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Might Nintendo intend to create some sort of animated Nintendoverse? The Japanese gaming behemoth just announced it’s buying CG animation and motion capture studio Dynamo Pictures, now to be known as Nintendo Pictures.
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For years, the thrill of nabbing a Platinum trophy on PlayStation has been motivated by one thing: bragging rights. But later this year, once PlayStation rolls out its new loyalty program, you’ll actually reap tangible benefits (read: $$$, kinda).
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KotakuLooks like some people have been enjoying a little more than just early footage of the upcoming Skate 4. While EA continues to keep fans refreshingly up-to-date on a game that’s still a while off, the developers have written a blog post to say there’s a limit to that sentiment, and to ask folks to please stop playing…
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While you’d all be aware that celebrities, despite their wealth, are given expensive shit for free all the time, today we’re going to take a look at one gift in particular. Partly because it’s a gaming PC, but also because we kinda have the receipt for it as well.
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Drew Karpyshyn, a former BioWare writer, recently visited Reddit for a Q&A session promoting his latest novel, Time Kings of Las Vegas. The conversation, however, focused largely on his video game work. One user was even able to suss out a funny anecdote about how he reacted behind the scenes to Mass Effect fans…
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You may have seen some recent posts, on social media accounts typically associated with self-serious multiplayer shooters, about the “skill gap”—the general disparity in ability between pro players and casual fans in a given game.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge was released last month across multiple platforms and to widely positive reviews. Now, the studio behind the retro-inspired arcade beat ‘em up has shared the news that TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge sold one million copies in just its first week. Impressive as shell, I say!
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A month after launching its answer to Xbox Game Pass, Sony plans to add a slew of new and old games to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on June 19.
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If you’re a wrestling fan, you likely already know that WWE’s empress of tomorrow Asuka is a force to be reckoned with in the ring. But unless you’re terminally online like myself, you might not know that she excels in the art of shitposting as well.
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Red Dead Online’s last major update was released exactly a year ago today, and since then the game has lingered like a zombie as the community gradually lost hope that more content was coming. Before the anniversary, some players began planning an online funeral for Red Dead Online. And then last week, Rockstar Games…
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What’s more grim? That GameStop slashed headcount to cut costs right before launching an NFT marketplace, or that the NFT marketplace which the company spent millions on earned only an estimated $44,500 on its big debut? For those keeping score at home, that’s less than the price of a new truck.
KotakuGame-engine maker Unity said it plans on acquiring Ironsource, an ad tech firm, in a press release this morning. The news comes just two weeks after a wide round of layoffs rocked the company, where remaining employees are not exactly thrilled with the strategy.
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Following 2018’s substantial and mostly excellent revision to the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade, and before the expected release of the upcoming 5th edition of Werewolf: The Apocalypse’s core rulebook, Hunter: The Reckoning gets its turn with a 5th edition book, celebrating the latest…
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Five years ago, I had a terrible idea: I wanted a BioShock tattoo. Obsessively.
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The second half of Nintendo’s 2022 Switch release lineup continues to come into focus. On Wednesday the company announced in a new trailer that Bayonetta 3 will come to the hybrid handheld on October 28, letting Platinum Games’ gun-toting witch make her triumphant return right in time for Halloween. And that’s not…
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Imagine, your significant other has, yet again, taken it upon themselves to spring a surprise road trip on you without telling you where you’re going. Though you feign a smile at it being a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of the Leonid meteor shower, you’re distracted by the glowing red eyes from a swarm of mothmen…
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Elden Ring is still a new game as far as I’m concerned, but it’s also one many players have already sunk dozens or even hundreds of hours into, and any game, no matter how great, can start to lose its luster after a while. A new big thing starts calling out to you, like Neon White, or maybe you become preoccupied with…
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It’s been ten years since we first wrote about The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, a 1986 film—released only in Japanese—that was the first time a movie had ever been made about a Nintendo character. So it’s cool to be able to report in 2022 that efforts are once again underway to dub the film for an…
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Nintendo issued an update on the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives yesterday, and while this is normally a pretty stale kind of thing to read through as a fan, this particular publication had one thing that stood out.
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When I was a kid there was nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon with a model kit. Snipping the parts off the board, patiently gluing everything together, painting each careful brushstroke and delicately placing each decal was a process that was almost meditative, and after leaving the hobby behind…
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For two long years, manga readers have awaited the second coming of our lord and savior, Chainsaw Man. Finally, Chainsaw Man Part 2 is among us, and folks, its first chapter slaps.
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Bungie senior visual designer Signy Davis recently shared a blistering message on Twitter demanding that her company, along with the gaming industry at large, throw much-needed support behind inclusive health care for transgender workers.
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How do you keep a nearly 20-year-old game fresh and relevant? According to the team behind the colossal, space-based MMO EVE Online, you do it by constantly reinvesting in your infrastructure and by working to keep your new player experience–those early hours that introduce newcomers to the basics of the game’s…
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Since Naughty Dog’s Summer Games Fest announcement that The Last Of Us is getting a PlayStation 5 remake, gamers have been up-in-arms on social media over whether or not the infection-killing dad simulator even needs a remake. According to two developers at Naughty Dog, the remake isn’t the “cash grab” gamers have…
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In case you haven’t heard it yet from literally every other publication on the planet, today marks the start of Prime Day, the annual capitalism ritual wherein Amazon pushes every working class person into a locker and steals their lunch money. While much of the promotion is total bullshit, there’s the occasional…
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While there are many parts of the world more used to hitting the likes of 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the rapid increase in global temperatures means such heat is becoming a factor elsewhere. So much so that Nintendo has just issued a warning not to play with your Switch once the thermometer hits the big numbers.
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Kirby has a second game coming out in 2022 and it’s giving the internet major Fall Guys vibes. On Tuesday, Nintendo quietly announced Kirby’s Dream Buffet, a multiplayer game where you race friends around delicious hazards. The Switch eShop exclusive is due out in the next couple of months.