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Back in February it was announced that _Mass Effect Legendary Edition_wasn’t going to be including everything in the trilogy, because the source code for a single piece of old DLC—Pinnacle Station, which we reviewed back in 2009—had been lost.
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The second season of Pokémon Unite is now live on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Dubbed Sun, Sun, Sunshine, it introduces tons of new content to the popular MOBA, including another battle pass with 90 levels for you to grind through, as well as holowear for monsters and other rewards.
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Remember Lies of P, the Dark Souls clone announced earlier this year that’s based on the classic Pinocchio fairy tale from 1883? Here’s proof it wasn’t a collective fever dream.
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Nintendo has once again released Amiibo Cards for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and they’ve once again sold out, leading to a second-hand market full of hassle and sky-high mark-ups. It’s perfect timing considering the game’s big 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise DLC recently went live, and players are desperate to…
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On November 4, the first reviews for _Shin Megami Tensei V_were published. And while a number of those reviews drew ire from a certain segment of the _SMT_community, one in particular garnered more heat than most. The IGN review for the game scored it a very respectable 8, but some readers were nonetheless quite upset…
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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 unopened boxes and rare cards. Celebrities and popular influencers have got involved over the last two years too, blowing up the situation further. It’s gotten to the point where…
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ substantial update has brought not only a wealth of new content, but also some old favorite items fans have longed for. This includes gyroids, those cute and unusual little decorative fixtures last seen in 2017's Pocket Camp. Yes, they’ve made a return, and a subset of the game’s player…
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As Kotaku reported last weekend, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And _Shining Pearl_details have leaked online, a couple of weeks ahead of the Switch release date. As a result, Nintendo is attempting to play whack-a-mole against all the videos popping up, showing features from the game that were supposed to be under wraps,…
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As the first and only paid DLC,Animal Crossing: New Horizons’s_Happy Home Paradise_ expansion has a lot to live up to. And it does.
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The PlayStation 5 only launched a year ago this week, but already hackers appear to have made massive breakthroughs in potentially jailbreaking the latest Sony console. Both theFlow0 and Fail0verflow posted screenshots on Twitter over the weekend indicating they managed to unlock the PS5’s debug mode and access the…
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Of the very many Pokémon games in circulation at the moment, perhaps Pokémon Smile is the one you’re not so aware of. Announced in June last year, then released that very same day, it is an AR mobile app designed to get kids to brush their teeth properly. Oh, and it’s really, really good. Some 17 months later, The…
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Earlier this year, Kotakureported that Square Enix was getting into NFTs. At that time, the Tokyo-based game maker was dipping its toe in the non-fungible waters. Now, it looks like Square Enix is ready to take the plunge.
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The official Twitter account of_Overwatch_esports team the Philadelphia Fusion announced that Kim “Alarm” Kyeong-Bo has passed away. He was 20 years old.
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Konami just announced that both Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 are being taken down from online shopfronts after issues emerged with “licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game”.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic is 10 this year, and as part of the birthday celebrations BioWare have decided to do something I can’t remember ever seeing before; they’re re-releasing the game’s old trailers in an elegant resolution for a less civilized age.
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I don’t have time for Shin Megami TenseiV. I really don’t. But I’m going to buy it, love it, play it before bed for several nights and then never touch it again. And I can’t wait.
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Though it’s not news that there’s a new Mass Effect game in development—it was first shown off in a trailer late last year—this poster BioWare released for the game today _is_new, and if you’re the type of fan to speculate wildly at the tiniest hints and suggestions (which would be every Mass Effect fan), then you are…
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Garrus is sexy, smart, and has saved my ass countless times. He might be BioWare’s best character ever. And apparently thousands of_Mass Effect Legendary Edition_ players skipped him altogether.
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To some he’s a cryptic Agent of the Nine. To others he’s the Exotic Engram guy. My friends call him Pasta Face. Most know him as Xur, and after years of being obsolete he’s once again a weekly center of attention in the Destiny 2 universe. It feels good to have him back.
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Game Freak’s Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remasters aren’t officially out for another two weeks, but some copies of the upcoming Nintendo Switch games have already started appearing out into the wild. Now fans are combing through apparent leaked screenshots and videos for signs of previously unannounced…
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Ubisoft’s Canadian studios announced pay raises for staff at the Asssassin’s _Creed_and _Far Cry_publisher to combat an exodus by many of its most senior developers, Kotaku has learned. While the raises are across the bored, sources tell Kotaku that those who currently earn the most will see the biggest increases,…
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The 2021 holiday shopping season is at the mercy of global inventory shortages and supply chain constrains. Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s Timmy and Tommy Nook are not, and it seems like the proprietors of Nook’s Cranny will be doing their own Black Friday sale in-game starting November 26 as part of the new 2.0 update
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Yesterday, just a week before it launches, Bethesda finally revealed how much _Skyrim Anniversary Edition_will cost: $50. But what you’re actually getting in the latest version of the decade-old game is a bit confusing, so let’s break it down.
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Nintendo doubled-down on its commitment to its paid Switch Online subscription service in its latest corporate strategy briefing with investors. Despite complaints over the quality and price of its newly added Expansion Pack tier, the company said it will continue “striving to provide services that satisfy consumers.”
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Originally planned to come out later this month, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, the Square Enix MMORPG’s biggest expansion to-date, will instead arrive a few weeks later on December 7. That’s because director Naoki Yoshida and the rest of the development team want to launch the new content without breaking the game.
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People don’t remember much from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but they do remember the incredibly cringey scene where the game asks the player to press F to pay their respects during a somber funeral. Seven years later, the now-infamous meme has reappeared as an achievement in Call of Duty: Vanguard.
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Adi Shankar, producer on Netflix’s excellent Castlevania series, sat down with IGN Japanto discuss one of his next projects, an animated adaptation of Capcom’s action-heavy Devil May Cry franchise. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like there’s any room for Chris Pratt in the voice cast.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ big-ass update dropped earlier than expected and while it introduces tons of new stuff, there’s one modest aspect players aren’t totally pleased with: island ordinances, and to be specific, that new Night Owl one.
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I have been purchasing and playing Mario Party games since the series began back in 1998 on the Nintendo 64. But as a relative loner in real life, it’s hardly ever been a party for me. Aside from the odd family gathering, most of my Mario Party career has been me against AI opponents. Mario Party Superstars finally…
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The game that’s all the rage this week isn’t a glimmering racing game or a gritty first-person shooter. It’s not a massive expansion to a beloved life sim. No, the game of this moment is a delightful little puzzle game called Unpacking, which quite simply tasks you with the menial act of unpacking boxes. I’ve been…