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Tencent, Sony Throw Big Money At Elden Ring Maker FromSoftware
Elden Ring wasn’t just a hit with fans of FromSoftware’s notoriously difficult action-RPGs. Today Tencent Holdings and Sony announced they...
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The Last Of Us Part I Reviews Praise The Visuals, But The Misery Porn Remains
Well, here we are. The Last of Us Part I , the re-remake of 2013’s legendary PS3 title of the same name (minus the “Part” bit) has arrived ...
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The Original Mafia Will Be Free On Steam For Its 20th Anniversary
In celebration of Mafia ’s 20th anniversary, 2K Games is selling the original open-world game for the low price of free for a limited time ...
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Prey Director Says He Felt ‘Gross’ Using That Name, Was Forced To By Bethesda
Prey (2017) is a very good game , one of my favorites from that year in fact. Yet its name always seemed…weird. It has no connection to th...
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Someone Is Selling Nearly Every Console Ever Made On eBay For 1 Million Dollars
While many a collector can claim to have any number of rare video games and memorabilia , few, if any, actually own a majority of every con...
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The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Pokémon Game
For as much as Pokémon has stayed the same, it’s also changed quite a bit over the years. Nintendo’s decades-long Ash Ketchum biopic (bio…...
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Sekiro God's No-Damage Run Was Three Years In Making
No-hit runs in games—a kind of self-imposed challenge where you take zero damage from enemies— are nothing new , especially for tough-as-na...
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Feature: 12 Nintendo Games That Deserve An HD-2D Remake
Pretty in pixels. HD-2D has become the new lofty bar for retro-inspired RPGs or remakes of our favourite Super Nintendo RPGs. Square Enix...
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Got Joy-Con Drift? Don't Worry, Those Switch Controllers Can Live On As Works Of Art
Get hung up. Remember the 'exploded' Game Boy consoles we showed you a while back? Well, the company behind them, GRID Studio , is...
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New Half-Life 2: Episode Three Concept Art Reveals What Could Have Been
Avid Valve fan and collector David McGreavy just shared a large trove of unseen concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode Three and other unrel...
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Pokémon GO's Professor Willow Returns With A Brand New Look That's Dividing Fans
Willow or Will-ew? Way back in June when the Pokémon GO Fest 2022 first began, everyone's favourite Poké Ball guy (no, not the one fro...
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EA Owns Itself, Accidentally Leaks FIFA 23 A Month Early
As if EA wasn’t going through enough this month, what with Madden 23 's botched launch upsetting even pro athletes , it seems a certain...
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Nier Automata Switch Trailer Puts The Focus On 'Scanner' Android 9S
"Call me Nines". Square-Enix has posted a new trailer for the upcoming Switch release of NieR: Automata The End of YoRHa Edition ...
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The Big 100 Thieves Nadeshot Underpayment Allegations And Response, Explained
Pro gaming organization 100 Thieves has found itself embroiled in allegations of underpayment this week, levied primarily by former team me...
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Developer Explains Why Some Bad Steam Reviews Might Be Coming From Scammers
Steam is both an easy-to-use digital game storefront and a rabbit hole of shady shit, filled with weird, archaic leftovers from past ideas ...
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The Week In Games: Remake Mania
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343 Still Not Sure If It Will Add Microtransactions To Halo Master Chief Collection
Since it was released in 2014, Halo: The Master Chief Collection received a variety of updates and tweaks, including maps and modes that i...
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Video: Our Video Producer Showcases His Top Five Rarest Games
Yes, "you know what" is one of them. A few months back, our delightful video producer Zion was challenged by Jon Cartwright from ...
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Britishisms Are Corrupting My American Dialect
After being thoroughly underwhelmed with Digimon Survive ’s insufferable dialogue and bland characters , I braved the time-consuming Japane...
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Random: Zelda: Majora's Mask Debug Feature Reveals Ages Of Link's Forms
Five going on 78. Back in 2010, a debug version of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask leaked online. Based on the based on the 1.1 ver...
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Feature: Which Region Has The Best Pokédex? Every Pokédex, Ranked From Best To Worst
Worst to best, actually, because SUSPENSE. Depending on how you feel about food and motorcycle themed Pokémon, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet ’...
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Random: Coral Switch Lite Was Inspired By Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Pretty in pink. The Switch Lite models are lovely little machines, aren't they? Perfect if you don't play on the TV. We thought the...
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Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection - The New Gold Standard For Retro Compilations
Pizza dude's got 30 seconds. For gamers who weren't yet born in the 1980s, it may be surprising to learn that Konami’s pedigree was...
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Arise
Kevin Le Moigne is an artist from France who has worked on stuff like Arcane (the League of Legends animated series), and Netflix’s Klaus...
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Kermit The Frog Is Kicking Ass In The PC Version Of Spider-Man
The main reason Sony put Spider-Man on PC was to make money, but one of the main reasons PC gamers were so excited about it— apart from th...
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Round Up: Pokémon World Championships 2022 - Was It Worth The Three-Year Wait?
Pokkén and Sword & Shield have left the building. It has been three years since the last Pokémon World Championships , so the excitemen...
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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel #111 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time
Turtle-y brawling. Happy Bank Holiday weekend to you folks in the UK, and welcome everyone to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! Last week...
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Video: Digital Foundry Investigates Switch's Lowest Resolution Games
Could a new Switch improve existing releases? When the Nintendo Switch made its debut in March 2017, it was already lagging behind the comp...
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Sonic Frontiers Switch File Size Seemingly Revealed
Arriving this November. It's been another exciting week for Sonic the Hedgehog fans, with Sega not only releasing a new trailer for So...
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Nintendo And Mattel Appear To Be Releasing A Mario Movie UNO Set
Targeting a March 2023 release. The Super Mario animated movie starring Chris Pratt as Mario was delayed earlier this year until April 202...
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Video: Masahiro Sakurai Talks About Frame Rates In Games
Sakurai: 60 fps is "ideal" and 30 fps is "adequate". Masahiro Sakurai launched his very own YouTube earlier this week ,...
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Nintendo Has Already Started Banning Splatoon 3 Cheaters
Cracking down on naughty Inklings and Octolings. Splatoon 3 isn't officially out until next month, but it seems Nintendo is already ta...
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Netflix Cancels Resident Evil Series After First Season
Run, and don't look back. Deadline has revealed Netflix's live-action Resident Evil series has been axed after its first season. T...
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Scrublord Guilty Gear Strive Player Spreads Misinformation About Bridget’s Gender
Transphobic gamers seem to be getting stunned by facts again as one seems to have impersonated an Arc System Works representative and sent ...
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Fortnite TikTok Creator Explains How He Used DBZ To Troll The Internet
If you were online at all last week and following the Fortnite / Dragon Ball crossover event, the odds are pretty good you may have come a...
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Cult Of The Lamb’s Take On Resurrection Is Total Nightmare Fuel
A few of us at Kotaku have been obsessed recently with Cult of the Lamb , the buzzy new Devolver-published roguelike about a cult led by a...
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Black Horror Game YouTuber Has Everyone Debating Platform Racism, Favoritism
YouTube’s Trending page is typically full of easy-going content like music videos, comedy sketches, and game trailers, along with popular c...
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The Internet Is Kicking Toxic Jerk Andrew Tate Off The Funniest Places
Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer-turned-misogynistic-internet-guru-for-incels, was recently kicked off every major website you could think o...
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Pokémon Unite Reveals Roadmap For New Trainers, Pokémon and Legendary Battles
The first anniversary celebrations continue. The Pokémon World Championship 2022 might be over, but that doesn't mean that there will b...
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We're Getting A New Four-Player 'Puzzle Bobble' Exclusively On Switch Next Year
Everybubble celebrate! Puzzle Bobble — once known as Bust-A-Move in the west — is one of our favourite Taito franchises, so we're alw...
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Chibi-Robo Director Doesn't Think Skip Ltd Will Release Another Entry In The Series
"Most of the staff have moved on to other companies". There's nothing quite like Chibi-Robo . The teeny, tiny little robot ca...
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Halo Infinite Players Are Arguing Over Weapon That’s Not Even In The Game Yet
In the year since it’s been publicly playable, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite hasn’t received a single new weapon. But if recent le...
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Review: I Was A Teenage Exocolonist - Beautiful, Generous, And Too Nice For Its Own Good
Personal space. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist , the latest game from indie publisher Finji, developed by Northway Games, is a nice game. It ...
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Amazon Prime’s New Free Games Include The Best Assassin’s Creed, Lord Of The Rings, And More
Starting next month, Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to grab eight free PC games, including the best Assassin’s Creed game, Football...
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What Your Mass Effect Romance Says About You: Brutal Callout Post Edition
Mass Effect Legendary Edition gave fans the opportunity to return to Bioware’s lore-rich sci-fi franchise with new and improved 4K HD grap...
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Destiny 2 Disables Heavy Grenade Launchers After Glitch Makes Them OP
Season of Plunder is off to a fun but rocky start, and there’s no better example of that then Destiny 2 's heavy grenade launchers. Al...
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Xbox Boss Says Exclusives Aren’t The Future While Company Buys Up Exclusives
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, recently described the progress of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard as heading in a “positive dir...
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Random: Splatoon 3 Takes To The Stairs In This Massive South Korean Poster
Works on so many levels. Splatoon 3 is now just around the corner and we are being drip-fed more content on it each day, with the adverts ...
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Here's The Next Hilarious Netflix Anime You Should Watch
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Talking Point: Can We Predict The Other Two Stories In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet?
Treasure, school, and evil... One of the details revealed in the latest Pokémon Scarlet & Violet trailer was that the game would have ...
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Popular Media Platform Plex Hacked, Advises Users To Change Passwords
If you make use of the popular personal media server Plex on your Xbox, PlayStation, smart TV, or just about any other device, you’re going...
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Former GTA Lead's Next Open-World Game Looks Ambitious, Sounds Vague AF
Leslie Benzies, a former Rockstar Games lead developer and president of GTA makers Rockstar North, appeared during today’s Gamescom Openin...
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New Tales From The Borderlands Officially Revealed, Hitting Switch In October
Update: Gearbox confirm. Update : Gearbox has officially confirmed New Tales from the Borderlands for Switch (and other platforms) with t...
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New Tales From The Borderlands Out In October With New Characters, Story, Ex-Telltale Devs
Fun fact about Borderlands fans: We could always use some morederlands. Good news, then, seeing as Gearbox revealed what’s next for the lo...
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The Brilliant Couch Co-Op Game 'Moving Out' Is Getting A Sequel With Online Multiplayer
And they said FART. We love a good couch co-op game here at Nintendo Life, and Moving Out is one of our favourites. So we're delighted...
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PlayStation Announces 'Customizable' Model Of PS5's DualSense Controller
Sony announced a new model for its popular PlayStation 5 DualSense controller at Gamescom today. Called the DualSense Edge, Gamescom host G...
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The New Saints Row Is Getting Trashed By Critics
If you were hoping Saints Row would sate your hunger between GTA re-re-re-releases, you might be better off waiting a bit longer. Reviews...
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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Battles Look Intense, New Mechanics Revealed
Three months out from release, there’s still a ton about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet we don’t know, but a new trailer shown during the 20...
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Turn-Based Cyberpunk RPG 'Jack Move' Will Boot Up On Switch Next Month
Wake up, hacker. So Romantic's Jack Move , the futuristic grid-based RPG where you play as a hacker, will be tapping into our Switch...
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Fight Monsters And Clear Hairballs In This Upcoming 1-Bit Feline Dungeon Crawler
Paw Swords. How many times have you thought, "yes, this dungeon crawler is great, but I wish there was the option to play as a cat&qu...
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Take A First Look At Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Updated Battle Stadium
Ranked, Casual and Online Battles return. The closing ceremony of the Pokémon World Championships provided us with some more information on...
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Live A Live Producer: Nintendo Wanted Game On Virtual Console, Led To Remake Conversation
Nintendo lived for the game. For a long time, we didn't think we'd ever see an official localisation of Live A Live , but it's ...
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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet TCG Series Launches In 2023, Here's A Sneak Peek
Take a look at 'ex'. Apart from the new "competitive play" trailer at the 2022 Pokémon World Championships, Pokémon Compa...
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Guide: Where To Pre-Order Pokémon Scarlet And Violet On Switch
Double Pack, best deals and cheapest prices! The next mainline Pokémon games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet , are due to launch on Nintendo Sw...
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Talking Point: What Was Your First Legend Of Zelda Game?
Links to the past. Last Monday marked the 35th Anniversary of Metroid's release in North America for the NES, and we celebrated by com...
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Poll: Box Art Brawl - Wave Race 64
Making a splash. Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! Last week , we took a look at one of the GameCube's be...
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This Stealth GameCube Mod Allows You To Play With Any Bluetooth Controller
Pre-orders now available. The GameCube might not have had the same widespread appeal as the PlayStation 2 or the original Xbox, but it was ...
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Sega Announces Space Channel 5 And Comix Zone Movies
Sonic was just the beginning. Sega has had so much success with the Sonic the Hedgehog movies that it has already locked in the third one ...
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Reminder: Fortnite's Dragon Ball Crossover Event Is Now Live, Here's A Look
This collab is over 9000! Updated #3 : This is another reminder that the Dragon Ball event in Fortnite is currently underway. This include...
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Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka Is Doing A Meet And Greet At Gamescom 2022
Sonic Frontiers "world premiere" scheduled for ONL. Next week is Gamescom 2022 and it means Sega fans will finally be getting ano...
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Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Graphics Backlash, Promises Metaverse Won't Be Depressing To Look At
Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now ava...
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Dragon Ball Z Voice Actor Accused Of Sexual Harassment May Have To Pay More Legal Costs Now
In 2019, embattled anime voice actor Vic Mignogna, accused of sexual harassment by several parties , filed a defamation lawsuit against for...
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Talking Point: Which Nintendo Series Would Work Best As A Free-To-Play Game?
Hear us out! We've got some good ideas! Live service, free-to-play games are the new hotness. With massive fanbases built around games ...
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Random: This Mad Lad Is Building All Of Breath Of The Wild In Minecraft
Blocks and Koroks. Minecraft is one of those games where you can play every night for two months, crafting intricate castles and communiti...
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July's Best-Selling Game Was MultiVersus, A Free-To-Play Smash-Like
The best-selling video game last month was a free-to-play fighter from a company in flux. Yes, MultiVersus , also known as Super Warner Bro...
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This New Adventure Game Is Channeling Classic Tim Schafer Humour
A game like no other..? Developer Actoon Studio is bringing a pretty swanky looking new adventure title to the Switch that seems to harken ...
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Beacon Pines Combines Woodland Critters And Twin Peaks On Switch This September
More like... Twin Beaks. If Cult of the Lamb has been whetting your appetite for cutesy-meets-creepy, then wrap your peepers around Beacon...
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Come Catch These Kamehame-Hands In Fortnite’s New Dragon Ball Event
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Guide: So, What Does Embracer Group Actually Own The Rights To?
What do Catan, The Hobbit, Gex, and The Mask have in common? Disclaimer: We are not lawyers and some of the wording here may not be legally...
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The Xbox Features Most People Forget About
We did it for the Switch . We did it for the PlayStation 5 . It’s only fair that we do it for the Xbox, too. Earlier this month, Sony annou...
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Out Now: Bear-And-Bloke Platformer 'Timberman: The Big Adventure' Chops Its Way To Switch
If you go down to the woods today. If you are looking to return to your Nintendo roots with a good old-fashioned platformer then you may ne...
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Xbox Adds More Classic Bethesda Bangers To Game Pass
PC Game Pass users now have access to more classic Bethesda and id Software games, including some old Elder Scrolls spin-offs and old-scho...
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We Are OFK: The Kotaku Review
We Are OFK is a coming-of-age story about queer friends struggling to make it in L.A.’s brutal music scene that’s part interactive music v...
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People Are Queueing For Hours To Get Into London's Pop-Up Pokémon Center
Visitors urged to arrive an hour before their allotted slot. The pop-up Pokémon Center was always going to be one of the biggest attractio...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Soulless Metaverse Avatar Has Me Worried About Our Digital Future
“ Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help po...
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Nintendo 'Actively' Investigating Recent Claims Of Misconduct
Yesterday, Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser sent out an internal message to employees acknowledging the “media coverage involvin...
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Poll: What's The Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game?
On Nintendo systems, of course. The June release of Dotemu and Tribute Games' excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Re...
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This Spider-Man Remastered Mod Lets You Play As The Wall-Crawler’s Thiccest Foe
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Rohan And Koichi Explain Abilities In Upcoming Fighting Game's New Trailer
"Reality itself is entertainment!". It's time for another over-the-top, explosive trailer for Bandai Namco's upcoming JoJ...
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She Convinced Men On Tinder To Buy Nier: Automata And Then Ghosted Them, She Says
There’s a dramatic scene in Nier: Automata in which a desperate, downtrodden android commands his AI companion to cease all logical functi...
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Random: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night Gets The Game Boy Treatment
Demake highlights similarites to other Castlevania titles. The act of 'demaking' games has become a rather popular endeavour in rec...
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Rumour: The Sonic 3 Movie Synopsis Has Potentially Been Revealed
Via an industry publication. Paramount Pictures and Sega Corporation have managed to turn Sonic the Hedgehog into a Hollywood star. The sec...
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The Stadia Super-Fans Still Clocking Thousands Of Hours On The Service Everyone Thought Was Dead
Google Stadia hasn’t really been in the mainstream spotlight since its high-profile launch in 2019 . And outside of bad news and poor revie...
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The New Saints Row Is Showing Off More Of Its Silly Side
Saints Row developer Volition uploaded a story trailer for the soon-to-be-released game today, finally giving us a look at what the upcomi...
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Valorant Didn’t Just Break My PC, It Broke Me
I love shooters about as much as I love taquitos from 7/11, which is to say on far too many occasions I am walking out of such a store at 3...
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Random: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Travels The Map To Uncover A New Yiga Clan Secret
It's a trap! It's a great credit to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 's game design that five years on, we are still di...
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Unlike FIFA, Switch Gamers Are Getting The Newest Mode In NBA 2K23
Take on 15 of MJ's most iconic moments. Weeks after EA announced that its next sporting title, FIFA 23 , will release as a Legacy Editi...
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Kirby And The Forgotten Land And Star Allies Were One Big "Connected Project" For HAL Laboratory
"We thought of it as laying the groundwork for future works". Here at Nintendo Life, we love a bit of Kirby. We were charmed by ...
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Pac-Man World: Re-Pac Frame Rate, Resolution, And File Size For Switch Seemingly Revealed
A world, reimagined. With Pac-Man World: Re-Pac out on Switch in a few weeks, Bandai Namco has shared details on how the game will look an...
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Banjo-Kazooie's Gruntilda Gets Stunning Statue, Pre-Order Now Or Else She'll Catch You
Update: Early bird pricing ends soon. Update: Early bird pricing on First 4 Figures' Banjo and Kazooie statue ends at 9am BST tomorrow...
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Here's How Much Storage You'll Need For Splatoon 3: Splatfest World Premiere
We've also got storage requirements for Kirby's Dream Buffet! During Nintendo's recent Direct Presentation for Splatoon 3 , it...
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Keep The Unreal Engine 5 Showcases Coming, Please
I love Unreal Engine 5 showcase videos . Can’t get enough of them . To be clear, I don’t even care how playable any of them ever end up bei...
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Alone In The Dark Is Back For ANOTHER Reboot
In 1992, a horror game called Alone in the Dark was released , which was notable for the fact that it was basically doing a lot of what wo...
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Talking Point: How Were You Introduced To Metroid?
Lets get this morph ball rollin'. In case you didn't know, tomorrow (Monday, August 15th) marks the 35th Anniversary of Metroid ...
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Nintendo Switch Listing Surfaces Online
A new game could be coming. Fans of the American anime-style cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender could be getting a new game soon. ...
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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker
There's something in the wind... Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! In last week's edition , we took a...
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Review: Shin chan: Me And The Professor On Summer Vacation - The Endless Seven-Day Journey - An Irresistible Adventure
The NeverEnding Story. If “Kureshin × Bokunatsu” a) makes sense and b) sounds appealing to you, and if c) you haven’t already bought this g...
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Yooka-Laylee Developer Playtonic Warns Of 'Lil Gator Game' Scam
"Stay safe everyone". The Yooka-Laylee developer and publisher Playtonic Games has issued a warning via social media about a new ...
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Team Talks About The Game's Messy Launch
The result of a "perfect storm" of challenges. The release of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on the Nintendo Switch in June shou...
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