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CultureFallout 76 Devs Want To Add Pets To The Game
The dream of having a pet Deathclaw to cuddle with on cold Appalachia nights could soon be a reality Fallout 76‘s developers did an AMA on Reddit yesterday addressing all sorts of questions about the game and its future. While some things, like expanded camp building budgets and additional NPCs, could be a ways off,…
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CultureBungie’s Working To Get Rid Of Destiny 2 Cheaters And Make Trials Of Osiris More Rewarding
It’s been great finally having Destiny’s top-tier competitive activity Trials of Osiris back in the game, but the mode’s return has been marred by stingy prizes and thousands of cheaters. Bungie now says it’s working on addressing both of these shortcomings. “Cheating in Destiny 2 is up roughly 50 percent since January, and significantly more…
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CultureWWE 2K Is Skipping 2020 [Update: 2K Says More Details Coming Next Week]
If you’re still holding your breath for WWE 2K21 this year, exhale. WWE has announced that 2K Games will not be releasing a new installment of their annual wrestling series in 2020. During a call with investors, WWE interim chief financial officer Frank Riddick responded to a question about the release of WWE 2K21 by…
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CultureBinding Of Isaac Mod Helps Woman Propose To Her Significant Other
I’ve never proposed to anybody, but I can imagine it would be pretty anxiety-provoking. I totally understand why some folks prefer to let their favorite video games do the talking. Last week, an Australian woman sat her significant other down to play a modded version of The Binding of Isaac that included a special marriage…
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CultureRed Dead Redemption 2 Comes To Game Pass
Red Dead Redemption 2 goes free to download as part of Xbox Game Pass starting May 7. The blockbuster western, which former Kotaku editor Kirk Hamilton called “exhaustively detailed and exhaustingly beautiful” in his review, is the latest in a series of big games that have recently come to Microsoft’s subscription-based download library. The Witcher…
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CultureStop Killing This Poor Fallout 76 Radstag
There’s a new mutant in town, and it’ll lead you to treasure if you’re not a sociopath. If you’ve been playing Fallout 76 since last week’s Wastelanders update went live you may have run into a new type of irradiated deer called an Observant Radstag. It’s friendly and won’t attack you. That hasn’t stopped many…
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CultureNintendo Slashes Interest Rates In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing’s latest update cuts the amount of money players can earn just by letting all of their bells sit in the bank, a lesson to all you hoarders out there to get out and spend. The news came by way of a letter from Tom Nook. It was waiting in players’ mailboxes following last…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryWhen Final Fantasy VII Remake Broke My Heart, Chasing A Pig Proved Strangely Therapeutic
I recently hit an emotional low point with Final Fantasy VII Remake. It was hard to watch my favorite side characters suffer and Avalanche members Tifa and Barret grapple with their culpability in Shinra’s latest attack. I even took a day off to decompress. When I returned, however, I was greeted by a ridiculous mission…
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CultureBugged Fallout 76 NPCs Are Looting Some Players’ Corpses
Sharing is caring, right? At least it is when the person you lend your stuff to eventually gives it back. Some of Fallout 76’s newly added NPCs aren’t doing that, though. Thanks to a bug, they can occasionally nab your prized loot when you die and keep it for themselves. “I was playing the riding…
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