Axolotls are on the way! At Minecraft Live last year, Mojang announced the Caves & Cliffs update. In April of this year, it made the ...
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Sega Might Be Reviving Its Theme Park Business In The West
And the UK appears to be first in line... Sonic has now become a successful live-action movie star, and just last week, Sega teased its pla...
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The Atelier Ryza Series Has Shipped One Million Copies, Koei Tecmo Celebrates With Free DLC Costumes
Update: Now available to download. Update #2 : These free costumes for the Atelier Ryza games are now available to download. Read the ful...
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Nintendo Wins $2.1 Million In Lawsuit Against ROM Website
Another one bites the dust. Back in September 2019, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the game download portal website, RomUniverse. The sit...
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The Pokémon Company Recorded Its Highest Profits Ever In 2020
POGO played a HUGE part. Pokémon is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and somehow it just keeps growing in popularity. Although it...
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A Moment's Peace
Yusong Zeng is an artist from China. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/3wDGQ6S
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Nintendo Sues ROM Site Into Oblivion
Back in 2019, we wrote about Nintendo’s efforts to shut down the website RomUniverse, which was hosting and even selling premium access to ...
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If You Want Indie Gaming News, You Just Have To Ask
Earlier today, I tweeted explaining that for some mad reason Kotaku had left me alone at the wheel of their website today, and asked my f...
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Video: 100 Amazing Wii Games In 20 Minutes
We're wagging our remotes like happy dogs. The Nintendo Wii, now that's a console. No need for HD, 4K, HDR or gigaflops - Nintendo ...
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Many Need For Speed Games Are About To Be Erased From Reality
Publishers, like entropy, will eventually destroy everything. Rather than preserving their games like the works of art they should think th...
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There's A Surprise New LEGO Game Coming To Switch Next Month
We're bricking it. Back in 2019, one of the launch games for Apple Arcade — the technology giant's subscription games service — was...
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Random: Fan Project Is Making Super Mario Galaxy DS A Reality
What sorcery is this? Super Mario Galaxy is a classic, and certainly in the conversation when debating the best ever Mario games; it shone...
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Feature: Best Game Boy Color (GBC) Games
The top 50 GBC games, as ranked by you. It was 1996 in Japan and 1998 in North America (and a year later in Europe) when the ageing Game Bo...
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Why Did No One Tell Me About Uncharted 4's Climbing?
I am, after extensive research, willing to concede that I might not be the first person to bring the Uncharted series to your attention. H...
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Random: This Kid Tried To Sell His Prized Pokémon Card Collection To Save A Sick Puppy
The dog is okay, don't worry. An eight-year-old named Bryson Kliemann from Virginia, USA was worried about his dog. The puppy, Bruce, w...
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Super Cub Anime Is A Love Letter To Adolescent Freedom
Teenagers in many countries look forward to the day they get the freedom of their driver’s license, letting them explore their increasingly...
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All-Female Tactics RPG Empire Of Angels IV Arrives On Switch This Summer
No experience of previous games needed, apparently. When we saw 'Tactics RPG' in a game description for a press release our reactio...
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Two Point Hospital's Follow-Up Two Point Campus Accidentally Leaked By Microsoft
I think we’re now officially at the point where more games are announced by online store mishaps than by carefully cultivated PR campaigns....
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Mech-Shooter Wing Of Darkness Soars Onto Switch This Week
Promises an intriguing story and intense action. It was way back in October last year that we highlighted Wing of Darkness , a high-octane ...
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Total War: Three Kingdoms Fans Review Bomb The Game After Final Update Announced
Total War: Three Kingdoms , as of the weekend, is an “Overwhelmingly Negative” game on Steam. An organized review bombing has seen fans rea...
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Talking Point: Do You Replay Games?
Live, die, repeat. There are some conversations that I had as a kid that, for whatever reason, I still remember clear as day. It's weir...
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Boy Sells Pokémon Cards To Pay For Puppy's Vet Bills, Gets Rare Cards As A Present
Eight-year-old Bryson Kliemann decided to sell his Pokémon cards to help pay for his dog’s medical bills. According to Local 12 , the dog ...
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Video: Do Faster Micro SD Cards Actually Improve Load Times On Switch?
Every second counts. The Switch can be a relatively nippy little system, in particular when it comes to booting up and moving around its us...
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K-pop Group Enhypen Is Sorry About World Map That Omitted Japan
Just as K-pop group Enhypen is making a big push around the world, the group has ruffled feathers in Japan for merch that didn’t include, w...
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Nier Replicant Datamine Hints At Switch Plans
There is a 'but', though... NieR: Automata is a much praised and loved title, and often pops up on various "Switch port pls...
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Nintendo Shares Its May eShop Highlights
How many have you played? We're at the end of another month, and May brought some rather fun games to our charming little Switch system...
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Thanks To Demon Slayer, Fans In Japan Rush To Donate Blood
In Tokushima, the Red Cross featured Demon Slayer characters on blood drive posters. Sign up and give, and the prefecture would give out o...
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Two Point Campus Appears On Microsoft Store, And It Looks Rather Bonkers
Go get a degree in making giant pizzas. Two Point Hospital has proven to be quite a success, luring in players with nostalgia for the clas...
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Premium Edition Games Confirms New Switch Physical Editions, Teases Cathedral
Some solid games in stylish packages. There are quite a few limited edition game distributors in the Switch market, with the enthusiasm of ...
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World's End Club review - a delightfully nonsensical trip across Japan
It's time to stop making excuses for myself - I care a lot about the rules of narrative, right until I obviously don't. Otherwise t...
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The Week In Games: Another Week, Another Warhammer Game
As documented before on this site, there are a lot of Warhammer games. Maybe too many? Probably. And here comes another one. Read more....
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15 Years Ago This Month, Valve Announced Half-Life 2: Episode 3
It seems like just yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for their super-popular PC game, 2004's Half-Life 2 . But it’...
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Red Dead Online Players Found A Glitchy Water Wheel That Sends Them Flying
There might not be any jetbikes in Red Dead Online , but that hasn’t stopped some players from figuring out a new way to go soaring into th...
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Soapbox: Is The Best Harry Potter Game On Game Boy Color? Quite Possibly
FLIPENDO. We recently asked you Nintendo Life readers to rate your favourite Game Boy Color games , and as we're preparing to publish t...
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'Shop Contest: LeBron James Toy
Come on SLAM and welcome to the JAM! It’s time to have some fun with a weird LeBron James toy! (That didn’t rhyme as well as I hoped. But ...
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A Resident Evil Producer Is Leaving Capcom For Bungie
"Thanks to everyone both in and outside the studio". Capcom producer Peter Fabiano has announced his departure from the third-par...
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Resident Evil Village producer Peter Fabiano leaves Capcom after 13 years
Resident Evil Village producer and Global Production at Capcom, Japan founder Peter Fabiano has left the company after 13 years. "Har...
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Genshin Impact's 1.6 update brings summery fun next month
Genshin Impact's next sunshine-packed update, 1.6, will drop on 9th June. Entitled Midsummer Island Adventure, this latest patch will ...
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Benoît Sokal, Creator Of The Syberia Series, Has Died
Belgian comic book artist Benoît Sokal, the creator of the adventure game series Syberia , died on May 28 after battling a long-term illnes...
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Feature: More Than Just Pokémon - Japan’s Secret World Of Game Boy Color
Hidden handheld happiness. The Game Boy Color was the immensely popular home of a wide range of handheld classics, from multi-million sell...
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Quake revisited: the game, the technology, the ports, the legacy
Exactly five years ago, Digital Foundry Retro was born! At the time, it was an experiment more than anything else, focusing on just one ver...
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The Humble Heal: COVID-19 Bundle has raised over 1 million dollars for charity
The COVID-19 relief Humble Bundle has raised $1,170,824 (£825,000). Humble launched the Heal COVID-19 Bundle a couple of weeks back to su...
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Sunday Comics: Meanwhile...
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku ’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying ...
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Switch Pro Rumours Intensify As New Retailer Listing Appears Online
There's no hiding! It's been an interesting week on the Nintendo front, with a Bloomberg report suggesting the rumoured "Swit...
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A Hades Zagreus figurine is "coming soon"
Hades' Zagreus is being immortalised as a figurine. Developer Supergiant made the announcement over the weekend, confirming that its p...
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Memory Pak: My Nostalgic Sonic 2 Playthrough Was A Treasured Gaming Moment
You only have one life. It's a big anniversary year for various Nintendo franchises, but it's easy to forget that it's also a w...
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You can now play the cancelled Fallout 2 sequel Van Buren in Fallout: New Vegas with this mod
A cancelled Fallout 2 sequel by Black Isle studios is now available to play in Fallout New Vegas courtesy of a new PC mod. The game - whic...
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Feature: Nintendo Hardware Refreshes Through The Ages
Nintendo's lineage of console updates and revisions. With rumours coming in thick and fast that a new Switch hardware announcement is...
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On the trail of the odd one out in the Virtua Fighter series
Editor's note: After an outrageously long hiatus, Sega's Virtua Fighter is back with the release of Ultimate Showdown on PlayStatio...
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Why Virtua Fighter is chess to other fighting game's chequers
Editor's note: After an outrageously long hiatus, Sega's Virtua Fighter is back with the release of Ultimate Showdown on PlayStatio...
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Deserted Island Diary Releases This September
Find out what the animals do when you're not around. A few months ago, VIZ Media revealed it would be translating the Animal Crossing: ...
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Fitness Boxing 2 Has Been Updated To Version 1.0.4, Here's What's Included
Work ya body. Imagineer's workout game Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise received a new update earlier this week. This latest ve...
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Random: Nintendo Of America's President Doug Bowser Is An Extreme Dude
He's living life on the edge! It's not every day you get to see what the president of a major company does on their day off, but to...
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'Shop Contest: Cicada, Winners?
I made a mistake. I forgot that I have to judge these contests. So now I’m trapped looking at all your images featuring nasty cicadas. I’ve...
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CHOKESLAM!
After taking a week off, Snapshots is back. And to make up for the week off, I’ve included more screenshots than usual! Turns out, when you...
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Destruction AllStars Is Getting Bots Because Not Enough People Are Playing
Destruction AllStars , released in February exclusively on PS5, doesn’t seem to have a huge community of players online. So to help improve...
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Feature: A Perfect Metascore? We Play The Switch Game "Better Than Zelda: Breath Of The Wild"
The House In Fata Morgana Game Diary, Part 1. This is going to take a little bit of explaining. There is a game called " The House In...
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Switch Frame Rate And Resolution For House Of The Dead: Remake Seemingly Revealed
What can returning fans expect? Later this year, Forever Entertainment is reviving Sega's classic light gun zombie-shooter, The House o...
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Here's Someone Playing Minecraft Using A Bop It
Bop it! Pull it! Flick it! Mine it! Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/3wHaOH1
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Upcoming Biomutant patch to make "changes based on community feedback"
The developer behind Biomutant has said an upcoming update will make significant improvements to the game. Experiment 101 said this update...
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Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For June And July 2021
Ninja Golf: Skyward Skater. As we approach the halfway point of 2021, there's plenty of Switch games to look forward to in the coming m...
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Sonic's Limited-Edition 'Birthday Pack' Is Returning For His 30th Anniversary
We've only been waiting 20 years. If you were about when Sonic the Hedgehog celebrated his 10th anniversary, you might remember how Se...
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PS5 exclusive Destruction AllStars to get online bots
PlayStation 5 exclusive Destruction AllStars will get online bots. In an update on the Destruction AllStars subreddit , developer Lucid ou...
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Komala Is Born Sleeping, Never Wakes Up And Then Dies Asleep
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon , but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more ...
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Scavengers will today test up to 5000 players in a shared environment
Scavengers will today test up to 5000 players in a shared environment. The recently-released sci-fi survival battle royale hybrid has an e...
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The Guy Who Made The Stretchy Super Mario 64 Face Also Almost Gave Us Portal Zelda
The cake was a lie. We do love a good retro infodump here at Nintendo Life, and the latest is a podcast interview between Ben Hanson from t...
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"A true visionary": tributes to Syberia creator Benoît Sokal, who has died aged 66
Benoît Sokal, creator of the Syberia series, has died aged 66. French video game company Microids said in a blog post that Sokal passed a...
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Creative Assembly faces backlash over decision to end support for Total War: Three Kingdoms
Creative Assembly is facing a vociferous backlash over its decision to end support for Total War: Three Kingdoms. This week the British de...
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Grounded to get "larger and slightly less frequent" updates from now on
Grounded will get "larger and slightly less frequent" updates from now on, developer Obsidian has said. After a period of radio ...
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Soapbox: Resident Evil Gaiden Is Good, Actually
“Good luck Barry”. We recently asked you Nintendo Life readers to rate your favourite Game Boy Color games , and as we're preparing to ...
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Saints Row, Dead Island and Metro owner Koch announces Summer Game Fest livestream
Koch Media has announced a livestream as part of Summer Game Fest. Koch Primetime is set to take place at 8pm UK time on 11th June. Koch ...
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Microsoft Flight Simulator patch reduces download from over 170GB to 83GB
A new Microsoft Flight Simulator patch has reduced the game's initial full download from over 170GB to 83GB. In the patch notes for S...
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 29th)
Well, what are you playing? Another week has passed, with lots of intriguing news and a certain thing not appearing. You know what we mean,...
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Here's Another Look At 3D Realms' Spiritual Successor To Hexen 2, Arriving On Switch In 2021
Update: GRAVEN gets a new early access trailer. Update : GRAVEN went into early access on Steam this week, and to celebrate 3D Realms has ...
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Dragon Quest XII: The Flames Of Fate Is Running On Unreal Engine 5
And the story is already "complete". Following the Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary Live Stream earlier this week, there's been ...
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Covid-19 Barrier Given An JRPG Twist
At stores and offices, perhaps you’ve seen plastic guards to prevent the spread of droplets. Bet you haven’t seen one quite like this. Rea...
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Woman Arrested For Alleged Arson Threats To Attack On Titan Anime Studio
A 25-year-old woman from Miyagi prefecture has been arrested for allegedly emailing an arson threat to Wit Studio, which is best known for ...
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INDIE Live Expo Will Showcase More Than 300 Games Next Week
The biggest INDIE Live Expo to date. If you're into your indies, you might want to keep an eye out for next week's INDIE Live Expo ...
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Cyberpunk 2077 gets new game director
Cyberpunk 2077 has a new game director - and it's former creative director Gabriel Amatangelo. Amatangelo joined CD Projekt back in Ja...
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Fortnite adds character from Mistborn book series
Fortnite's latest crossover is something nobody expected - well, except perhaps the author of the Mistborn book series, Brandon Sanders...
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PS5 stock: latest updates on where to buy the PlayStation 5
PS5 stock is starting to arrive - at last! After a lengthy delay throughout April, PS5 consoles were made available at a number of retailer...
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Pokémon GO Fest 2021 - Details, Dates And Pricing Revealed
Celebrating GO's fifth anniversary. Can you believe Pokémon GO has now been around for almost five years? How time flies . Niantic an...
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Sonic Symphony And A Couple Of Quirky Cameos Are On The Way
Wrapping up the Sonic Central reveals. Yesterday brought us the first Sonic Central broadcast , which was very short and focused - quite a ...
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Sega mentions Sonic Rangers in its own press release
During Sonic's 30th anniversary livestream, Sega teased a new Sonic game from Sonic Team due out at some point in 2022 . Without namin...
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Beyond NRG review: how I gave up coffee for a gaming energy drink
I've been lucky enough to test out a bunch of weird and wonderful tech, but I don't always get a chance to share my discoveries in ...
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Capcom May Have Postponed A Significant Mega Man Battle Network Announcement
Requires fans to be "patient" until it's ready. The Mega Man Battle Network series celebrated its 20th-anniversary last week...
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Monster Hunter Rise Has Now Shipped Over Seven Million Copies Worldwide
Capcom celebrates with a free item pack. For a third-party release, Monster Hunter Rise has performed tremendously well on the Nintendo Sw...
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Dragon Quest Creator Teases Possible HD-2D Remakes Of The First Two Games
It's just "not official yet". Sonic wasn't the only video game veteran in the spotlight yesterday. As you might recall, S...
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Rumour: Sonic's New Game Might Be An Open-World Adventure
"Sonic Rangers" could even be the name... At the very end of the first-ever ' Sonic Central ' broadcast, Sega lifted the ...
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New Witcher Board Game Hits $3 Million On Kickstarter
Well would you look at this, a licensed board game shipping with 10,000 plastic miniatures is making millions on Kickstarter. This is my mo...
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Lady Dimitrescu's Actor & Model Cosplaying As Lady Dimitrescu
Look I know we’ve already seen some incredible Lady Dimitrescu cosplay , but I figured it was worth seeing some more today given the fact t...
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Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown Won’t Have State-Of-The-Art Online
Sega’s flagship fighting game franchise returns next week with the release of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown , yet another update to t...
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Project64 Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With A 3.0 Update
Fixes for "issues" with Donkey Kong 64 and more. Emulation might be a bit controversial, but (like it or not) it's arguably p...
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Limited Run Announces Blaster Master Zero 3 Physical Release For Switch
Pre-orders open next Friday. Get ready to master your blaster again when Blaster Master Zero 3 arrives on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 29t...
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The Last Of Us Game Actor Will Be In The TV Series
Well, this is neat! While the upcoming The Last Of Us TV series has been busy recasting everyone’s favourite murderers, replacing the icon...
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Charlie Guillemot, Son of Ubisoft’s CEO, Is Leaving The Company
Charlie Guillemot, co-head of Ubisoft mobile studio Owlient, is stepping down based on a new report from Axios . Back in August of last yea...
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Here's 14 Minutes Of Horizon Forbidden West Running On PS5
Today, during a State of Play digital showcase , Sony showed off 14 minutes of gameplay for Horizon Forbidden West , the much-anticipated s...
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