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The Steam Deck Had A Phenomenal First Year

With performance that often exceeds expectations, great availability, and a remarkable selection of games, 2022 was nothing short of explosive for Steam Deck

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High On Life: The Kotaku Review

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Epic Is Cutting The Servers For 17 Older Online Games

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Artists Protest After ArtStation Features AI-Generated Images [Update]

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Sonic Prime's Lead Voice Actor On Bringing Swagger To The Iconic Role

Does Gotham Knights’ Nightwing Have A Booty? An Investigation

Chainsaw Man's English-Language Cast Weighs In: Subs Vs. Dubs

This Mini Sega Arcade Cabinet Packed With Retro Games Would Make A Great Gift

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Zadro Large Hot Towel Warmer Bucket

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Activision Nickel-And-Dimes New Union As Call Of Duty Enjoys $800 Million Weekend

Activision refused to pay on-the-clock employees for any time spent in negotiations

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Former Nintendo Worker Wants Company President To Apologize After Alleged Firing [Update]

Activision's Newest Exec Has Decided To Post Through It

After being accused of union busting in the Call of Duty company’s Slack, Lulu Cheng Meservey doubles down

Demolition Sim Hardspace: Shipbreaker Devs Join A Labor Union

Anemone Hug recently voted to join the The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

Activision Blizzard Workers Walk Out Over Lack Of Roe v. Wade Support

Employees are demanding protections from the Call of Duty publisher after the fall of Roe v. Wade

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Firing 11,000 After Company Spends $15B On Metaverse

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Blizzard's Diablo IV Testers Defeat Activision, Can Now Vote To Form Union [Update: Activision Still Trying To Stop The Vote]

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Fired Smash Bros. Ultimate Tester Will Get $25,000 In Nintendo Union-Busting Settlement

Culture

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ArtStation Responds To AI Controversy, Makes Things Worse

The site had a chance to listen to its community and screwed it up

You Can Finally Pet Your Horse In The Witcher 3

Call Of Duty: Season One Update Introduces Raids, Soccer, And A New Map

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Amazon Confirms It’s Making A God Of War TV Show

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12 Best Games for Every Platform

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The 18 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch

From Pokémon Arceus to Animal Crossing, here are our favorite Switch games

October 5, 2022

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The 18 Best PC Games To Download In 2022 For Steam And Beyond

October 20, 2022

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The Best Games For The Game Boy Advance

May 12, 2020

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The 12 Best Games on PlayStation Now

October 9, 2020

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The 24 Best Games On Xbox Game Pass

April 13, 2022

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The Best Dreamcast Games

April 10, 2022

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Speedrunning

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Sekiro God's No-Damage Run Was Three Years In Making

YouTuber TheUrbanOrb studied for over 4,000 hours to destroy FromSoftware’s ninja game

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Only A Computer Could Do This Super Mario Bros. Trick—Until Now

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Elden Ring Speedrunner Decides Eyes Are OP, Beats Bosses While Blindfolded

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Elden Ring Beaten In 20 Minutes With Ridiculous Teleporting Glitch

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Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin Is Getting Its Own Sake

This is one of the best Japanese booze collabs to date

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Razer's Headquarters Looks Like One Of Its Gaming Peripherals

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Manga Publisher Shueisha Establishes Game Company

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Making Your Own Kaneda Bike From Akira Seems Hard

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Fine Art

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Lunch Break

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The Human Body Is A Wonderful Thing

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Grand (Fantasy) Designs

Board Games

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My Favorite WW2 Board Game Just Keeps Getting Better

V-Sabotage, formerly V-Commandos, is swapping out cardboard tokens for plastic soldiers

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This Tabletop Horror RPG Will Have You Putting Away D&D

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Space Race: The Kotaku Review

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Company Of Heroes: The Kotaku Review

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Anime

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Netflix Is Working On A Live-Action My Hero Academia Movie

The movie will be in the hands of the live-action Inuyashiki and I Am A Hero director

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Netflix Removed A Fan-Favorite JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Scene To Avoid Disney’s Lawyers

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Anime Fans Still Love Attack On Titan Creator Despite The Series' Ending

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This Sports Anime Is Captain Tsubasa Meets Squid Game

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