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Elden Ring’s Toughest Boss Gets Killed By An IRL Goldfish

Image: FromSoftware I haven’t finished Elden Ring, but now that a goldfish has beaten Malenia, one of the hardest bosses in FromSotware’s latest game, I feel like I have to in order to maintain any modicum of self-respect I have for myself. Diablo IV – Bear Bender Build PointCrow, a streamer on YouTube and Twitch,

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Final Fantasy 16 Finally Lets You Turn Motion Blur Off

Screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku Final Fantasy XVI’s first post-launch update just added one of its most requested features: the option to turn off motion blur. A new toggle in the settings menu will let players make the PlayStation 5 game look less dizzying, a boon to everyone who was getting motion sickness while trying

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Real Madrid & Barcelona’s League Is Now Named After EA Sports

La Liga, Spain’s top flight of professional football and home to some of the world’s biggest clubs—like Barcelona and Real Madrid—has signed a new sponsorship deal that sees its previous branding (“La Liga Santander”) swapped out, with the league now to be known as LALIGA EA SPORTS. Diablo IV – Bear Bender Build Please note

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This Horror Game Gives You A Virtual Girlfriend From Hell

Fairy tales and Drew Barrymore movies taught me that a girl with butterflies in her stomach might be easily inconvenienced by some weird guy (either a literal beast or an everyman who acts like one), but the fluttering is a product of purity, clear like a raindrop. Without a sword or a big-shot career at

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Skyrim Modding Community At War Over AI Deepfake Porn

The Skyrim modding community is currently embroiled in its own deepfake porn controversy, with popular modding site NexusMods and AI voice-cloning technology at its center. Ahead of the release of Bethesda’s upcoming space epic, Starfield, and the belief that the game will be a sort of Eden for the modding community, those against the use

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Hot New Steam Shooter Is Like Battlefield When It Was Good

A simple new low-poly online PvP military shooter that plays a lot like Battlefield 3 and only costs $15 might not seem like the next big thing. But in fact, it is, and after playing it for a week I get why: It’s just a really good shooter focused on gameplay and chaos. Why The

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9 Street Fighter 6 Settings To Change Before Throwing Hands

Street Fighter 6 is a frontrunner for my game of the year, but sometimes it feels like I spend more time fighting with its menus than I do throwing hands with other players online. I’ve put around 80 hours into Capcom’s latest fighter and have dealt with several annoyances just trying to change the smallest

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The Last of Us Dollar Store Knockoff Hits Nintendo Switch

Pictured above: (Not) The Last of UsScreenshot: VG Games / Kotaku The Last of Us and its sequel are blockbuster action-adventure games with incredible graphics and deep narratives. They’re also games that, for a few different reasons, will never officially be playable on Nintendo’s aging Switch console. But don’t worry, you can just play The

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Friday The 13th Unlocks Everything Before Disappearing

Image: Gun Media Friday the 13th: The Game is going away at the end of the year, so in the meantime the developers decided to let players enjoy the asymmetric multiplayer horror chaos with free unlocks and level boosts. The Week In Games: Octopath Dreamland Deluxe The team at Gun Media announced on Twitter on

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The Outer Worlds Was Pitched As A Casual Fallout x Firefly RPG

Image: Obsidian Entertainment If you haven’t been tuning into Fallout creator Tim Cain’s YouTube channel, you are sorely missing out on some fun gaming trivia and insights. Whether it’s the gritty details of how RPG gameplay gets fleshed out or Cain’s own personal experience as a gay dev, the former Obsidian creative is never short

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