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Overwatch 2's New Tank Hero Is Every Reinhardt Player's Worst Nightmare

What makes Ramattra a game-changer in Overwatch 2? Nanomachines, son

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Report: Microsoft To Offer Sony 10 Years Of Call Of Duty To Close Activision Deal [Update]

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Welp, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Players Found A Way To Kiss Their Monsters

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NFL Team Does A Lot Of GTA Online Roleplay Together

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The Week In Games: Midnight Protocols

Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s ‘Free Exploration’ Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

This Sports Anime Is Captain Tsubasa Meets Squid Game

My Favorite Bayonetta 3 Weapons Were Its Most Absurd Ones (Naturally)

The Week In Games: When The West Was Evil

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Best Early Cyber Monday Deals of the Day: Microsoft Office Lifetime...

Check out the best deals of the day for Monday, November 28, 2022.

Xbox Series S - Cheapest Ever

Xbox Series S - Cheapest Ever

Clip the coupon and get $40 credit to Amazon when you buy this Xbox Series S.

Meta Quest 2 + Resident Evil 4 + Beat Saber

Meta Quest 2 + Resident Evil 4 + Beat Saber

Resident Evil 4 is the classic GameCube single-player title but now with a VR spin to it and Beat Saber is one of the essential games to have on VR—especially when having folks over to try it out.

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Year in Review

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The Best Games Of 2022 (So Far)

From critical darlings like Pentiment to mega-hits like God of War Ragnarök, 2022 has provided no shortage of terrific games for players of all tastes

Game Tips & Guides

Game Labor

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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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Kickstarter Cancelled In The Most Brutally Honest Way Possible

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park was going to be a video game, until it wasn't

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Loot Boxes Would Be For Adults Only If Australian Bill Passes

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NFL Team Does A Lot Of GTA Online Roleplay Together

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Yakuza's Cabaret Minigame Is Making A Triumphant Return

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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

Year in Review

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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Kotaku East

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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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Grand (Fantasy) Designs

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The Art Of Victoria 3

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Tetsuo? Yes, That Was My Name...

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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This Sports Anime Is Captain Tsubasa Meets Squid Game

Blue Lock follows the cutthroat training program for selecting Japan’s star striker of the future

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This Rooster Manga Is The Perfect Thanksgiving Read

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Chainsaw Man Creator Accidentally Got His Twitter Account Banned

The Tough, Gritty Journey To Become Chainsaw Man's Denji

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