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This Game About Sex Work Won Awards (And Caused Controversy)

Screenshot: Taylor McCue Content Warning: Discussions of rape, negative experiences with sex work A girl walks into a convenience store, and the game tells her that she can buy any snacks that she wants. I put pizza, coffee, and potato chips into her shopping bag. When she goes up to the counter, the cashier tells

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The Last Of Us Episode 5 Out Early Thanks To The Super Bowl

Image: HBO The Last of Us TV show will officially cross the halfway point of its first season a little earlier than expected thanks to Super Bowl LVII. HBO clarified that episode 5 will be released on Friday this week instead of the usual Sunday drop so that Philly fans will have the time and

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The Week In Games: Hogwarts Syllabus Week

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New Crown Zenith Pokémon Cards Are Making People A Fortune

Image: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku Crown Zenith has proven to be one of the best sets the Pokémon TCG has ever seen. Its celebration of the last three years of Sword & Shield, alongside the best artwork the franchise has ever seen, is making it enormously popular, and highly collectible. Among the mammoth 230

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Wins First Video Game Score Grammy

Screenshot: YouTube For the first time ever, tonight’s Grammy awards featured a category just for video game soundtracks. And the first ever winner in this new category was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. Congratulations! A momentous occasion for everyone involved, but for the rest of us, also a very funny moment of live television. While video games

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Who Are Kathleen And Perry In HBO’s The Last Of Us?

Screenshot: HBO / Kotaku If you played The Last of Us game and are watching HBO’s TV adaptation, you probably saw a couple of characters in this week’s episode and wondered, “Who the hell are these people?” That’s because these characters weren’t in the original game, but there’s a reason you might have thought you

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Pedro Pascal Stars In Hilarious (Fake) Mario Kart x HBO Trailer

When I see news that Saturday Night Live has released another sketch dedicated to the Mario Kart franchise, I get flashbacks. I think we all remember the frankly quite frightening episode of Saturday Night Live back in 2021 where the world’s second-richest man and currently the world’s most punishing poster Elon Musk hosted. It wasn’t

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Car Accidentally Crashes Through Games Store, Trashes The Place

A video game store called Gameco, in Joplin, Missouri, was absolutely trashed over the weekend when a car drove straight through the front wall and ploughed through several shelves of stock, tyres screeching the whole time. Pocketoid and CRTpixels’ Jordan Starkweather shared some video of the crash—it’s his local games store— on Saturday, which you

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John Carmack Has Some Great Advice About Games Preservation

Screenshot: Star Wars | Kotaku Doom co-creator John Carmack, legendary game designer, rocket guy and VR enthusiast, left Meta/Facebook late last year after a decade working on the company’s virtual reality efforts. Just because he’s gone, though, doesn’t mean the company’s decisions are out of his thoughts. Accompanying the news last week that Meta had

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