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You Can Nab A Tears of the Kingdom $10 Discount Right Now

Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Nintendo’s most expensive game, the first the developer debuted at the (unfortunately) new industry standard price of $70. Now, though, a baked-in Amazon discount lets you buy the game for $60, or the price nearly all Nintendo games retain even several years

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Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Huge Patch Right Before Phantom Liberty DLC

Image: CD Projekt Red Developer CD Projekt Red is still tinkering with Cyberpunk 2077 ahead of DLC Phantom Liberty’s September release. Case in point: The studio dropped a new patch for the open-world sci-fi RPG on June 20, detailing fixes for a number of bugs, including a few that seem to have been around since

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Street Fighter 6’s Lobbies Are Full Of Chaos Freaks, It Rules

Gif: Majin Obama / Capcom / Kotaku Every time I hop into a lobby in Street Fighter 6, it feels like I’m one of the only people who has an avatar that looks just like a regular guy. This game’s character creator is wild, folks. You can create near-perfect recreations of just about anyone, or

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Titanic Submarine Has Everyone Fixed On A Cheap Game Controller

Five people are currently missing after a tourist sub called the Titan tried searching for remains of the HMS Titanic. We don’t yet know why contact was lost, but the emergency search now underway has people pouring over every detail of the OceanGate Expeditions voyage and how the sub for it was built, including the

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Square Enix Re-Releases Game Without Terrible Microtransactions

Image: Square Enix Square Enix’s once-abandoned Chocobo racing game, a Final Fantasy spin-off titled Chocobo GP, has received a second chance at life without all the bad microtransactions, which previously ended up nickle-and-diming players for game features. This Mini Sega Arcade Cabinet Packed With Retro Games Would Make A Great Gift Chocobo GP’s new Nintendo

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Final Fantasy XVI’s Demo Is The Best In Years

Final Fantasy XIV is out on June 22, but you can play the opening prologue for free right now on PlayStation 5. You should. It’s incredible and the only thing I’ve wanted to play since I finished it last week. Grand Theft Auto 6 Comments: A Dramatic Reading I’m the worst type of Final Fantasy

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The Latest Game Pass Titles Are Mostly Hidden Gems

Image: Criterion Games Xbox announced a new wave of subscription service Game Pass titles in a June 20 blog post, and it looks like late June and early July will be stocked with hidden gems. Thank You, PS Plus, For Making My Backlog Even Bigger You can play one of them, Need for Speed Unbound

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Fortnite Twitch Streamer Hits Max Rank By Just Hiding

My fellow slackers, bohemians, and those who’ve made a point of getting through difficult challenges in life by exerting the least amount of effort, I bring you a success story. Recently, a streamer has climbed to the top of Fortnite’s competitive ranks by camping in the bushes and hugging the circle to victory. Dead By

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Amouranth Follows xQc’s Lead And Leaves Twitch

Kaitlyn Siragusa—you’ll recognize her as variety streamer Amouranth—is staking a new claim on livestreaming platform Kick, despite having 6.4 million Twitch followers. Like other streamers fed up with poorly communicated changes around stringent monetization rules and an uncomfortable, confusing 50/50 revenue split on Twitch, she’s willing to take a risk on the unestablished, but potentially

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