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Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality protections in a totally unsurprising…
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“Report him,” an Overwatch player said over team chat last week, referencing a Twitch streamer who goes by Stevooo.…
On Saturday, players noticed that survival shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds featured cameltoe, or clothed…
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ is on Xbox today. The console’s more casual feel benefits players who prefer a more…
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Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game with a winning premise and perhaps the worst execution of any game I’ve…
Saleem “Salem” Young, who plays the controversial Smash 4 fighter Bayonetta, clinically tore through the game’s top…
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Imagine a 17-year-old gamer tossing a copy of the Teen-rated Star Wars Battlefront 2 onto his local GameStop’s…
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The guy who produced Avatar is adapting the classic manga Battle Angel Alita to the big screen, because that’s…
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Fortnite Battle Royale just got a 50 vs. 50 mode that’s everything I ever wanted a neighborhood game of Cops and…
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If you’re the kind of person who watches WWE matches on 75% speed, WWE 2K18’s Switch version may be for you. For…
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The Secret Lives of Virtual Worlds is a brand new podcast about people’s digital lives in video games and virtual worlds. The first few episodes cover a donkey rancher’s foray into Eve Online piracy and an Arkansas performance artist who streamed Lord of the Rings Online from a crate.
Steam announced today that it will no longer accept Bitcoin, an invisible currency we never knew it had accepted, anyway. Citing Bitcoin’s volatility and increasing processing fees, Steam says Bitcoin is no longer tenable for them as a payment option. Isn’t this the kind of thing it was made for in the first place?
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If Overwatch had a sequel that was just Roadhog grabbing Tracer with his chain hook, I’d pay a whole $40 for it.…
November 22nd should have just been game designer Anthony Gallegos’ birthday. But circumstances were unusual this…
YouTube is taking a tougher stance against “disturbing content,” the company said in a blog post last night. Its CEO announced the company would boost its manual content moderation workforce next year and boasted of its current algorithms’ effectiveness. It’s a crowd-pleasing move for advertisers, and yet, YouTubers… Read more
A few months ago, I proposed a wild idea: Dungeons & Dragons—except you cook what you kill. After a little…
I’m taking over Kotaku’s Twitch channel today along with some rag-tag friends to marathon my favorite local multiplayer games! Tune in from 12:15 to 6:00 for Super Smash Bros 4, Crawl, Starwhal, Mario Kart 8, Nidhogg 2 and more.
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When Victoria Rosenthal started replicating dishes from eat-what-you-kill game Battle Chef Brigade, she had a little…
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Tracking down a play-for-keeps underground Yu-Gi-Oh ring; rescuing a shipping container of helpless anime body…