead Of Layoffs

Image: Nintendo Nintendo announced a 20 percent Switch sales drop in its latest financial report, but still plans to institute a 10 percent pay raise, the company told investors Tuesday. While it’s unclear if that hike will trickle down to temporary contractors at the Mario maker’s North American headquarters, some there say they’ve already seen

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Get Ready For A Surprise 40 Minute Nintendo Direct

Graphic: Nintendo Nintendo dropped the news suddenly this morning: it will host its next Nintendo Direct livestream at 5 p.m. ET tomorrow, February 8. Oh, OK! The video game company did not include much information on what to expect, just a baseline. The livestream will feature “roughly 40 minutes of information mostly focused on #NintendoSwitch

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NBA Star Is Releasing A Naruto-Themed Pair Of Air Jordans

Photo: Nike While we’ve known for a while that New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson loved anime, things are about to get a little more serious with the release of an upcoming pair of sneakers. Nike have announced that Williamson, who has his own signature shoe with the company (the Zion 1), will soon be

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The concept art and illustrations behind God of War Ragnarök

I don’t know if I’ve ever actually discussed this on Fine Art before, it’s just something we have to work with in the background and I haven’t wanted to bore you with the details, but you should know that video game artists are rarely, if ever, allowed to just share their work whenever and however

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Madden Has Gotten Very Bad At ‘Predicting’ The Super Bowl

Screenshot: EA Sports It’s Super Bowl week, which means the sporting news cycle is full of the same old shit it is every year. Empty interviews, retrospectives on Super Bowls past, endless predictions on who is going to win on Sunday…and one prediction in particular, which comes around every season like clockwork. I get it,

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Diablo Immortal Is Getting More Expensive For Hoarders

Image: Blizzard Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s free-to-play mobile dungeon crawler, has garnered accusations of being a greedy, money-sucking ARPG ever since launch. You’d think the company would want to avoid worsening that perception, but here we are with Blizzard announcing that the long-requested increase to players’ stash sizes is finally coming…but at a cost that few

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Overwatch Just Nerfed Mercy Into The Ground

Illustration: Liudmila Chernetska (Getty Images) / Blizzard / Kotaku Overwatch 2 has released a ton of news and updates today, but all anyone is really talking about is a serious Mercy nerf. While some of the support characters including Lucio, Zenyatta, and Brigitte got buffs, Mercy mains everywhere are most certainly crying while reading the

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