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Marvel's Avengers Has An Avengers-Level 'Workaround' For A PS5 Crash

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 05:20 PM PDT

Anyone still playing Marvel's Avengers on PS5 over the last few days may have run into an issue where the game crashes. If that's you, as of today there is a "workaround". It's just a rather drastic one.

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Call Of Duty Cheat Caught Hacking While Trying To Show He Wasn't Hacking

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 04:20 PM PDT

In a recent tournament match, a Call of Duty: Vanguard player was accused of cheating. In an attempt to clear his name, the player shared off-screen footage of his gameplay, in which you could clearly see...that he was cheating.

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7 Possible Berserk References In Elden Ring

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 02:50 PM PDT

FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki's love for the late Kentaro Miura's manga and anime series Berserk is the worst kept secret in the gaming industry. While he avoids explicitly discussing the connections between his games and Berserk, it's clear that every Miyazaki-helmed project since 2009's Demon's Souls has…

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World of Warcraft Streamer Has Been Celebrating Her 80th Birthday On Twitch For 12 Days (And Counting)

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 12:30 PM PDT

Twitch can often be a cesspit of awfulness. If it's not one streamer getting swatted or another streamer getting accused of misogyny, then it's potential litigation between big-name broadcasters (that ultimately fizzled into nothing). But there is some good on the platform, too. One such example is WowGrandma78, a…

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Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Is Actually Twice As Fun On The Highest Difficulty

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 11:30 AM PDT

Borderlands games aren't exactly known for being challenging. Even if you turned up the heat, you wouldn't get a tougher game. You'd just get a more arduous one, the many bullet sponges simply becoming bullet-spongier. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands does away with all that by including an actually interesting wrinkle to its…

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Fortnite's Getting Sued By Dance Choreographer Who's Worked With Bieber, Britney

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 11:15 AM PDT

On March 29, lawyers representing choreographer Kyle Hanagami sued Epic Games for copyright infringement over the "It's Complicated" dance emote in Fortnite. The in-game emote begins with movements which Hanagami's lawyers allege are lifted from copyrighted dance moves created by the choreographer. The lawsuit was…

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A Stunning Southern Dystopia Is One Of The Best-Written Games Of The Year

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 11:04 AM PDT

The unnerving tone of Geography Of Robot's Southern Gothic point-n-click adventure Norco fascinates me. Its conflation of a recognisable 21st-century Louisiana, and dystopian science fiction, creates an oppressive darkness that weighs on my mind as I click through the game's "mind-map" menu, where memories and ideas…

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Big Horizon Forbidden West Patch Makes The Game Less Shimmery

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 09:25 AM PDT

Developer Guerrilla Games has rolled out a massive patch for Horizon Forbidden West, purporting to fix more than a dozen quests, plus a litany of minor hiccups. It also aims to make the game less shimmery. Those who made it through the era of puddlegate unscathed should rejoice.

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Anno: Mutationem: The Kotaku Review

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 08:55 AM PDT

Anno: Mutationem is an overly ambitious love letter with one too many recipients. While the game has an interesting gumbo of ideas, its story buckles under the weight of living up to the very properties it attempts to pay tribute to. Ultimately, Mutationem's ending fails to deliver a satisfying or cohesive pursuit of…

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One Big Reason Sony’s Revamped PS Plus Isn’t Just Another Game Pass

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PDT

Elden Ring, One Month Later

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 06:45 AM PDT

It feels like just yesterday FromSoftware fans were worried they were going to die before Elden Ring arrived, and now we're an entire month removed from its launch. In that time, dedicated players have eagerly explored every inch of this massive game, resulting in a lot of great coverage here on Kotaku dot com.

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The Traditional Beauty Of Nintendo's Playing Cards

Posted: 30 Mar 2022 03:00 AM PDT

In the late 19th century, Nintendo got its start making another type of game: playing cards. The company continues to make cards, and whether it's the ones from past or today, the decks show off the beauty of Japan.

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Enjoying The View

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 07:23 PM PDT

Louis Laurent is an artist at Framestore, a studio that has worked on movies like No Time To Die, the upcoming Dr Strange sequel and Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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Battlefield 2042's Maps, Ranked

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 05:30 PM PDT

Hi, yes, it's me again, one of the 14 people on Earth who enjoy playing Battlefield 2042. As I enter my sixth month of playing the game, and as I approach the game's level cap, I've found my attention of late turning towards the finer details of the game's maps, and which ones I prefer playing.

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War Game Disables In-Game Chat Over 'Political' Concerns

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 04:35 PM PDT

War Thunder is a multiplayer combat game on PC and consoles that lets players take control of tanks, ships and aircraft from various time periods and just go at it. And like many other games of this type—World of Tanks and Warships in particular—the in-game chat experience can sometimes be dreadful.

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Valorant Devs Explain Why New Skins Take So Long

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 03:20 PM PDT

On March 23, Matthew Hagg, a professional Call of Duty player known as Nadeshot, expressed disappointment in a viral tweet that a new skin bundle for a weapon in the first-person shooter Valorant didn't have a ton of alternate colors and special effects. He noted that the new cosmetics had "so much potential" but were…

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Loop Hero's Developers Tell Russian Players To Pirate Their Game

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 03:00 PM PDT

Four Quarters, the developer behind the highly regarded deck-building roguelike Loop Hero, is encouraging players to pirate its game if they can't find any legal means of purchasing it amid the ongoing sanctions placed on Russia after its military invasion of Ukraine.

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Ghostwire: Tokyo Has One Of The Coolest Healing Systems In Open-World Games

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 02:40 PM PDT

Ghostwire: Tokyo, the cool new Tango Gameworks project about chatting up spirits and fighting ghastly humanoids, has managed to pull me away from Elden Ring. It's a nice reprieve. Ghostwire is nowhere near as hard as FromSoftware's latest Souls-like. So rather than roaming a vast, haunting open world and getting…

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The New PS Plus Isn’t Game Pass, But That’s OK

Posted: 29 Mar 2022 01:25 PM PDT

This morning, Sony finally unveiled its games-on-demand service in a blog post with more asterisks than the lease on your first apartment.. It's a revamp of PS Plus called… [drum roll] wait for it… [another drum roll] PS Plus.

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