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IGN Boss Leaving After Six Years Following Latest Mass Layoff Games media veteran John Davison got his start at PC Zone and EGM back in the late '90s

IGN publisher John Davison is leaving the site at the end of the month https://kotaku.com/ign-john-davison-ziff-davis-layoffs-union-games-media-2000616972

League Of Legends Dev Sends Banned Player McDonald's Job Application Riot's director of product didn't hold back online when angry players yelled at him about a new crackdown on alt account abuse

League Of Legends Dev Sends McDonald's Jobs Link To Player Who Boosts Accounts For A Living https://kotaku.com/league-of-legends-mcdonalds-job-application-boosting-smurfing-dev-riot-games-2000616955

ChatGPT Just Became A Live-Service Game OpenAI is reckoning with the wrath of fans for the first time

OpenAI tries to explain why it just pissed all of its fans off with GPT-5 as it gets the live service gaming treatment https://kotaku.com/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-gpt-5-world-warcraft-destiny-2000616944

Rumored $1,000 Lego Death Star Set Leaks Online The leaked set is rumored to be arriving in October and might be the most expensive Lego set ever sold

Rumored $1,000 Lego Star Wars Death Star Set Leaks Online:
https://kotaku.com/death-star-lego-set-big-1000-expensive-leak-images-star-wars-2000616943

Thousands Of Dollars Of Labubu Dolls Stolen During Robbery The store's owner says that around $30,000 worth of inventory–including many, many Labubu dolls–were stolen earlier this month

Thousands Of Dollars' Worth Of Labubu Dolls Were Stolen During A Late-Night Robbery
https://kotaku.com/thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-labubu-dolls-were-stolen-during-a-late-night-robbery-2000616924

Overwatch 2 Goes Full Avatar With Waterbender-Style Hero Wuyang comes from a long line of fire wielders, but he’s taking up water instead

Overwatch 2 Goes Full Avatar: The Last Airbender With Its New Waterbender-Style Hero:

Platform-Puzzler Ooo Is A Stunningly Inventive Metroidvania Öoo is a puzzle-platformer that gives you all the tools to progress, then teaches you how to use them

Platform-Puzzler Ooo Is A Stunningly Inventive Metroidvania https://kotaku.com/ooo-review-metroidvania-puzzle-platformer-nama-takahashi-2000616880

Mafia: The Old Country Doesn't Have Swimming And That's Great Sometimes cutting superfluous features is the right thing to do

Mafia: The Old Country Doesn't Have Swimming And That's Great https://kotaku.com/mafia-4-old-country-swimming-open-world-baldurs-gate-2000616867

Warner Bros. Was Not Messing Around This Summer Weapons just helped Warner Bros. overtake two Disney movies and continued the studio's impressive box office streak

WB Is On A Box Office Hot Streak Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

https://kotaku.com/wb-warner-bros-streak-weapons-box-office-record-opening-weekend-minecraft-2000616900

Umamusume Fans' Tribute To Deceased Horse Doesn't Go As Planned The fan-led effort was well-intentioned, but accidentally ended up using AI-generated art

Umamusume Fans' Tribute To Deceased Horse Doesn't Go As Planned https://kotaku.com/umamusume-pretty-derby-grass-wonder-death-tribute-art-2000616912

Far Cry FX Show From It's Always Sunny And Fargo Guys Leaks Rob Mac is adapting the Ubisoft series for FX according to a recent leak

Far Cry FX Show From It's Always Sunny And Fargo Guys Leaks https://kotaku.com/far-cry-fx-tv-fargo-alien-earth-ubisoft-always-sunny-2000616856

What The Hell Is Going On With Video Game Disc Cases Plus: Samoa Joe reviews Battlefield 6's open beta, news on the next Resident Evil movie, a cool indie RPG that looks like Persona gets a release date, and Spider-Man!

What The Hell Is Going On With Video Game Disc Cases? https://kotaku.com/video-game-cases-loose-discs-bf6-resident-evil-persona-spider-man-news-2000616874

Switch 2 Fans Debate The Best Way To Play Its New Exclusive Fans are buzzing about Drag x Drive: 'I bet jeans will become the meta'

PSA: Wash your jeans before you start playing Drag x Drive:

Dragon Age: Champions Trilogy Remaster Was Turned Down By EA The ‘soft pitch’ for Dragon Age: The Champions Trilogy never got off the ground

Dragon Age: Champions Trilogy Remaster Was Turned Down By EA https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-champions-remaster-origins-2-inquisition-2000616855

McDonald's Pokémon Promotion Ends In Utter Chaos The Japanese Happy Meal sold out in its first day, largely thanks to scalpers

McDonald's Pokémon Promotion Ends In Utter Chaos https://kotaku.com/mcdonalds-pokemon-tcg-happy-meal-chaos-2000616843

Metal Gear Online Was A Stealthy And Silly Good Time The upcoming remake of Snake Eater is expected to receive an online mode later this year

Remembering Metal Gear Online, A Silly And Wonderful Stealth Experience

Earthion And 3 Other Great Games We Can’t Wait To Get Back To This weekend we’ve got a game you can knock out in an hour, a brand new shmup, a classic RPG, and some more stealthy shenanigans

In this week's weekend guide, we recommend a mysterious new narrative game, a brand new Genesis shmup, a SNES RPG classic, and a killer enhancement mod for a stealth classic:

We Are Likely Going To Get A Game Changer Video Game Dropout CEO and Game Changer host Sam Reich told Kotaku that he has ideas for a video game

We Are Likely Going To Get A Game Changer Or Dimension 20 Video Game
https://kotaku.com/game-changer-dropout-video-game-sam-reich-interview-dimension-20-2000616708

AI Made A Viral Clip Of An RPG But Can't Make The Game Itself An AI-generated clip of an old-school first-person RPG is too hard for AI to make into an actual game

Guy who used AI to make RPG pixel art go viral wants to turn it into an actual game but doesn't know how: "the tools aren't really good enough" https://kotaku.com/ai-generated-rpg-pixel-art-viral-elder-scrolls-daggerfall-2000616694

Yup, People Are Already Using Cheats In Battlefield 6's Open Beta Despite EA and Battlefield Studios requiring Secure Boot on PC, videos of people cheating are popping up online

Yup, People Are Already Using Cheats In Battlefield 6's Open Beta
https://kotaku.com/battlefield-6-open-beta-cheating-cheaters-hacks-ea-dice-secureboot-pc-2000616686

Doom: The Dark Ages’ Ripatorium Is A Brutal But Fun Challenge Admission is free if you have a Sisyphean complex (and for everyone actually ‘cause it’s a free update)

Doom: The Dark Ages' New Ripatorium Is A Great Way To Have Your Ass Handed To You:

Diablo 4 Boss Leaves Blizzard After 5 Years For Next Gig The industry veteran was in charge of Diablo IV

Diablo boss Rod Fergusson with a reputation for closing out tough projects announces he's leaving Blizzard for something new https://kotaku.com/diablo-boss-rod-ferguson-leaving-blizzard-after-five-years-2000616680

Katy Perry Performed A Song In Simlish At A Recent Concert A fan asked her to sing "Last Friday Night" in Simlish as it appeared in The Sims 3

Katy Perry Performed A Song In Simlish At A Recent Concert:

GTA Online Just Grew 50 Percent Thanks To A GTA 6 Trailer The multiplayer mode has 50 percent more players this year, even with GTA 6 nowhere in sight

A single GTA 6 trailer boosted GTA online players by 50 percent:

Capcom Announces New Dino Crisis... Merch Sale I'm sorry I did that to you but please keep reading the article, thanks

Capcom Announces New Dino Crisis... Merch Sale https://kotaku.com/capcom-new-dino-crisis-merch-event-sequel-remake-horror-2000616659

Madden 26 Is Already Dividing Fans On Switch 2 The first Madden on a Nintendo console in over a decade has players divided

Madden 26 fans are already divided over whether the Switch 2 version is good enough https://kotaku.com/madden-26-switch-2-framerate-bugs-reviews-performance-2000616631

Please, I'm Begging, Revive People In Battlefield 6's Open Beta In EA's new military FPS helping others is easy, but very few people are doing it

Please, I'm Begging, Revive People In Battlefield 6's Open Beta https://kotaku.com/battlefield-6-bf6-open-beta-revive-medic-help-me-ea-fps-ps5-2000616628

KPop Demon Hunters Songs, Ranked From Worst To Best Will ‘Golden’ take home the gold medal, or will it get taken down by ‘Takedown’?

KPop Demon Hunters Songs, Ranked From Worst To Best https://kotaku.com/kpop-demon-hunters-best-worst-songs-soundtrack-ranking-2000616633

Tencent Horizon Zero Dawn Scrubs Store Page After Sony Lawsuit Light of Motiram removed the most blatant references from its Steam store page

Temu Aloy has quietly been scrubbed from much of the Tencent Horizon clone's Steam page following Sony's lawsuit https://kotaku.com/horizon-zero-dawn-tencent-sony-lawsuit-knockoff-steam-art-2000616608

Take-Two CEO Won't Say How Much GTA 6 Will Cost When asked directly, Strauss Zelnick went off on foggy tangents about 'value'

Take-Two CEO Won't Say How Much GTA 6 Will Cost https://kotaku.com/gta-6-take-two-ceo-price-80-ps5-2000616607