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Beloved HQ Trivia Host Scott Rogowsky Leaves The Show
Scott Rogowsky, longtime host of trivia app HQ Trivia, has left the show in favor of hosting a Major League Baseball show, ChangeUp Rogowsky told TMZ, “Nothing in my decade-plus entertainment career has meant more to me personally and professionally than my involvement with HQ.” Rogowsky’s face as host has long been seen as synonymous…
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Moschino Is Releasing A Sims-Inspired Fashion Line And WTF At These Photos
The Sims 4 is collaborating with fashion giant Moschino for a line of Sims-inspired IRL clothing, and the photos they released for it are bugging me out. Ever since irreverent fashion designer Jeremy Scott took over Moschino in 2013, it’s become a wonderland of bright colors, bold graphic prints, and the word “Moschino” in all…
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Hyperbolic Tweet About Game Difficulty Turns Into Wonderful Internet Joke [UPDATE]
When you love something a lot, it can sometimes turn into a kind of passion that is overwhelming to other people. When you express that on the internet, it becomes fodder for jokes. Now, one man’s passion for not cheating in video games has become grist for the internet joke mill. The debate about whether…
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Soon, Your Sims Will Be Able To Be Miserable Freelancers
This month, your Sims will be able to work as freelancers, and upon hearing this news I had a flashback to being broke and drinking beer for the calories. Careers in The Sims 4 are basically just watching your Sim get into a car, go to a location you can’t visit, and then waiting for…
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CJ From Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Fits Perfectly With Everything
Another video game joke is taking over the internet. Ah shit, here we go again. Sometimes weird performances of inconsequential lines can live in your memory forever. To quote James Franco in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, they are so good. One of those, for Grand Theft Auto fans, is CJ’s first lines in the game…
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The Eight Best Dwarf Fortress Stories We’ve Seen
Dwarf Fortress is a game where when things go wrong, you know you’ll have a great story to tell. Because its systems are so intricate and complicated, you’re always hit with multiple problems at once, and sometimes one of those problems is a demon invasion. Players often record their Dwarf Fortress exploits as written stories,…
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CultureWhat We Loved About Shazam
DC Comics’s latest superhero movie, Shazam, really took me and my colleague Mike Fahey by surprise. In world of dour superhero stories, Shazam was a wholesome, feel-good breath of fresh air. Today we sat down to talk about the film, family, and how hilarious it is to see a child in an adult’s body. Gita…
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CultureWhat We Love About Country Trap Banger ‘Old Town Road’
No one, not even rapper Lil Nas X, thought his song “Old Town Road” would blow up the way that it has. After taking over the Hot Country Songs chart, it was removed for not being country enough, though the artist has been campaigning to get it reinstated. Now that he’s dropped a remix with…
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This Phone Game Is All About Summoning Sexy Anime Versions Of Food
One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In…
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The Games This ‘Boy Band’ Makes Are Almost As Cute As They Are
The Sokpop collective, made up of game developers Tijmen, Rob, Aran, and Rubna from the Netherlands, started calling themselves a boy band as a joke, but they didn’t start it. “It was something people joked about at events,” Tijmen told Kotaku, “mainly because of our looks.” Even if it’s kind of a joke, their cute…
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Change To EA’s Community Management Safety Policies Was Badly Needed, Sources Say
The video game giant Electronic Arts says it is improving its systems for elevating safety and harassment issues that emerge from its player communities in order to ensure the company addresses them. The changes have been a long time coming and are desperately needed, sources tell Kotaku “Recently, we’ve updated our escalation procedure for all…
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CultureNew Afro-Futurist RPG Is A Fresh Break From Sci-fi’s Tired Tropes
The art book Kickstarter for Swordsfall, a tabletop roleplaying game set in an Afro-futurist African nation, raised over $64,000 in about 24 hours and cleared its $2,000 goal with ease. Creator Brandon Dixon told Kotaku that he’s not all that surprised by the success of this campaign. He knew that he had something unique, that…
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Horny-Looking Game Actually Just A Series Of Menus
For the past month, every time I’ve logged onto Instagram, I’ve seen an ad for Game Of Sultans. These ads are, in a word, horny. Busty suitors compete for your love and the ability to sire your heir. The ads included flavor text like “my girlfriend’s character is already queen!” Whose girlfriend, you ask? There…
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Sims Players Are Building Adorable Dollhouses
Like any other fandom, the Sims community often gets swept by trends. This time, the new hotness is dollhouses, all inspired by a Simmer on Tumblr called Smart Milk. The results are absolutely adorable. Smart Milk was so inspired by JMW327’s isometric pixel art of bedrooms that she made some cute bedrooms with cutaway walls.…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryDwarf Fortress Has Destroyed My Perception Of Time
This weekend I played Dwarf Fortress until the sun came up. Again. I don’t know why this keeps happening when I play Dwarf Fortress. On Saturday evening, after I got back from my boyfriend’s place and had thrown my laundry in the washing machine, I was alone in my apartment and not in the mood…
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My Sims Won’t Freaking Stay In One Place To Finish A Meal
Where do you eat dinner? At the table? On the couch? In your bed? If you’re a Sim, you eat all of your meals at all three of those places consecutively during the same meal. I’m freaking sick of it. In The Sims 4, Sims refuse to sit and stay seated while they eat. I…
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Apex Legends Players Are Suggesting Improvements For Mirage’s Useless Ultimate Ability
Mirage is my favorite character in Apex Legends. I’ve always loved rakish rogues, and I love Mirage’s snarky sense of humor. He can send out holographic decoys to trick other players, making it much easier to run down enemies before they know what’s hit them. Everything about him rocks, except his ultimate ability, which completely…
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Goat Simulator Developers’ New Game Is About Building The Perfect Factory
The opening track “Ever” on the band Flipper’s classic first album, Album, contains the lyric, “Ever look at a flower, and hate it?” As I was playing Satisfactory, the new game from the developer of Goat Simulator, I realized that lyric pretty much sums up what the game is about. While Goat Simulator was about…
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Xbox Gem Cuphead Is Coming To Switch
Cuphead was one of the best Xbox One and PC side-scrollers of the last few years—and on April 18, it’s coming to Nintendo Switch. Cuphead is a challenging side-scroller where you play as a personified cup going after a gauntlet of deadly and beautifully animated bosses. When it landed on Xbox One and PC in…
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A Letter To The Apex Legends Player I Probably Disappointed
Dear person I played Apex Legends with the other night: I am so sorry. We got off to a rocky start. Our third player disconnected before the match began, so we were a duo in a world of trios. You landed hot, dropping straight into an area with a couple other teams, and I was…
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