And it's out now! One 3D action-platfomer that's well worth a look on the Switch is Blue Fire - we said it was a "superb"...
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Want Cross-Play And Cross-Progression In Monster Hunter Rise? Let Capcom Know In This Survey
The PC version arrives next January. As you might have heard, Capcom's insanely successful Nintendo Switch title Monster Hunter Rise i...
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Video: Here's A New Introduction Trailer For Mario Party Superstars Ahead Of Its Launch This Month
100 classic minigames return. October is set to be a busy month for Nintendo with the release of the Switch OLED model and Metroid Dread j...
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Bandai Namco Is Changing Its Logo In 2022
What do you think? Every now and then, companies like to refresh, change and update their logos for marketing reasons, and the latest compa...
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Monster Hunter Rise Version 3.4.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Download it today. Alongside all the Tokyo Game Show announcements , Capcom has now rolled out Monster Hunter Rise Version 3.4.1. Read th...
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Bloober teases new Layers of Fear project, heading back to the easel
Bloober Team, the developer behind the psychedelic horror chills of The Medium, Observer, and Blair Witch, is teasing a new project in its ...
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Geoff Keighley's Game Awards Return To In-Person Events This December
Hideo Kojima slated to win "Best Friend". The Game Awards are like nerd Christmas, and Geoff Keighley is Santa Claus. He's al...
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EA Is Encouraging Gamers To Stop Being Jerks Via Battlefield 2042
Today, in advance of the release of Battlefield 2042 this November, EA announced the Battlefield Community Charter , a set of guidelines d...
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Konami's eFootball Is Steam's Most-Hated Game Right Now
Konami’s long-running football simulation series underwent a name change this year , going from PES to eFootball . But this rebranding did...
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Thank You Melty Blood For Adding Fate/Stay Night’s Saber, My Sword Wife
I didn’t pay much attention to the anime fighting game Melty Blood: Type Lumina until just yesterday, when the developers made the officia...
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Japanese Charts: Dragon Ball Z Debuts In Second As Switch Takes Seven Of The Top Ten
Hardware sales still lower than usual. Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 26th September, revealing that D...
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Amazon Is Selling Rare Xbox Series Xs At Scalper Markup Prices
Almost a year after the PS5 and Xbox Series X came out they’re still incredibly hard to find , and expensive, including at Amazon where the...
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Amazon Prime’s Free Games For October Are Shockingly Good
I have a boring ritual. Every few weeks, I make sure to check out the Prime Gaming Rewards page to see what free games are available. Most...
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Two Days With New World, Amazon’s Extravagant Food-Harvesting MMO
One of the best things about massively multiplayer online role-playing games is that everyone gets to play their own way, using their perso...
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Review: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot + A New Power Awakens Set - An Iconic Story Retold Well
A pleasant trip down Memory Lane. There are few characters in the world of anime more iconic than Goku, the Saiyan sent to Earth as a baby ...
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The Game Awards officially returns as "full-scale" in-person event this December
Geoff Keighley's annual end-of-year spectacular, The Game Awards, is officially returning for more celebratory escapades and video game...
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Ikea Is Serious Enough To Attend Japan's Biggest Gaming Expo
This 2021 Tokyo Game Show, like last year’s, is an online affair. There is a teeny tiny in-person area with miniscule booths. The public is...
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Nintendo issues denial on new 4K Nintendo Switch report
Nintendo has issued a denial on a new 4K Nintendo Switch report. Last night, Bloomberg (paywall) reported at least 11 companies, includin...
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Taito Beat 'Em Up Typhoon Gal Joins Hamster's Arcade Archives On Switch
Available from the eShop. This week's Arcade Archives release from Hamster is Typhoon Gal / Onna Sanshirou . It was originally an actio...
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Falling in love with Solomon's Key
For years whenever I've been hunting around through books about old games and going over compilation discs, I've seen the words &qu...
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Super Monkey Ball's Original Announcer Did Not Work On The New Game, According To Sega
He apparently hasn't been involved with the series for "some time". The original Super Monkey Ball announcer, Brian Matt - wh...
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King Of Fighters XV Director Dishes On The Series' New, Possibly Best Girl
When King of Fighters XV comes to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on February 14, it’ll do so with a bevy of charact...
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Video: Here's Another Look At Square Enix's New Racing Game Chocobo GP
Start your engines in 2022. If you are keen on arcade-style racing games and are tired of waiting for Nintendo to release a new Mario Kart ...
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Splatoon 2 Version 5.5.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Weapon changes, fixes and more. Although Splatoon 3 is just around the corner, Nintendo is still committed to providing Splatoon 2 update...
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Rumour: Developers Have Reportedly Been Working On "4K Switch Games"
Update: Nintendo responds to Bloomberg's report. Update: Nintendo has now responded to Bloomberg's report, claiming it's false...
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Labor Union Suggests $18M Activision Blizzard Settlement Akin To Pennies
Following news that Activision Blizzard plans to settle the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) complaint for just $18 m...
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Report: Games In The Works For 4K Nintendo Console That Doesn't Officially Exist
For years, reports have alleged that Nintendo is working on a more powerful Switch, and for years, it has yet to come true. Instead of rele...
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Gay Road Trip RPGs Are A Thing Now, And I'm Into It
Not many hero’s journey games lean into the journey part occurring from the back seat of a convertible, where you talk about how you had a ...
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Outriders, Six Months Later: Meh
Everyone loves a redemption story. Outriders , a third-person loot-shooter released earlier this year, seemed poised for a good one. Like m...
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Creepy Final Fantasy XIV Doll Costs $1,000 But The Nightmares Are Free
Final Fantasy XIV is a wonderful game, with a compelling storyline and gameplay mechanics that transcend the MMO genre. But for the last f...
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Sega Drops Series Monkey Ball Announcer, Who Claims Discrimination
Brian Matt, the original announcer for the Super Monkey Ball series, will apparently not be heard in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania , desp...
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The Next Spider-Man Game Will Be Darker, Like Empire Strikes Back
Details about Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 , Insomniac Games’ webslinging sequel first revealed during the September PlayStation showcase , are st...
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Twitch officially unveils new verification tools to tackle hate raiding
Following reports earlier this week , Twitch has officially unveiled a new suite of verification-based tools designed to help combat the in...
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Yikes, Top DOTA 2 Team Gets Covid A Week Before $40M Tourney
Today, high-profile DOTA 2 team Team Aster announced via a Weibo post that several members of the team had tested positive for Covid-19, ...
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Ticked Off Genshin Impact Players Go On Review-Bomb Spree
Genshin Impact ’s one-year anniversary is underway, but not all players are finding it a cause for celebration. For anyone familiar with th...
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The Point & Click Sale Discounts 10 Games On Switch
Sam & Max! Unavowed! Thimbleweed Park! More! There's been an interesting trend of smaller developers and publishers teaming up on s...
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Another OLED Unboxing Has Surfaced - And This One's From Nintendo
"You can definitely tell that it's new and different". Following on from the world-first Nintendo Switch OLED unboxing , and ...
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Review: Darksiders III - A Poor Switch Port Of A Distinctly Average Series Entry
Hellish. We're pretty big fans of the Darksiders franchise here at Nintendo Life. These games may pilfer their core mechanics from all ...
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Nintendo's Monster Hunter Sale Discounts Five Games And Lots Of Rise DLC
Sale ends this weekend. Nintendo and Capcom have kicked off a special Monster Hunter franchise sale across Switch and 3DS, discounting seve...
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Amazon to offer New World players free server transfers as queue times balloon
Amazon will offer New World players free server transfers in the next two weeks, with lengthy queue times blighting the MMO's hugely po...
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Takao Saito, Creator Of Golgo 13, Dies At 84
On Wednesday, the editorial department of Big Comic announced that Takao Saito passed away on September 24 from pancreatic cancer. He was...
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Review: Bonfire Peaks - We'll burn it down together
He burns his belongings. It's hard to imagine what has happened for a man to think there are no options left other than to take a box ...
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The Toy-Themed Shooter Hypercharge: Unboxed Just Got Its "Biggest" Switch Update Ever
New maps, enemies, weapons and more. Digital Cybercherries has released the fourth major update for its toy-themed shooter Hypercharge: Unb...
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Gallery: Nintendo Reflects On Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Ahead Of The Final Fighter Reveal
It's been a long journey. Last week, Nintendo confirmed the final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC reveal would take place on 5th Octob...
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The Horrifying '90s-Style FPS Dusk Launches On Switch This Halloween
Pre-orders are now available. After skipping its Halloween release last year, DUSK - the '90s-style first-person shooter inspired by D...
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Streaming Giant Netflix Acquires Its First Video Game Developer
Says it wants to deliver a "great collection of exclusive games". There's been a lot of discussion in recent times about the ...
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A (Playable) Game Boy For Ants
You know what my grandmother used to say? “That blasted Game Boy of yours, it’s too damn big!” She was right, the old woman was wise. And i...
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Japanese Developer Treasure Teases Future Releases For Switch Online
Gunstar Heroes and Sin & Punishment have already been locked in. One developer that showed up a few times during Nintendo's reveal ...
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Random: Check Out These Mock-Ups Of GameCube For Nintendo Switch Online
A fan can dream... Last week, Nintendo revealed N64 and Sega Mega Drive titles would be coming to the Switch Online service, as part of a ...
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Netflix acquires Oxenfree developer Night School Studio
Night School Studio, the developer behind acclaimed narrative adventure Oxenfree and its highly anticipated sequel, has been acquired by Ne...
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Microsoft is allowing third-party storefront apps onto its Windows store
Microsoft says it will soon allow third-party storefront apps, including those of Amazon and Epic Games, to be discoverable via is Windows ...
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Netflix Acquires Oxenfree Dev As Its First Game Studio
Streaming giant Netflix has acquired Night School Studio, a developer founded by former Telltale Games employees that released Oxenfree , a...
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New World Players Face Massive Queues, Wait Times On Overloaded Servers
Amazon’s new massively multiplayer online role-playing game New World opened its doors earlier today , reaching a peak of over 700,000 pla...
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Look At All The Ways You Can Kill People In Deathloop
Deathloop has some of Arkane Studios’ biggest, most kinetic-feeling levels to date. Yes, they’re beautiful to behold, and a joy to travers...
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The Boss Fight That Proves Death’s Door Is On Another Level
Death’s Door , an isometric dungeon-crawler that came out for PC and Xbox earlier this year, is a master class in elegant game design. Nowh...
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Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp Will Have Gacha-Style Microtransactions
Spike Chunsoft confirms on their blog. The Danganronpa Collection is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, on the 3rd of December, but...
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'Dandy Ace' Looks Like Hades X Persona, And It's Out On Switch Today
Plus new DLC! Listen, we know there are quite a few roguelites on the market these days, but for fans of the genre, it's never enough. ...
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Netflix launches three more mobile games for subscribers in Poland, Italy, and Spain
Netflix's fledging foray into video gaming continues today as the streaming service launches three new games for subscribers in select ...
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How Dare Neopets Taint My Childhood With NFTs
The Neopets developers recently revealed on their website that they are creating NFTs for over twenty thousand customized pets , all in p...
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Sable: The Kotaku Review
When I meet the mask crafter for the first time, I am unsure if I am touching a spirit, god, or machine. The machinists, whose ranks I plan...
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Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases Gets A Rather Dramatic Launch Trailer
Out now in EU, next week in NA. While it doesn't have the snappiest name, we've been rather intrigued to see how Agatha Christie - ...
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Nick Fighting Game Gives Nigel Thornberry Jigglypuff’s Rest From Smash
Nigel Thornberry, patriarch of the eponymously wild Thornberrys, is one of the weirdest characters in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl . Earlier ...
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A Mattress Designed For Gamers Goes On Sale In Japan
There are gaming chairs, gaming keyboard, and gaming energy drinks. All that is old hat! In Japan, there are mattresses for gamers. That’...
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Deals: Get Great Savings On LEGO Mario Toys With This 'Build Your Own' Bundle
Choose your favourite packs and save £22! If you're still looking to jump into the LEGO Mario scene, or perhaps simply hoping to add to...
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Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings Of Ruin - Title Update #4 Arrives This Week
With Dreadking Rathalos swooping in on 7th October. Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is a rather good game , an excellent sequel in...
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Navigate an arcane world in Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
Bertie: Do you remember the first time you realised magical potions weren't real? I was so surprised I had to take yesterday off work!...
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It's Official, Super Nintendo World Is Getting A Donkey Kong Expansion
"Set to open in 2024". It seems the worst kept secret has finally been confirmed - Super Nintendo World is getting a Donkey Kong...
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Universal Studios Japan Is Adding A New Donkey Kong Themed Area
Super Nintendo World first opened at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka earlier this March. The theme park area is already set to get its fir...
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This "Jumbo" Arcanine Poké Plush Is Available Now, Costs A Whopping $449.99
Pre-order it now. We've seen life-sized Snorlax, Meowth and even Slowpoke, and now we've got a "jumbo" Arcanine Poké Plus...
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Here's A "First Look" Inside Metroid Dread's Nintendo Switch Game Case
Launches October 8th. The release of Metroid Dread is upon us and to fill in time until its arrival, we present you with what's being ...
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Random: The Song In This Metroid Dread Japanese Commercial Is A Certified Banger
Nintendo is "so cool". Nintendo Japan has released a new commercial for Metroid Dread and the song in it seems to be getting a l...
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Limited Run's Axiom Verge Physical Releases Open For Pre-Order This October
Get a bundle or a standalone copy of the second game. Update : Limited Run has shared a look at the double pack collector's edition. B...
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Super Monkey Ball Rolls Into Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
The latest collab is totally bananas. In the lead-up to the release of Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania early next month, Sega has been prom...
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'Disney Classic Games Collection' DLC Upgrade Will Be Available for $9.99
Existing owners of 'Disney Classic Games' won't be left out. Last week, Disney and Nighthawk Interactive confirmed the ' Di...
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Activision Blizzard Settles With Federal Employment Agency For $18 Million (Updated)
Update 09/27/2021 7:45 p.m. ET: Activision Blizzard just put out a press release indicating that it has reached an agreement to settle th...
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Twitch reportedly launching new security tools to combat hate raiding
Twitch is reportedly preparing to introduce a range of new features designed to help tackle the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of hate r...
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YouTubers Show Old Switch And New OLED Model Running Side By Side
The Nintendo Switch — OLED Model is coming out soon, and Nintendo recently held events at which the press could try it out alongside Metroi...
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Sonic The Hedgehog Returns To The Macy's Parade, Almost 30 Years After Injuring Two People
He's hungry for blood again. The Sonic the Hedgehog Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon has a chaotic, yet thrilling history: H...
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Pokémon Unite Survey Suggests Huge Changes Could Be Coming
Now that Pokémon Unite has made its Android and iOS debut, developer TiMi Studio Group has pushed out an in-game survey for players to com...
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Rune Factory 5 Will Finally Let The Gays Marry
In a lengthy blog post , Rune Factory 5 ’s publishers confirmed that the English localization will allow same-gender marriages. This decisi...
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Eastward: The Kotaku Review
Eastward is a phenomenally constructed video game. All of its music hits. The characters are relentlessly charming. Its art and level desi...
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The First OLED/Switch Comparison Video Has Surfaced
It's BIG. YouTubers have been getting their hands on the Nintendo Switch OLED ahead of release, and after last week's Switch OLED u...
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Pony Island dev's deck-building horror Inscryption gets October release date
Inscryption, the "dark and disturbing" deck-building horror game from Pony Island and The Hex developer Daniel Mullins, will be s...
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Bethesda Gives Deathloop Actor A PS5 So He Can Play His Own Game
Actor Jason Kelley , who voices Colt in the recently released Deathloop , is among the many still unable to get their hands on a PlayStatio...
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Death Stranding Director’s Cut Makes Its Private Rooms Even Creepier
The new Director’s Cut edition of Death Stranding has only been out for a few days, but folks are already finding a slew of new Easter eg...
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Metroid Dread looks like it could be the real deal
When you've been waiting some 15 years for a game, I think it's probably fair to express a little bit of trepidation going in. Metr...
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Resident Evil 4 VR launches next month via Oculus Quest 2
Capcom classic Resident Evil 4 will be relaunched in its new VR version on 21st October. For now at least, it's an Oculus Quest 2 excl...
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Hands On: Metroid Dread's First Hour Is Legit Kinda Terrifying
If there’s one thing I want from Metroid games above all else, it’s a feeling of dread. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/3oae3Wm
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First Image Of The Last Of Us Live-Action Series From HBO
Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic survival yarn is getting a live-action series from HBO. Here’s a first look at the upcoming show. Read more...
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