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Random: It's Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This LEGO Map Of The Legend Of Zelda
It comes with a walkthrough! You heard it here first: Pixels translate quite nicely into LEGO. Who'da thunk it? But we've not seen ...
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Make Shopping Online Better With The Wii Shop Channel Song
It’s a universally agreed-upon truth that the Wii Shop Channel music is a banger. No doubt about it. One of the best pieces of music humani...
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Talking Point: A Poképro And A Pokénoob Discuss Pokémon Legends: Arceus
It's a Tom and Kate debate! As we all know by now, Pokémon Legends: Arceus has taken the well-trodden Pokéformula of the last 20 years...
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The Chess World Is Losing Its Mind Over One Grandmaster Potentially Trolling Another
A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to be a troll (probably). A vitriolic fanbase armed with keyboards and an...
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Let's Check Out Ocarina Of Time's PC 'Port'
In November 2021 a team of fans at Zelda 64 Reverse Engineering—having spent two years on the project— revealed that they’d painstakingly ...
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The Week In Games: The Zombies Are Coming
Zombies! Love or hate ‘em, they are still a big part of pop culture. And later this week the next big zombie game, Dying Light 2 , releases...
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NES Zelda Map Recreated By One Person Using 25,000 Lego Bricks
If I dumped 25,000 Lego bricks and pieces in front of you and gave you a few months to build something with them, what would you make? You’...
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First Proper Trailer For Halo's TV Series Drops
While it was teased in December , the first full trailer for the upcoming Halo TV series was just released and it looks, if nothing else, ...
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You Can Now Catch Hisuian Voltorb In Pokémon GO
The new form featured in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. To celebrate the launch of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on the Nintendo Switch this week, Nia...
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Nintendo Hits YouTube Soundtrack Channel With Over 1300 Copyright Blocks
A YouTube channel that uploads video game soundtracks has reportedly been sent over 1300 copyright blocks in one day . This news isn’t shoc...
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Popular Video Game Music YouTube Channel Receives 1,300 Copyright Claims From Nintendo
Not again! Nintendo has set its sights on the YouTube video game music channel GilvaSunner (again). Following on from previous copyright c...
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Switch Hackers Add Controller Pak Support To The N64's Online Library
Time Trial Ghosts return in Mario Kart 64. One feature missing from Switch Online's Nintendo 64 library is Controller Pak support. Back...
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Video: 9 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In February 2022
Assassin's Creed, Sol Cresta and more! February is upon us, and you know what that means... more new games are en route to the Nintendo...
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NFT Minecraft Project Sells $1.2 Million In Tokens, Deletes Everything A Few Days Later
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An NFT project sells a ton of tokens, making a shit ton of cash in the process for a thing that pr...
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus' NYC Launch Was Unusually Subdued, But That's Fine
No camping out required . The times they are a-changin' and in this instance, seemingly for the better. Unlike past launches of Ninte...
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Puzzle-Platformer Pompom Announced For Switch
"Play a platformer in a new way". Publisher PID Games will be bringing Tomo Camp's 2D puzzle-platformer Pompom to the Switch...
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Science Has Figured Out The Worst Starting Word In Wordle
You might think you are good at Wordle , with your favorite starting word and all that. But a real Wordle expert can complete puzzles usin...
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Random: Shhh! Your Pokémon Are Having A Very Important Meeting In Legends: Arceus
Pay attention, Rowlet's talking. One of the cool things in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is that you can just sort of... run around while yo...
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Elden Ring Director On Game's Difficulty: 'More Players Will Finish It'
We are less than a month out from the release of Elden Ring . Some are already planning to take off from work to play it. Others are planni...
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The Best Uncharted, Out Now For PS5, Doesn't Star Nathan Drake
The best Uncharted game doesn’t open in media res with hero Nathan Drake hanging, gutshot, off a derailed train in the Himalayas. It doesn...
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The Top 12 Most Valuable Pokémon Cards In History
The ongoing demand for rare and valuable Pokémon cards has led to a frenzy out there , as people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on ...
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Six Months At Kotaku: The Renata Price Review
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Monster Hunter Rise Goes Old School With The Origin Layered Armor Set
Classic. Monster Hunter Rise continues to add frequent events and indeed gifts of items to help players along. A big update this week mad...
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To Get Shinies In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, You Need To Exploit Mass Outbreaks
Any number of things can serve as personal distractions in Pokémon Legends: Arceus , but one I’m sure a lot of folks will enjoy is shiny hu...
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Horizon Forbidden West Reusing Animations Isn’t A New Phenomenon (And It's Not Bad, Either)
IGN has published a new comparison video for Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West . The four-minute clip, a rundown of the biggest cha...
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Canceled Star Wars Game Footage Teases Boba Fett Bounty Hunting Action
Star Wars 1313 footage was recently discovered wiling away in an animator’s online portfolio , providing us with yet another brief glimpse...
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Hades' Bad Boy God Zagreus Now Has A Nendoroid
Infernally cute. The tempting video game Nendoroid collection has just grown larger: Zagreus, the main character from smash hit roguelike g...
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Halo Infinite's Ranked Capture The Flag Matches Are Too Long
Yesterday, developer 343 Industries shook up Halo Infinite ’s ranked playlist. For the foreseeable future, matches of capture the flag, sp...
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Feature: Zero Escape Creator Talks 'AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative'
Kotaro Uchikoshi discusses the upcoming sequel. Detective adventure AI: The Somnium Files released on Switch back in September 2019, one o...
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Halo Infinite Removes Its Worst Map From Ranked Play, Pros Rejoice
The behemoth has been slayed, literally. Starting this afternoon, you’ll no longer see Halo Infinite ’s worst mode (capture the flag) appea...
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It’s Not Just You: Miyamoto Hated Navi In Ocarina Of Time, Too
Navi. That simple, two-syllable word is enough to send even diehard Legend of Zelda fans into a tailspin. But as it turns out, even Shiger...
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Random: This Fan-Made SNES Hack Combines Celeste With Super Mario
It's also Celeste's 4th birthday! Remember the Super Mario Maker craze, when a bunch of masochistic platforming-obsessed players w...
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The New Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Is Taking Over The Steam Charts
Trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been around since 1999 and Konami has been putting out video games versions of the TCG for just as long. S...
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Talking Point: Do You Consider Pokémon Legends: Arceus To Be A Mainline Title?
It doesn't even have two parallel versions! Let's get this out of the way, first: Pokémon Legends: Arceus is, canonically, a mainl...
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Valve Announces Cloud Saving For Steam Deck
Valve announced a big feature for its highly anticipated Steam Deck: cloud saving. The cloud saving option will allow players to seamlessly...
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High-End PC Graphics Cards Get A Little Cheaper As Crypto Tanks
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card you’ve been after to complete your “ Extreme Gaming PC ” build is still in short supply but final...
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About An Elf Brings Punching Clowns, Talking Cats, And Marble Collections To Switch Soon
Surreal Switch surprise. Were you feeling a little woeful about the somewhat-sparse February 2022 game lineup? Then wrap your face around t...
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Latest Nintendo Switch Online Update Also Reduced Ocarina Of Time Input Lag
Last week, we reported that the Nintendo Switch Online’s emulation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time saw a small graphical tweak wi...
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Video: Check Out The Improved Graphics In This New Life Is Strange Remastered Trailer
"Additional bones". The Life Is Strange Remastered Collection just got delayed on the Switch , to an unspecified time in the fut...
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Legendary Halo Infinite Player Beats Game On The Highest Difficulty Without Taking Damage
It’s one thing to beat Halo Infinite on its highest difficulty, where enemy ammunition packs an extra punch. It’s another thing entirely t...
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Mythical Action Game Aztech Forgotten Gods Gets Its Switch Release Date
It sure looks intense. We first saw Aztech Forgotten Gods in an Indie World broadcast last Spring, and after a short delay it now has a fi...
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PLAYISM Confirms Another Two Intriguing Titles For Switch
A collect-a-thon platformer and dungeon 'clicker'. Over the weekend PLAYISM broadcast a showcase to highlight a variety of upcoming...
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Nine Months Later, Breath of the Wild Player Is First To Collect 'Impossible' Arrow
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild community is bonkers, combining all sorts of glitches to reach areas that the game would normally ...
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Random: Remember When Nintendo Tried To Sell The DS To Metal Heads?
Nintendo DS + heavy metal fans + open mic = amusing results. Nintendo has always has a reputation of being a family-friendly brand, right f...
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The Halo Infinite Players Who Look Amazing Without Spending A Penny
Since its launch in November, much hooplah has been made about Halo Infinite ’s customization options. Between the dearth of variety in fre...
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This Unofficial Zelda PC Port Is About '90% Complete', Say Devs
60fps and mod support to come. A fan-made PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is in the works, and it's apparently almost ...
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How To Pick The Best Four-Star Character In Genshin Impact's Lantern Rite Event
Don’t fret if you’ve had absolutely terrible luck rolling for characters in Genshin Impact gacha banners. The Lantern Rite Festival is run...
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Survey Says Developers Are Definitely Not Interested In Crypto Or NFTs
Every year ahead of the actual Game Developers Conference the show’s organisers run an industry survey, polling creators around the world o...
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Nintendo Hunts Down Videos Of Fan-Made Pokémon FPS
For the post month Reddit user Dragon_GameDev2 has been working on a little side project imagining a Pokémon game, built using Unreal Engi...
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The Week In Games: Arceus, I Choose You!
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is nearly here. The next big entry in the franchise, set in the past, releases on January 28 for Nintendo Switch. ...
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Halo Infinite Devs Can't Replace XP Boosts Wasted During Server Outages
Some Halo Infinite players are frustrated that they wasted useful XP boosters by activating them right before server outages knocked the ...
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Japanese Magazine Nintendo Dream Might Be Teasing A New Game
Could it be another Kirby title? Kirby and the Forgotten Land is arriving on the Switch this March, but it turns out Nintendo might have a...
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Back Page: "My Uncle Works At Nintendo" - The Man, The Myth, And The Mendacity
It’s all lies… until it’s all true. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you'd find all the weird goofs that we couldn'...
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A Wet And Wild Free Update Is "Coming Soon" To The Metal Slug Style Run-And-Gun Mighty Goose
Let's go surfin' now. If you haven't tried out the Metal Slug style run-and-gun game Mighty Goose yet, you might want to hurr...
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Video: PQube Shares Saucy New Opening Trailer For Gal*Gun: Double Peace, Here's A Peek
A cinematic exclusive to Switch. March is shaping up to be a busy month for Nintendo Switch releases, and one of the many games to be on th...
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Video: PQube Shares Saucy New Opening Trailer For Gal*Gun: Double Peace, Here's A Look
A cinematic exclusive to Switch. March is shaping up to be a busy month for Nintendo Switch releases, and one of the many games to be on th...
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PlatinumGames' Sol Cresta Blasts Onto Nintendo Switch This February
It's official! After having to delay its "must-watch" livestream earlier this month, PlatinumGames has now finally aired its ...
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus Is Already Being Streamed Online, And It's Not Even Out Yet
Not again! Pokémon Legends: Arceus has already been leaked and datamined this week, and now it appears entire playthroughs of the game ar...
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Half-Life: Alyx Is Even Better With A Weird, Talking Gnome
Half-Life: Alyx is great. One of the best virtual reality games I’ve ever played and one of my favorite games of 2020 . Hard to improve on...
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Ocarina Of Time Gets Surprise Emulation Fix On Switch
It seems Nintendo might be listening to Switch Online fans regarding emulation issues with some of the classic games it offers. Following a...
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Life Is Strange Remastered Meets Further Delays On Switch
If only we had the power to rewind time. Another day, another delay for the Nintendo Switch. Just this week, Dying Light 2 and Ghostrunner...
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Rainbow Six Extraction Should Be Your Next Game Pass Download
Before covid-19 spread around the world and killed millions, Rainbow Six Extraction was first known in 2019 as Rainbow Six Quarantine . A...
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Feature: Japan's 'G-Mode Archives' - The Retrogame Series You've Never Heard Of
A great way to play some more old games on Switch. If you're a retro game enthusiast, you're likely aware of Hamster's excellen...
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Oh No, I’ve Maxed Out Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass
A lot can happen in two months. You could spark a whirlwind romance with the love of your life. You could get a new gig and move across the...
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Good News, Mech Fans: Armored Core Spiritual Successor Will Soon Be Free
Is Daemon X Machina a “good” video game? Yes (no). Well. Daemon X Machina was recently described by a friend of mine as a 7/10 Armored Co...
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Court Urges YouTuber Banned From Roblox To Stop Making Terrorist Threats
Controversial YouTuber Benjamin “Ruben Sim” Simon has been banned from gaming platform Roblox after allegedly leading an in-game “cybermob...
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Halo Infinite’s New Mode Is So Good It Should Be Permanent
Step aside, Slayer. There’s a new deathmatch in Halo Infinitown : Attrition, a team-based mode wherein teammates share a limited pool of li...
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Random: Modders Combine Super Mario Sunshine And Galaxy To Make 'Super Mario Starshine'
Wahoo. Super Mario Sunshine gets a pretty bad rep these days, largely for its insistence that players have to clean up an entire island of...
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Pokémon Go Trading Halted After Player Gets Extremely Lucky
Niantic, makers of Pokémon Go , recently disabled trading in its popular augmented-reality game after the discovery of a bug that gave one ...
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Pokémon-Like Monster Catcher 'Coromon' Launches On Switch In March
With a built-in Nuzlocke mode. The latest Pokémon -like battling for your attention is Coromon , a new monster-catching game that's lau...
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NFT Bro’s ‘Metaverse’ Rave Looks Boring, Dead
A large crowd of unmoving clones standing still in a mostly empty world amid tinny-ass beats that’d sound weak coming out of a Game Boy. It...
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Dark Souls II X 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin Crossover Is Very Funny Actually
While professional wrestling is known for occasionally creating intriguing crossovers with other promotions , this Dark Souls II YouTube v...
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Ghostrunner 'Project_Hel' DLC Delayed To March
"Ensuring the health & safety of our team". The upcoming Project_Hel DLC for cyberpunk parkour game Ghostrunner was meant to...
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Halo Infinite’s Shimmery Nail Polish: The Kotaku Fashion Review
Everyone’s talking about Microsoft this week, with the massive megacorp’s big moves in the gaming space setting everyone’s tongues wagging...
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Dying Light 2 Release Delayed Again On Switch, New Date "Within 6 Months"
Delaying Light. Dying Light 2: Stay Human has been pushed back from its original February 4th release date to an unknown future date "...
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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase Isn’t Great, But Isn’t An Illegal Monopoly Either
Yesterday’s announcement of Microsoft’s plan to purchase Activision Blizzard King for nearly $70 billion immediately sparked discussions a...
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Call Of Duty: Warzone's Flying Car Problem Is Back In Latest Map
If you’ve played Call of Duty: Warzone recently, you might’ve seen flying objects in the sky that appear to be aircrafts like helicopters ...
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Final Fantasy VII Porn Interrupts Government Meeting
Italian lawmakers who gathered yesterday for a discussion of data transparency in political decision making got more than they bargained fo...
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Xbox Game Pass Kicks 2022 Off With Two 2021 GotY Contenders
The big news out of Microsoft today is, obviously, its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for the nominal fee of, oh, a small country’s GD...
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The Anacrusis Might Be A Worthy Successor To Left 4 Dead's Legacy
Zack and I were sprinting through a field of head-high flowers, and we were very afraid. Ahead of and behind us, two hordes of semi-zombifi...
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Netflix's Cuphead Trailer Is Slightly Easier Than The Game
The official trailer for Netflix’s The Cuphead Show! just dropped and, much like the visually stunning (and brutally difficult) game it’s ...
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The Sonic Lost World PC Mod Has Now Recreated The Legend Of Zelda DLC
Reaching for the sky. Sonic Lost World was a rather interesting entry in the series, and pretty decent in this scribe's humble opinion...
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Maker of PS5 And Xbox Scalper Subscription Claims To Be A Jobs Creator
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are still notoriously difficult to acquire. This is partially because of the chip shortage that af...
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US Pokémon Physical Sales Just Reached Their Highest Annual Total Since The Year 2000
2000 would have taken some beating. The Pokémon Company enjoyed another cracking year in 2021 with plenty of new releases and success stori...
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F1 Champion Max Verstappen Crashes In Virtual Car Race
While Red Bull’s Max Verstappen enjoyed a successful end to his actual racing season, when he claimed the F1 crown in controversial circums...
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Guide: Best Feel-Good Nintendo Switch Games
I see a ship in the harbour. Another year, another third Monday in January. We've updated this feel-good game list with a handful of ne...
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Random: Animal Crossing Grandma Audie Turns 90 And Gets Tons Of ACNH Gifts
Also, a new island tour! There's so much to say about Audie, the woman known affectionately as "Animal Crossing Grandma". We&...
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Wordle Brings Accidental Windfall To Another Dev, Who Gives It All To Charity
You know how everything is awful? Well, wait! This isn’t! Wordle , the super-simple Mastermind -like word game that has taken over planet E...
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