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30 Minutes With That New Persona-Inspired Dating Sim

I don’t know about Eternights just yet. I played the opening chapter of Studio Sai’s Persona-influenced action game/dating sim hybrid at Summer Game Fest, and on paper, a game that combines those elements should be my jam. But while what I played demonstrated good foundations and fun ideas, it didn’t make the best case for

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Diablo 4’s Most-Played Class ATM Is The Sorcerer

Illustration: Blizzard It’s been a couple of weeks since Blizzard’s latest ARPG adventure Diablo 4 opened its hell gates to the public. With players cumulatively logging in “over 276 million hours” into the game, it’s always a fun time to look at something everyone loves: stats! Blizzard has some fun facts to share with us

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The New York Times’ Connections Puzzle Seems Awfully Familiar

Last week, the New York Times announced its latest puzzle had gone live for beta testing on its puzzling site. Joining the world famous crossword, and of course Wordle, is Connections. It’s a four-by-four grid of words, that you need to rearrange into four connecting groups. And if you happen to live in the UK,

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Game Pass Title Flintlock The Siege Of Dawn Slips Into 2024

Soulslike fans, looking forward to getting their hands on Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn via Xbox Game Pass, will have to stare far further into the future. The next game from the developers of 2018’s Ashen has now been delayed a full year from its previous “early 2023” release date, to an even more ambiguous

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This Pokémon Quest About A Dying Man Has Fans Shook Years Later

Pokémon games have dealt with death before, but it’s often in subtext. This goes as far back as the original Pokémon Red and Blue, as fans have long speculated that your rival Blue’s Raticate passed away after a rough battle. In recent years, mortality has become a more common theme in Pokémon games. AZ, a

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Colonial Slavery Board Game Being Relaunched For Third Time

The board game Puerto Rico was released in 2002, and while it by all accounts played very well, it was also a deeply colonial game that made light of the fact you were being asked to build a commercial empire large part on the back of slavery. This Lesbian Mafia Anime Might Actually Make You

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Tears Of The Kingdom Duplication Glitch Found

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is a big game set on a huge open world, and its codebase must be straining at all times to keep track of everything that’s going on. Which probably explains why it doesn’t matter how many times Nintendo patches the game to remove a resource glitch, people

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Streamer xQc Signed By Twitch Rival Kick For $100 Million

Twitch’s biggest streamer, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, is signing with the company’s newest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that offers better revenue splits and also appears to be centered around online gambling. The non-exclusive deal is valued at up to $100 million over two years, and is the latest and biggest blow to Twitch as creator

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Diablo 4 Devs Say Future Update Will Fix Annoying Gems

If you’ve been murderin’ your way through dungeons in Diablo IV recently, you’ve likely killed a lot of monsters, found a lot of loot, and also ended up with a half dozen (or more) gems in your inventory taking up space that weapons and armor could occupy. That can be annoying, and some players have

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Kotaku’s Weekend Gaming Guide For June 17, 2023

Diablo IV – Nostrava Stronghold Diablo IV – Nostrava Stronghold Play it on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows (Steam Deck OK) My current goal: Conquer every Stronghold You read that right, on Steam Deck baby! The step-by-step process to get the just-released Diablo IV working on the Deck took me a little

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