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29 Games Coming Out In 2022 That We're Excited To Play
2021 is basically done. Old news! Now all people care about is this hot new thing called 2022, and its many, many release dates. Have you ...
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Best Of 2021: Where Does Competitive Pokémon Go From Here?
Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng on what the future holds. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion p...
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Guide: Animal Crossing New Year's Eve Guide - Tom Nook New Year's Items List For New Horizons
Don't forget your auld acquaintance. It's a well-known fact that New Year's Eve parties are usually a bit rubbish. Aside from t...
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The Year In Video Game Companies Buying Other Video Game Companies
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Throughout the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a boatl...
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Best Of 2021: Steven Spohn On Strides In Accessibility For Gaming, And Nintendo's Room For Improvement
"Back in the day Nintendo was at the forefront of accessibility, at some point they just stopped". Earlier this year Steven Spohn...
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Wordle Is That Square Grid Game You’ve Been Seeing All Over Social Media
If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you may have noticed people posting a bunch of differently colored squares. No, this is not a psy-op yo...
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Jeremy Winslow's Top Ten Games Of 2021
2021 was a year, wasn’t it? The pandemic is still causing unnecessary disruptions despite the widespread availability of vaccines. The semi...
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Best Of 2021: How The Super Mario Musical Got Made, And Avoided Nintendo's Cease & Desist
The secret is making Luigi a Scottish woman. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces...
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The John Madden Video Game Concussion Drama, Explained
Legendary NFL coach John Madden died on the morning of Tuesday, December 28. While many took the occasion of his passing to celebrate the ...
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Halo Infinite Dev Dishes About The Game’s Most Shocking Moment
The most shocking moment in Halo Infinite isn’t about exploding a derelict ancient space station or accidentally awakening a once-slumberi...
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The Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch In 2021, According To Nintendo
December still has a few days left, which means we still have a little bit more time to reminisce back on the year that was. In this case,...
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13 Games To Check Out If You Like Breath Of The Wild
It’s no secret that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was an incredibly influential game. It spawned numerous copycats while shiftin...
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Best Of 2021: GamesMaster Host Robert Florence On Succeeding Dominik Diamond And Why Switch Is "The Greatest Console"
"I think what they're gonna see is a nice live-feeling and chaotic show". Listen, Rob's not messing around here. He knows...
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Sisi Jiang’s Top Ten Games of 2021
I’m not an accommodating video game critic. A game either sinks its hooks into me within the first hour, or I immediately bounce to somethi...
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This Mobile App Makes Moving Switch Screengrabs To Your Phone Slightly Easier
10-4, good buddy. Being in the writing-about-video-games business, we spend quite a bit of time transferring screenshots from our devices ...
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Eufloria HD Brings 'Ambient Strategy' To Switch This Week
Revived after 8 years. One of the final releases on Switch in 2021 will be a surprise revival of a game that made its initial mark a decade...
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NFL Coach, Broadcaster And Video Game Icon John Madden Passes Away At 85
Will be remembered as an "absolute legend" of the sport. NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden has passed away at the age of 85. ...
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Logan Paul Encased 15 Game Boy Colors In Resin To Make A Pokémon Tabletop And People Are Mad
You ever do something in your home and think it’s cool, then share it with people online only to get roasted for ruining someone else’s hap...
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Best Of 2021: Remember When People Thought Switch Would Fail?
Nintendo is DOOMED. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from ...
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Ari's Top Ten Games Of 2021
Last year, when allocating my top 10 games of 2020 , I thought I’d be cheeky. See, Hades , which officially hit PC and Switch in September ...
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Best Of 2021: Minecraft And Celeste Composer On Nintendo Influences And Writing For The Biggest Game In The World
Lena Raine talks Chrono Trigger and wanting to write "a really rowdy anime opening". Over the holidays we're republishing som...
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How Halo Infinite Used A Semi-Open World To Deliver On The Promise Of Halo
Halo Infinite almost lives up to its title. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/3EzUP14
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Best Of 2021: Grant Kirkhope On How Batman Inspired Banjo-Kazooie
"I’ve used [those chords] a gazillion times, it’s in everything I write". Over the holidays we're republishing some of our be...
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Random: Logan Paul Made A Table Out Of Game Boys, And The Internet Isn't Happy
It lights up, too! YouTuber Logan Paul is a man who has his fingers in many pies, but his latest venture has riled up Nintendo fandom quite...
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Sakurai Believes He Was Able To "Fully Complete" Iwata's Final Mission
The Smash Bros. director is now thinking about what's next. As you might recall, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was the "final missio...
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Capcom Will Reveal More About Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak In Spring 2022
"Stay tuned". We've known about the new massive paid expansion coming to Monster Hunter Rise for some time now, but so far, ...
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Best Of 2021: Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, Or That Time Mario Got Movin’ To Mozart
The funky rhythm comin’ at ya! Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking p...
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Best Of 2021: Tee Lopes Talks Sonic, Streets Of Rage, And Making Music On A PS1
"Video games were a portal that allowed me to discover music". Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features...
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Despite Everything, Cyberpunk 2077 Was A Steam Top Seller & Most-Played Title In 2021
Perhaps it was an understatement when we said Cyberpunk was having its first “good day” when it creeped its way to the top of the Steam ...
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Best Of 2021: The Term 'Indie' Is Losing Meaning, But Maybe That's A Positive Sign
The games industry has come a long way in a short time. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opi...
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Sitting down with departing Editor Oli Welsh in The Eurogamer Podcast
Episode six of The New Eurogamer Podcast is now available to all. Remember, supporters of the website get these episodes first. Today'...
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The Week In Games: The Last Week Of 2021
Congrats, everyone! We made it. This horrible, awful year ( filled with some pretty good games... ) is nearly over. Now, I know that a new ...
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Best Of 2021: A Look Back At Nintendo's Long History Of Art, Music And Game Making Software
Over 35 years of programmin', paintin' and makin'. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, intervie...
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20 Years Ago, Nintendo Had Plans To Bring Email, Internet Searching, And Live Streams To The Game Boy Color
The Game Boy Color was released in 1998, a few years before the earliest and crudest smartphones had hit the market . Back then, the intern...
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The Game Boy Color Almost Got Internet, Live Video And Selfies Years Before Smartphones Arrived
Say hello to the Page Boy. Last year, esteemed video game historian and occasional Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson uncovered the ...
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Everything That Has Happened Since The Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Was Filed
The ongoing lawsuit against Activision Blizzard has made public some truly terrible and horrendous behavior that occurred across multiple s...
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Best Of 2021: The Story Of The Game Genie, The Cheat Device Nintendo Tried (And Failed) To Kill
The cheat cartridge that cost Nintendo millions. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pi...
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Zack Zwiezen's Top 10 Games Of 2021
Well, 2021 was a wild, awful mess of a year. I don’t need to recap what made 2021 so bad because, if you are reading this, you already know...
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Best Of 2021: Turning 'Peaceful' Into 'Frantic' With Animal Crossing's Speedrunning Scene
Legging it through New Leaf. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking poi...
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Best Of 2021: The Origins Of BAFTA-Nominated 'Before I Forget' And Its Approach To Dementia
"One of our goals has always been to tell stories that aren’t often told within video games". Over the holidays we're republi...
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Best Of 2021: Why Do Games Get Removed From Switch eShop? It's Surprisingly Easy
Ratings are both simple and iffy. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talkin...
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Best Of 2021: Developers Respond To The Recent Twitter Furore Over The Definition Of 'Game Dev'
A little more context than 280 characters can cope with. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, op...
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Best Of 2021: "I Was Actually Inside Jerry Bruckheimer's Office, Accused Of Being A Megalomaniac"
The Last Worker director on ambitious ideas and striving to do cool things on Switch. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our ...
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Best Of 2021: The Exquisite Liminality Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The disorientation of a space-between-spaces. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion piece...
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Best Of 2021: Nintendo And The Industry Needs To Get Serious About Game Preservation
Lots of catching up to do. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking point...
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Best Of 2021: Looking Into The Light In Super Mario 64
You know, that level where Mario blinds himself? Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pi...
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Best Of 2021: We Worked Out The Best Zelda Game Once And For All, Using Maths
...and it took a really long time. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talki...
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Best Of 2021: A Tribute To Bobby "The Nintendo Guru" Pauls
"A truly special person who can never be replaced". The Nintendo community is a tight community. It is a community of joy that is...
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Best Of 2021: The Real Story Behind Rare's Cancelled GoldenEye 007 Remaster
"We were all told as a team that everyone had approved it". Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, i...
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 25th Holiday Special)
What's cookin'? So, this is Christmas. And what have you done? Well, not a great deal to be honest — as is typical at this time of...
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Best Of 2021: Takaya Imamura - The Man Who Named Majora's Mask And Created Nintendo's Coolest Characters
And Slippy Toad. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the...
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Editorial: Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays From Nintendo Life
The mood is right, the spirit's up. Ho ho ho! Yes, the most wonderful holiday of the year has officially arrived and it's time to ...
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Best Of 2021: Retro Nintendo Games Cost Too Much, But Nostalgia Is Expensive
Second-hand Nintendo games are notoriously pricey, but why? Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews,...
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Best Of 2021: Clammy Consoles, Humid Horrors, And Retro Regrets
Don't try this at home. Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking poin...
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Inti Creates Had A Mega Man ZX3 Game In Development, But It Got Cancelled
The project was well underway. Apparently, there was going to be a third Mega Man ZX game but the project was ultimately cancelled. Durin...
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Uncharted Movie's Sully Already Looked Off, But The Mustache Makes It Even Worse
A new trailer for the live-action Uncharted movie dropped today and we finally got a good look at Mark Wahlberg sporting his character Sul...
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Renata Price’s Top Ten Games Of 2021
2021 has been a tremendously odd year. It has also been my first year with a real job as a games writer. This means that I have a lot of pe...
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The Arcade In The Last Of Us 2 Has Seemingly Closed IRL
There’s an arcade in The Last of Us Part II in which Ellie fights a bloater. It’s a tense encounter , with the scrappy avenger battling th...
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Mother Watch Promoted With Appropriately Offbeat Commercial
We may not be getting a Mother 4 any time soon ( well, officially at least ), but series creator Shigesato Itoi is still busy pumping out ...
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Nintendo's Indie World Holiday Sale Is Live, Up To 75% Off Some Of The Best Indie Games (North America)
Featuring Hades, Axiom Verge 2, Cyber Shadow and 27 more. Nintendo of America has launched a sale featuring 30 indie titles, including disc...
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'The World Ends With You' Could Get Another Game If Fans Show Their Support
But nothing is in development right now. Back in November, Square Enix revealed NEO: The World Ends With You didn't meet the company...
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The Best Games To Check Out During Steam’s Massive Winter Sale
Yes, Gamers, it is that time of year again—time for the Steam Winter Sale, which becomes more of a normal seasonal sale and less of a gamif...
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The Joker Admitting He Plays An RPG Might Be The Best Video Game Ad Of 2021
We all know The Joker has lost it. He goes around performing heinous acts of violence, all in an effort to prove life has perennial comedic...
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Your Halo Infinite Spartan Can Now Wear Cat Ears And It's About Damn Time
Wasn’t I just commending Halo Infinite a couple of weeks ago for letting me wear cutesy stuff like sunflowers and roses ? Now I’m back to ...
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Video: The Best RPG Ever Made Still Isn't On Switch
A game about time deserves to go down in history. Our very own Zion Grassl recently had the privilege of finishing Chrono Trigger for the ...
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Ian Walker's Top Ten Games Of 2021
Writing up a “Top X Games Of X Year” list is always a slog, but all the ups and downs of 2021—both personal and global—made it even harder....
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Nintendo Reminds Us Splatoon 3 Is Coming To Switch
Get excited, Inklings. Next year Nintendo is jumping "back into the ink" with the release of Splatoon 3 . Yes, in case you missed...
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Call of Duty Studio Vaguely Promises To Do Better A Month After Sexual Harassment Report
Call of Duty studio Treyarch just issued the latest in a long series of murky apologies from Activision-owned studios regarding the ongoin...
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Dev Says Halo Is For Everyone Following Harassment Video, But That’s Never Been True
After a viral clip showed a female streamer playing Halo Infinite getting berated by her own teammates and told the game isn’t “for” her, ...
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Twitch Streamer Drops Bars, Kicks Ass In Destiny 2
It takes a tremendous amount of multitasking skills to stream video games while staying engaged with viewers, but this Twitch streamer is s...
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Halo Infinite’s Winter Event Unfortunately Demands A Big Time Commitment
Halo Infinite has a seasonal event starting today. Like Infinite ’s prior event, a ton of cosmetic options are up for grabs, some of which...
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Voice Of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars Adds A "High Speed" Mode
"The game may become… unstable". While it may not feel like it due to rather muted promotional campaigns, Square Enix released a ...
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Retro Zelda Game Sells For Nearly $4,000 Thanks To Ramen Sticker
A rare Famicom Disk System copy of the original The Legend of Zelda was recently purchased for thousands of dollars, all because the disk ...
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'The Company Man' Aims To Make Office Life More Exciting On Switch
Don't try this at work. Combine 'action platformer' with office life and, theoretically, you get The Company Man . Developed by...
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Ranking Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's New Character Introductions Over The Last 5 Years
Game director Masahiro Sakurai has said there are no plans for a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sequel , despite claiming it might not totally...
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Monster Hunter Rise Update Version 3.7 Sets Up Holiday Additions
Events and two new buddies on the way. Monster Hunter Rise is still rolling out regular new quests and goodies, while in the Summer the ma...
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The Latest Chainsaw Man Anime Trailer Looks Hype
A new trailer for the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man dropped this weekend, and it looks like the series could take th...
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Two Tribes Makes Its Impressive Game Engine Open Source
Particularly strong for layered 2D visuals. Two Tribes is a name that's likely familiar to eShop enthusiasts, in particular from the 3D...
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Hardware: Up-Switch Orion Review - Turn Your Switch Into A Switch XXXL (And Make It Worse)
Bait-and-Switch. Not so long ago, we reported on the Up-Switch Orion , a crowdfunded accessory that promised to make up for the "under...
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No One’s Buying Ubisoft’s Garbage Ghost Recon NFTs
Well, damn, I guess it’s my turn to write about these dumb Ubisoft NFTs . The publisher’s first virtual items on the blockchain, unique num...
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Voice Actor Sayaka Kanda Dies At Age 35
On Saturday, Sayaka Kanda was discovered dead after at around 1 p.m. in Sapporo, Japan. That day, Kanda had been scheduled to perform the r...
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The My Hero Academia Manga Could Finish In A Year
My Hero Academia debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump back in July 2014 and has become one of Japan’s most popular manga. This weekend, creator ...
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Please Tell Me! Galko-chan Manga Creator Arrested Over Child Pornography
Japanese police have arrested 40-year-old manga creator Kenya Suzuki on suspicion of importing child pornography, violating the country’s l...
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Guide: Best Cheap Nintendo Switch Games - The Biggest Discounts On Switch eShop (Europe)
The best Switch games currently under a tenner. Regular sales have become a welcome fixture on the Nintendo Switch eShop and there are huge...
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Yuji Naka Killed "Dreamcast's Star Fox", Says Former Sega Producer
"I'm going to tell the truth, and if it comes back to bite me, so be it". Yuji Naka was responsible for the cancellation of o...
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Yes, Saints Row IV Is 93% Off And No, It's Not A Mistake
If it works, it works. Last week kicked off some tempting festive sales on the eShop, with all sorts of titles (mainly those that weren'...
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AAA Clock's 'Squid Game'-Inspired DLC Is Coming To The West In Time For New Year
"What better way to measure New Year's Eve until midnight than by AAA Clock?". Update: RedDeerGames has confirmed that AAA C...
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Nice Owl
Shafiq Cromwell is an artist based in Canada who has maybe the nicest character sheet design I have ever seen. Read more... from Kotaku...
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Congratulations To George R.R. Martin On Completing A Blog Post About Elden Ring
Having begun his work on From Software’s Elden Ring years ago, around 2017-18 , A Song Of Ice And Fire author George R.R. Martin has now ...
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Twitch Suspends An Amazon Prime Video Channel, Likely For NSFW Reasons
Earlier today, Twitch suspended the channel belonging to Prime Video España. That’s an official Amazon Prime Video channel. Twitch is owned...
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The Week In Games: A Mostly Quiet Winter Week
As we enter the week of Christmas and get closer to the end of 2021, the release schedule has, as it always does this time of year, mostly ...
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Feature: Nintendo Switch Year In Review - Our Stats And Most Played Games
That's a lot of hours. Just recently Nintendo gave us an insight into our gaming years on Switch; it provided a reminder that Mario is ...
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Every Halo Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
If there’s one thing Halo fans like more than playing Halo games, it’s ranking Halo games. Now that Halo Infinite , the latest in a long...
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Gran Turismo 7 will include 420 car models and 90 tracks
A pamphlet given away at a Japanese retail store has revealed more details about the upcoming racer, Gran Turismo 7, including news it will...
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Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition review - a striking audiovisual tour
Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to ...
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Metroid Dread Crowned #1 In TIME's 'Best Games Of 2021'
Another win for Nintendo. Samus' latest outing Metroid Dread has received a lot of praise since it arrived on the Nintendo Switch in O...
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Sonic Boom's TV Animation Is Getting A 'Complete Series' Steelbook Blu-ray Release Next March
And you can pre-order it now. If you were a fan of the Sonic Boom games, you might have also watched the animated television series. While...
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A New Limited-Time Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Statue Distribution Event Has Begun
Offer ends December 25th. A new Mystery Gift distribution event for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has now gone live. Read t...
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Continued Xbox Shortages Force Microsoft To Use Dev Kits In Latest Halo Tournament
If you’ve been trying to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X over the last year, you know how hard it can be. You might think Microsoft, the company...
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Amiga A500 Mini Launches March 2022 With 25 Games
Yesterday, Retro Games Ltd. announced that its full licensed mini version of the popular late ‘80s computer, the Amiga A500, would be out o...
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One gets first "major bonus story" DLC Beyond a Joke
If you've been enjoying your time sleuthing around the sunny, Mediterranean-inspired climes of Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, you might b...
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Ubisoft Boss Tells Employees That NFTs Are Just The Beginning
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot held a video Q&A this week to try and reassure developers about the company’s controversial new push behind ...
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Random: This Guy Has Been Mining Out An Entire Minecraft World For 4 Years, And He's Almost Finished
"Bedrock massacre". They say that one of the most zen things you can do with a few hours of your life is digging in Minecraft . T...
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Let’s Talk About Those Spider-Man: No Way Home Post-Credits Scenes
So, Spider-Man: No Way Home , yeah? I, an insatiable fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saw it last night. This may come as a shock to h...
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Ernie Hudson says new Ghostbusters game is "definitely happening"
Actor Ernie Hudson, perhaps better known as Ghostbusters' Winston Zeddemore, has claimed a new video game based on the legendary movie ...
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