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During today’s Ubisoft Forward livestream, the company finally peeled back some of the layers to Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the “back-to-basics” stealth-action game that leaked late last month before getting confirmed as real.
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Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope finally gets the deep dive fans have been waiting for ahead of its October 20 launch. The turn-based strategy formula is back, but with a bevy of new sci-fi tricks up its sleeves, and it’s giving me major Super Mario Galaxy 3-vibes. Also Rayman will be coming in one of the future DLCs.
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Although it might’ve felt like it Kinda Funny’s Blessing Adeoye Jr. was talking at 1.75x speed to get through talking about upcoming games and world premieres, there were some titles that weren’t just cinematic trailers. Here’s everything that was shown at Disney and Marvel’s D23 Expo, organized in order of whether…
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Revealed today during the somewhat underwhelming Disney and Marvel Games Showcase, Illusion Island is a new 2D, animated platformer being developed by DLaLa Studios and which seems to be heavily inspired by the recent (and fantastic) animated Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. And weirdly, this new platformer will be…
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Gameloft’s Disney-themed take on Animal Crossing hasn’t been in early access for very long, but the life simulator seems poised to take over the world already. It helps that there’s plenty more Disney Dreamlight Valley content coming down the pike, per today’s announcement at the big D23 Expo.
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Ari Notis, Kotaku’s primary source for guides, puns, and woefully uncritical games coverage, is leaving us. That absolute bastard.
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The recently released multiplatform life-sim, Dreamlight Valley, is a bit Animal Crossing, a bit Stardew Valley,and a whole lot of Disney. It’s also the kind of game you might want to play while watching a TV show, multitasking with a handheld console. But while it did come out on Switch, that version isn’t great.…
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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga contained a mind-bogglingly epic amount of content and characters from all of the nine, main Star Wars films. Yet, there’s always more Star Wars out there. So, TT Games is adding even more characters to the game via DLC announced at D23 today.
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Marvel’s Midnight Suns, which you may know as SpandeXCOM, got a release date again (again). Publisher 2K Games announced the news today with a splashy animated promo during the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase. It’s out December 2 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
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Anyone who has spoken to me in the last week knows that I am slowly losing my grip on reality due to the presence of rats in my apartment. The only thing keeping me from confronting the greasy creatures with a tactical vest made of rat coronavirus spike proteins and knives is Ooblets, the saccharine farming sim that…
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It’s rare for a fighting game to extend an olive branch allowing both casual and hardcore players to have their fun, but JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R does a remarkable job while evincing the massively popular anime series’ undeniable charisma.
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Today is the official launch of the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s Lost Origin expansion, which might be the penultimate set for the Sword and Shield (SWSH) era before next year sees new packs based on Scarlet and Violet. And it marks the return of the Lost Zone, the very occasional mechanic that entirely changes how…
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Well, Blizzard’s surprise has been spoiled. Late last night, a YouTuber named Kuriboh cervantes uploaded a video revealing Overwatch 2's newest hero, Kiriko. The company tried cracking down on the content, an unfinished animated short that gives a bit of backstory to who Kiriko is and shows off some of her abilities,…
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The passing of Britain’s long-reigning monarch has made the internet a curious place over the last 24 hours, as every brand on earth Says Something, and the rest of the world goes between mourning an important historical figure, metaphorically spitting on a colonialist grave, or shitposting themselves a path straight…
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In need of hundreds of hours of open world RPG adventuring? You’re in luck. A new Assassin’s Creed blowout sale means Valhalla and other titles are currently super cheap. And don’t worry, some of the older ones are massively discounted as well.
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Selling stolen goods to the place you took them from in the first place may not be the most brilliant of thievery plans, but it certainly saves on police paperwork. This is the alleged crime of a Washington man, who the Bellingham Herald reports stole a whole bunch of Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering cards, then later…
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Today’s Disney & Marvel Games Showcase, due to stream at 4 p.m. ET, is rumored to bring us news of Amy Hennig’s of Uncharted fame’s latest unnamed game. The news was originally reported by MCU Status, and further corroborated by Eurogamer, a news site with a good track record, the Marvel project will feature Captain…
KotakuDo you like trains? And beautiful animation? And dogs? And puzzles? And video games? Of course you do, which is why you’re going to like Railbound as much as I did.
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The last time the main Battlefield series dabbled with a proper campaign was all the way back in 2013, when Battlefield 4's singleplayer dropped and underwhelmed pretty much anyone who laid hands on it.
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Xbox consoles will be getting a new user interface next year, with Microsoft now testing a refreshed menu is still, 17 years later, not as fast or as practical as the Xbox 360's “blades”.
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A new 2K-themed Humble Bundle deal that will help support homeless youth contains one of the best deals I’ve seen all year. For only $16, you can walk away with over two dozen PC games including some genuine greats, like Civilization VI, XCOM 2, Borderlands 3, and a lot more. Even wilder, some of the games included…
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I think we can all agree that whether or not Billy Mitchell cheated at Donkey Kong that one time is basically the most important event in all of human history, and must be forensically dissected until the heat death of the universe. But in the latest round of the ongoing battle between this famed video game player…
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Disney Dreamlight Valley–out now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC– is a new cozy life sim that combines the chill village vibes of Animal Crossing with the farming and mining of Stardew Valley, all while sprinkling on a heaping of Disney magic in the form of iconic characters and locations from popular films like …
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Legacy media publications can keep their sexiest men and women of the year awards because the world finally has a winner in one of the internet’s most contentious beauty contests: the Tumblr sexyman award. And that winner is Sans from Undertale. Long may he reign.
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The life-sim Disney Dreamlight Valley frames its story as Mickey-Mouse-ears-wearing haven—far, far away from the hustle of city living or real life. But to enjoy it fully and make upgrades to its dilapidated town, obtain key items, and buy pretty dresses, you’ll still need to have fat stacks of cash. Take it from…
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Britain’s most famous lover of the Nintendo Wii, and also its longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has died at the age of 96. Her family flew in to say their goodbyes before she passed, and, perhaps, to reminisce about her enthusiasm for Wii Sports Bowling.
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Yesterday, the official Pokémon website announced that November’s Scarlet and Violet will introduce an auto-battle feature to the long-running creature-collecting series. Called “Let’s Go!”, the feature enables players to send a Pokémon out into the world to automatically collect items and battle with wild Pokémon.…
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Hideo Kojima games are always like a cerebral rubik’s cube. The plot, pacing, dialogue, and gameplay all tend to present this fun, if not elusive puzzle that you’ll likely keep thinking about even after you’re done playing. One would expect his new Spotify-exclusive podcast, Brain Structure, to also be as clever and…
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Last week, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite, which makes headlines more often for its stumbles than its successes, suffered its biggest PR blow to date: Couch co-op, a feature first flaunted half a decade ago, wouldn’t come out as intended. It wasn’t delayed, as with most of the planned features for Halo Infinite…
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When the 1.02 patch notes for the Warner Bros.-themed fighting game MultiVersus first went live, it appears that they included an interesting change to Scooby-Doo’s Velma. The support character previously sometimes called the cops to come haul away the player’s opponents, a special move that generated some criticism…