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The Dream Of DRM-Free Steam PC Games Is Fading Away

Photo: Casimiro PT (Shutterstock) Good Old Games, or GOG, the digital-rights-management-free PC gaming marketplace and platform from CD Projekt, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel terribly long for this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import portions of your Steam library to GOG, where they could exist in

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This Final Fantasy VII Voice Mod Finally Lets Tifa Swear

You tell him, Tifa.Image: Square Enix / Tsunamods / PngWing / Kotaku Someone has created a mod for the original Final Fantasy VII that adds full voice acting to Square Enix’s megapopular ‘97 RPG. The FFVII voice mod, called Echo-S 7, was created by Tsunamods, a team of modders who specialize in re-textures and 3D

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The Ben Brode Creator Interview

Screenshot: Kotaku Marvel Snap is just shy of three months old, and it’s fair to say it’s been a success. While the exact number of users hasn’t been shared, Google Play reports over five million downloads, even before you include iOS numbers. And with such popularity comes great scrutiny. Why are the store prices so

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Genshin Impact’s Weakest Character May Be Its New Strongest

Screenshot: HoYoverse / Kotaku HoYoverse just put out a new story trailer for Genshin Impact, and one burning question is consuming the entirety of the fandom: How did a small child carry one of Genshin’s strongest DPS characters on her back? As of the time of writing, “SHE WHAT???” is currently the most upvoted topic

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Atlus Demands Spoiler Warnings In Streams Of Old Persona Games

The Atlus team just waiting for a content creator to mess up.Image: Atlus Atlus is back with some peculiarly limiting stipulations for folks looking to livestream Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, the upcoming HD remasters of two pretty old RPGs slated to launch on January 19. You should be careful lest the developer-publisher

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Ubisoft’s Skull And Bones Delays: The Complete Decade-Long Saga

Image: Ubisoft / Kotaku Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing. And just yesterday, Skull

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All The Big Pokémon Games, Ranked From Worst To Best

By sending players back into the past, Pokémon Legends: Arceus told a radically different story.Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku For some, Pokémon Legends: Arceus might feel like an empty tech demo, but it also marks the most significant, refreshing leap forward the series has had in over a decade. Its open-world structure isn’t as

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Destiny 2 Showers Players With Armor Mods Ahead of Lightfall

Image: Bungie Destiny 2 is fixing a bunch of stuff for the month and change ahead of February’s massive Lightfall expansion. Players won’t have to grind so much to get into Grandmaster Nightfall missions. Iron Banner will be much more generous with armor drops in the weeks ahead. And armor mods, one of the most

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Rick And Morty Creator Facing Domestic Violence Charges

Image: Greg Doherty (Getty Images) Justin Roiland, creator of TV series Rick and Morty and the recently released High on Life game, has been charged with domestic violence against a former girlfriend. NBC News reports that it obtained Orange County Superior Court records stating that a criminal complaint was filed against Roiland back in May

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The Standing Your PS5 May Damage Your Console Panic, Explained

Image: mkfilm / Kotaku (Shutterstock) Recently, there’s been some concern about whether or not PS5’s are safe to stand vertically. Videos and observations from independent console technician TheCod3r and a followup article from Wololo that quoted one such video out of context led to palpable worry among some that standing the PS5 in a vertical

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