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Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Spooky Fish Is Already My Favorite New Pokémon

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 09:45 AM PDT

Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes the series in a new direction with stuff like more open-world exploration, crafting, and mounts. But more importantly, a new game means a new generation of Pokémon, and today Arceus showed off my new favorite: a haunted fish called Basculegion.

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Boyfriend Dungeon Is Being Subjected To Tumblr's Messiest Death Throes

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT

There is a shithead at the heart of Boyfriend Dungeon. He is terrible, well-depicted, and this piece is not about him. This piece is, instead, about everything hanging in the air around him.

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Street Fighter Player Daigo Umehara Found The Arcade Where He Got Beat Up

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 08:45 AM PDT

When Daigo Umehara was 13, the then-future Street Fighter champion got beat up by a rival player for being too good. Now, decades later, Umehara has tracked down the arcade where it went down, thanks to the magic of Google Maps.

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New Pokémon Edition Nintendo Switch Lite Is A Subtle Callback

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 08:30 AM PDT

The Nintendo Switch Lite gets yet another Pokémon themed console. This time, it's to mark the upcoming November release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, with a familiar design featuring Dialga and Palkia.

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I Need To Tell You About This Pokémon Exec's Shirt Right Now

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 08:15 AM PDT

Kotaku is no stranger to discussing fashion, and so I am proud to uphold this storied tradition. Gamers do not know how to dress themselves, this much is well known. Standard press conference fare, even from executives, is a graphic tee and blazer combo that leaves much to be desired. Sure, it's an extra marketing…

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Pokémon Sleep Is Still Missing In Action

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Back in 2019, the internet was all sorts of excited by the announcement of mobile game/sleep monitor Pokémon Sleep. But despite a 2020 release date, not a single word had been heard about it since, leaving many to assume it had been abandoned. Then, yesterday, someone noticed its trademark had been updated, leading to…

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus Is Looking Less Rough

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 07:45 AM PDT

We got a second, much more in-depth look at Pokémon Legends: Arceus today, and the most ambitious Pokémon game to-date looks to be running a lot smoother than when it was originally revealed earlier this year.

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Here's What You'll Actually Do In Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 06:35 AM PDT

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is set to break all sorts of new ground. In a first for the Pokémon series, it's an open-world action role-playing game set in the distant past of the Sinnoh Region. But while we know the January 28 release date, we don't know much about how this strange new Pokémon game works. Now we know a…

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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Three Entirely New Things For The Remake

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 06:21 AM PDT

At today's Pokémon Presents showcase, trainers got another look at the upcoming Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes. We already knew they'd be newer-looking than the originals (obviously). But these aren't just pixel-for-pixel remakes.

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Pokemon Unite's Mobile Launch Has Goodies For Switch Players

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 06:11 AM PDT

Pokémon Unite will come to mobile on September 22, and it will offer crossplay with the Nintendo Switch version. The MOBA also adds Mamoswine and Sylveon and gifts for trainers.

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World Of Warships Players Are In Open Revolt Over Shady Monetisation Schemes

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 07:00 PM PDT

Free online wargame World of Warships has been on thin ice with its community for a while now, but recent events—including the botched return of a fan-favourite ship—have seen many of the community's biggest names quit the game's official community program.

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Humankind: The Kotaku Review

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 05:00 PM PDT

The Civilization series has been around for—I'm sorry to have to do this to you—30 years now. It helped create a genre and has remained undefeated in it for that entire time. But as we march through the 21st century, there are hints that with the sixth game the Civ formula has got a little stale. Enter Amplitude and…

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Ubisoft Studio Under Investigation Over Sexual Harassment, Workplace Discrimination Reports

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT

The Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP), Singapore's national workplace watchdog, has launched an investigation into Ubisoft's local studio following allegations of sexual harassment and workplace discrimination.

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Among Us Devs Aren't Feeling Fortnite’s New ‘Impostors’ Mode [Updated]

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 03:30 PM PDT

Epic Games added a new game mode to Fortnite today that sounds suspiciously like indie hit Among Us, right down to the terminology used for its antagonists.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Stream Leaves Fans Unimpressed

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Earlier today, a handful of Cyberpunk 2077 devs jumped on CD Projekt Red's official Twitch channel to provide an overview of the game's upcoming 1.3 patch and the new in-game content the studio plans to make freely available to everyone who downloads it. Like most things having to do with the notoriously broken game,…

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A Rogue Bee Kept Breaking Skyrim's Iconic Cart Intro

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:10 PM PDT

No matter how many times you've watched Skyrim's opening cart scene, you probably still haven't seen it as much as Nate Purkeypile has. That's because back during production a mysterious entity kept throwing the cart off course and the developers couldn't figure out why. The mysterious culprit? A bee.

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Millions Of Players Later, Outriders Devs Still Waiting For Money

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 01:45 PM PDT

By the numbers, Outriders is one of the year's big success stories. And yet, developer People Can Fly apparently hasn't received any royalties from Square Enix, the loot-shooter's publisher. As reported by VGC, People Can Fly wrote in an investor note that "this probably means that, in Square Enix's opinion, [Outriders

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