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Overwatch 2 fans are suffering because nobody wants to play support

Overwatch 2 fans are suffering because nobody wants to play support

picture: Blizzard/Kotaku/Gemenacom (Shutterstock) Some people surveillance 2 The wait times are getting worse…really bad. And that’s mainly because nobody wants to play support, according to a post on the Blizzard forums with over 450 replies (and about the rest of the internet). Continue reading: Damage-focused Moira Mains Have surveillance 2 Fans bicker over healers, bad ...

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Every game at the event

Every game at the event

screenshot: Disney/Marvel/Kotaku Although it might have felt that way Kind of funny‘s Blessing Adeoye Jr. talked about upcoming games and world premieres at 1.75x speed, Disney and Marvel’s D23 stream event managed to show a few games that weren’t just movie trailers. Here’s everything we’ve seen at Disney and Marvel’s D23 Expo Showcase, ranked by ...

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8 awesome back to school video games to end your summer

8 awesome back to school video games to end your summer

picture: Don’t nod The episodic game life is strangeuses high schooler Max Caulfield’s ability to rewind time to comment on friendship and consequence and the fact that, hey, life is strange. The game reminds me of the Everyman character in the story, the gossip girl Dans the world, the Bilbo Baggins-es meant to represent us ...

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Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands’ new Blightcaller class is kinda weird

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands’ new Blightcaller class is kinda weird

screenshot: transmission For those who love the grind, Tiny Tina’s Wonderland is border areas Heaven. For those who don’t, it’s a solid shooter that lacks the sharp hooks of a true-to-form live-service game. I imagine that dynamic will remain largely the same after the game’s latest expansion, which adds the game’s first new class since ...

From Borderlands to Wonderlands, the best and the worst

From Borderlands to Wonderlands, the best and the worst

screenshot: 2K Zack: Sure it has a really silly name, but I guess pre-sequencel is the hidden gem of the franchise and a game many people skipped over because it felt like filler rather than a real new one border areas Rate. But stop! Don’t miss this adventure. It features some of my favorite playable ...

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Borderlands is celebrating its biggest year yet in 2022

Borderlands is celebrating its biggest year yet in 2022

picture: transmission The revival of a popular spinoff. A film adaptation (whose cast doesn’t make any sense at all). A mainline entry (which, against all odds, feels amazingly fresh). Yes, you can say that with certainty border areas is back and having its best year in a long time. border areas, arguably developer Gearbox’s flagship ...

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The 8 best things of 2021 we can’t live without

The 8 best things of 2021 we can’t live without

photo: Renata Price / Kotaku This is an oversimplification, but Karl Marx argues that factory workers are alienated from the machine they are working on because they do not own it. The mass-produced tool will alienate you from your craft as well. That’s what it’s designed for. Like you, it is supposed to generate the ...

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Zack Zwiezen’s top 10 games in 2021

Zack Zwiezen’s top 10 games in 2021

Well, 2021 was a wild, terrible year. I don’t have to reiterate what made 2021 so bad because by the time you’re reading this you already know. We all live on earth (I suppose) so there’s no point going through it all. Just, yeah, what a shitty year, right? But at least we had some ...