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RoboCop: Rogue City: The Kotaku Review
For years and years, video games—especially shooters—have gotten faster and faster. RoboCop: Rogue City, out now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC (see on Amazon), bucks this trend and puts you in the clunky, lumbering metal boots of RoboCop himself. But the real surprise isn’t how much fun it is to be a slow-walking tank,…
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TC+ Roundup: Many Black founders are rooting for SVB
Good morning! Before being known as the bank that collapsed, Silicon Valley Blank made a name for itself as a bank that helps support underrepresented founders. Eight months […]
There’s A New Subscriber-Funded Game Website Called Aftermath
So many great video game websites have died, it’s nice to finally see some new ones being born. The latest is called Aftermath, a subscriber-funded venture by former Kotaku staffers. Full disclosure: I worked with all of these people for years and they are amazing.
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The Best, Biggest, And Wildest Moments In Call of Duty History
This year, the Call of Duty series turns 20. Few video game franchises are as popular or successful as Activision’s yearly war shooter series. Even if you don’t like the games or stopped playing them years ago, millions of people around the world continue to buy and play each new entry—and it’s not just because of its…
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Alan Wake 2: The Kotaku Review
I put off writing this Alan Wake 2 review because I was scared. Scared that I’d look into myself and find I wasn’t up to the task, that I lacked the right words, with nothing to offer but emptiness and failure. It’s not at all uncommon, though, for writers to be wracked with doubt. Many years ago, I saw the novelist…
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The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Franchise, Explained
The Call of Duty franchise has continually set sales records and delivered rock-solid multiplayer experiences, almost single handedly carrying the first-person shooter genre into the modern era. It remains a crucial pillar in the gaming industry, so much so that Sony and Microsoft were fighting over it in the lead-up…
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