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Wargaming Stands By Its Kyiv Studio As Its Native Belarus Moves Against Ukraine

Wargaming is throwing its support behind the Kyiv studio in a moment of political treachery

David Smith

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Elden Ring's Dirty Messages Are My Favorite, Because I'm 12

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Everything You Need To Know About Horizon Zero Dawn’s Story Before You Play Forbidden West

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Gabe Newell’s Problem Isn’t With NFTs Or Metaverse, But The ‘Bad Actors’ Behind Them

Ruby Innes

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Anime Voice Acting While Black: Overcoming Hate While Living The Dream

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Elden Ring Mod Lets You Pause The Game

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Elden Ring Players Keep Owning Each Other About Being 'Maidenless'

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'Ghost Of Kyiv' Fighter Pilot Blowing Up Russian Aircraft In Trending Clip Actually From Video Game

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Robert Pattison Is Still Caught Up On Tifa Vs. Aerith In Final Fantasy

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CSGO Pro Loses Tournament, Gives $33K To The Ukrainian Army Like A Champ Anyway

Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev gave an emotional speech at IEM Katowice tournament

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Grim Dawn Creators Announce City Builder, Farthest Frontier

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Kotaku Game Diary

I'm Already Cheesing Elden Ring Enemies And I Feel Zero Shame

FromSoftware made Stormveil Castle a slog, so I did what I had to do

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With Wordle Archive, You Can Play All The Wordles That Came Before Whenever You Want

Wordle Archive allows you to pick any previous puzzle since it started 230 days ago

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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Announced, Series First True Open World

Game Freak is making the Nintendo Switch games in late 2022, and generation 9 sports new graphics

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Why Some Fans Might Dislike Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's New Trainer Designs

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Every Confirmed Pokémon In Scarlet And Violet So Far

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SNL Showed A Perfect World Where Pokémon Control The White House

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Videos

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Breaking Down The Best Easter Eggs From Acura's Original Anime Series

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Fortnite's Klombos Are Majestic Beasts

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It Takes Two Achieves Near-Perfect Design Harmony

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Impressions: Forza Horizon 5

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What's a Kotaku? Who Works Here?

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Welcome To The Last Generation, A Look Back At Seven Years Of Video Games

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Hello Kotaku, It's Me, Your New EIC

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Microsoft Closing In On $70 Billion Deal To Buy Activision Blizzard

The Xbox owner is close to buying the beleaguered Call Of Duty publisher

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Report: Bobby Kotick Is Still Trying To Hide The Scale Of Activision's Problems

Head Of Microsoft Says He’s ‘Grateful’ For Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's 'Commitment to Real Change'

Microsoft won't confirm whether it will keep the Activision Blizzard CEO once the nearly $70 billion deal goes through

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The studios behind World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Overwatch are being sued over sexual harassment

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There’s much more to a monopoly than simply buying up the competition

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Longtime Blizzard Employee Spouted Hateful Garbage On Discord Server

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Activision Blizzard Devs Announce Strike Fund To Support Work Stoppage

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Call of Duty Studio Vaguely Promises To Do Better A Month After Sexual Harassment Report

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Culture

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Elden Ring Mod Lets You Pause The Game

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Big Wings

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Elden Ring's Dirty Messages Are My Favorite, Because I'm 12

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SNL Showed A Perfect World Where Pokémon Control The White House

Reviews

12 Best Games for Every Platform

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The 19 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch

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The 15 Best Games on PC

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The Best Games For The Game Boy Advance

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The 12 Best Games on PlayStation Now

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The 21 Best Games On Xbox Game Pass

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The Best Dreamcast Games

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Year in Review

Speedrunning

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Mario Odyssey Speedrunner Completes Absurd, Nearly Unplayable ‘HUD Challenge’

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Nine Months Later, Breath of the Wild Player Is First To Collect 'Impossible' Arrow

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Wiz Completes Each Level In One Enormous Combo

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Meet The ‘Lesbian Skip,’ An Essential Deltarune Speedrunning Strat

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Twitch

Kotaku East

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The 2022 Tokyo Game Show Will Be Held In-Person

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Anti-Mask And Anti-Vax Cosplayer Has A Change Of Heart

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Popular Virtual YouTuber's Contract Terminated For Allegedly Leaking Private Info

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Take The Day Off To Play Elden Ring, Says Japanese Game Studio

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Fine Art

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The Anakin Meme Looks Better In 3D, Right? Right?

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The Art Of OlliOlli World

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What's Old Is New Again

Board Games

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Company Of Heroes: The Kotaku Review

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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Of Venice: The Kotaku Review

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Who Goes There?: The Kotaku Review

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Playing Pandemic Legacy In 2021 Was Not The Best Time

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Anime

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Anime Voice Acting While Black: Overcoming Hate While Living The Dream

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Kotaku's Three Episode Test: Tokyo 24th Ward

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Kotaku’s 3-Episode Anime Test: My Dress Up Darling

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Gundam Anime Studio Is Changing Its Official Name

Cosplay