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Fan Uncovers Starfield’s Full Skill Trees Ahead Of Release

Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku As the next Big Game™ on the near horizon, you might have a lot of questions about Starfield. We know that the game will have an enormous amount of explorable planets, but other specifics are still somewhat of an unknown—until now, that is. One fan has spent hundreds of hours compiling

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Super Rare Arcade Machine Worth $10K Saved From Dump

Imagine you are visiting family and your niece tells you that she saw some old “Tron thing” a few blocks away. You investigate and discover a near-perfect condition, still working, super rare Discs of Tron arcade machine from the 1980s just sitting on the side of the road, waiting to be smashed and tossed into

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The Sims 4 Glitch Is Making Horses Horrifying

If it isn’t riddled with a bunch of off-putting glitches, did publisher EA even release a new The Sims 4 expansion pack? The latest pack, Horse Ranch, which came out on July 20, appears to be crawling with a number of bizarre bugs players have been drawing attention to since the add-on was in previews.

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Oppenheimer Is Cinema’s Most ‘AAA’ Gaming Moment Of 2023

“Video games can never be art,” wrote the great film critic Roger Ebert back in 2010. The implications of that claim have annoyed developers, players, and endless online comment sections ever since like a splinter that’s big enough to hurt but too small to cleanly excise. Were Ebert still alive today, we might ask him

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Fortnite’s Next Big Crossover Is With Futurama

Bite my shiny metal ass and praise Hypnotoad! Epic just announced that Futurama is the next big IP that is getting dumped and mushed into the pop culture slurry that is the free-to-play battle royale juggernaut Fortnite. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Pikmin 4 For those who aren’t as cool as Slurms McKenzie

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The Most Powerful Diablo 4 Heart In Season 1 Is Easy To Farm

Image: Blizzard Diablo IV released its first-ever season on July 20, and with it came a definite way to farm Wrathful Malignant Hearts, one of the most powerful items to boost and customize your build. Rare, ultra-powerful Wrathful Hearts typically only drop from Wrathful Malignant Monsters or are crafted at Cormond’s Wagon, but the Diablo

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Ubisoft Account Deletion Policy Sparks Backlash, Confusion

A viral tweet about Assassin’s Creed creator Ubisoft’s account deletion policy has ignited some intense conversation online around data collection and game access. Though the company’s policy isn’t new, the wording has left players confused about what the consequences are for having an inactive account. The Yakuza Devs Should Cast These Celebs In Their Next

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I Played The World’s Largest Donkey Kong Arcade Game And Lived

You would never guess it, but The Strong National Museum of Play in the great, gray Rust Belt city of Rochester, New York houses the world’s largest operational Donkey Kong arcade machine. It’s almost 20 feet tall, says a press release from this spring, and intended to act as a “playful, whimsical installation” in a

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Max Payne 3 Mod Finally Restores His Original Face

Image: AlexSavvy If you were feeling nostalgic for old-school Max Payne, the perpetually grimacing star of Remedy’s iconic third-person shooter of the same name, take heart. There’s now a mod for Max Payne 3 that brings back the character’s unforgettable OG face—based on Remedy Creative Director Sam Lake—squint and all. Why The Hot New Redfall

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