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PUBG Players Say They Fell Madly In Love Only To End Up In Jail

Two PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) players could face several years in prison for illegally crossing some South Asian borders to live together, according to a recent New York Times report. The Week In Games: High On Witchcraft Seema Ghulam Haider is a 27-year-old Pakistani Muslim with four children. She met Sachin Meena, a 22-year-old Hindu man,

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Xbox Brings Pass $1 Game Pass Ultimate Deal That You Should Cop

Image: Microsoft If you’ve never tried Game Pass Ultimate before, now’s a good time. The Netflix-like subscription service’s $1 deal is back, letting first-time players sign up for basically nothing. Thank You, PS Plus, For Making My Backlog Even Bigger Those on Xbox Series X/S can upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate for just $1 for

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10 Things You Should Never Say To A Genshin Impact player

Image: HoYoverse The Genshin Impact community is no stranger to navigating choppy waters, whether it’s discussions about farming, characters and their voice actors, or even the genre of game itself. If you want to survive out there, you’ll want to avoid some sore subjects to avoid facing wrath or disappointment. Here are some things you

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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games To Get Lost In

Well. What a week it’s been, huh? I don’t know about you, but I could definitely go for some good times mashing buttons to a moving image—especially since I basically threw out my neck and destroyed my voice at that Cynic concert last night; I ain’t goin’ anywhere for a couple of days, so I

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Street Fighter 6 Features The Best Chun-Li In 24 Years

There’s a lot to love in Street Fighter 6, one of the best games I’ve played in the last couple of years. I love the new characters. (Marisa, the jacked up pankratiast, is my main, and Manon, the supermodel ballerina, is my secondary.) I love the new Drive Impact attack, which lets you reverse the

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Sega Bins Blockchain, NFT Plans, Calls F2P Games ‘Boring’

In April 2021, at the height of Web 3 Mania, Sega was one of the biggest companies to pledge its future to the scam that was “play to earn”. Now, just two years later and after the ass has completely fallen out of that market, Sega has had a change of heart. This Mini Sega

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It Is 2023, Please Stop Blowing Saliva Into Nintendo Consoles

Image: Nintendo Yeah, it’s cute, it’s folklore, people used to blow into the cartridge slots of their Nintendo games in the olden days if they were having hardware issues. The thing is, it was all bullshit. It didn’t fix them, if anything it made things worse. Yet so strong has the urban legend become that,

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Diablo’s First New Class In 9 Years Is A Vampire Knight

On July 6, Blizzard announced the first new Diablo class in almost a decade, confirming that a vampire-themed Blood Knight class will be coming to mobile spin-off Diablo Immortal on July 13. This is the first new class introduced in the franchise since 2014, when the Crusader was added in Diablo III’s first expansion: Reaper

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Influencers’ Best Show Recs, Including NSFW Ones

Much like how stand users in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are drawn to one another, I found myself pulled into the orbit of a few popular Black anime content creators while traversing the convention floor of Anime Expo 2023, the self-described largest anime convention in the U.S. Specifically, I ran into anime influencers and content creators

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10 Things You Should Never Say To An Overwatch Player

Image: Blizzard Like many insults hurled in Overwatch 2’s in-game text or voice chat, this one can be quite the compliment, as well. “Diff” just means “difference” or “differential” and it speaks to a clear chasm between roles or characters. If each team has a Mercy, but one is significantly out-healing the other, then there’s

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