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Green Minecraft Movie Milk Gets Its Color From Chemicals The Government Wants To 'Eliminate'

Minecraft has milk in it but it’s not green. Instead, the “Creeper milk” going viral on Tiktok arises purely from the marketing geniuses behind chocolate milk maker TruMoo.Drafting off of the Minecraft Movie’s box office success, the dairy company released jugs of Minecraft-licensed “Vanilla Green Lowfat Milk” that…

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Bag More Treasure When You Learn How To Lockpick In Oblivion Remastered

Lockpicking is one of the very first skills you’ll need to learn and master early on in Oblivion Remastered. You’ll first encounter locked chests in the underground caverns beneath the prison, and then in nearly every dungeon thereafter. It’s a core component of the game. It’s also one of the most cumbersome to some…

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How To Save Cyrodiil By Leveling Up Fast In Oblivion Remastered

In the world of Oblivion Remastered, every enemy you face levels alongside you. The stronger you get, the more potent every threat becomes. To keep up and ensure you have the upper hand, no matter how slight, learning to level up efficiently and quickly in Oblivion Remastered becomes paramount. Thankfully, we’ve been…

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Skate Reboot Will Require An Internet Connection, Still Set To Launch This Year

EA’s upcoming Skate reboot is still planned to launch later this year in early access. But if you were hoping the skateboarding sequel would include some kind of offline mode, well, sorry brah.

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Wait, Just How Long Is Oblivion Remastered?

The Elder Scrolls ranks among the most beloved role-playing franchises of all time, so it makes sense that the internet has been absolutely in love with the re-release of one of its most popular entries, Oblivion. After years of speculation, Oblivion Remastered has finally landed, bringing with it vastly improved…

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4 Essential Tips to Survive Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s Brutal First Hours

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Oblivion Remastered Is Out, So Let's All Play Morrowind

Having booted up the original Oblivion only a week or so ago and realizing just how playable that 20-year-old game still is out of the box despite the recent release of an official remaster, it got me wondering about earlier Elder Scrolls games. Can I just load up Morrowind and play that too? The answer is: sort of.…

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One Of The Most Overlooked RPG Franchises Deserves A Comeback Now That It's Finally On PC Again

Breath of Fire IV is the latest classic with an old PC port to be resurrected by GOG’s ongoing preservation program. It’s available DRM-free for just $10 and makes one of the great underrated RPG franchises available to a whole new set of players for the first time in over a decade.

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Pokémon Is About To Make So Much Money On Life-Sized Eeveelution Plushies

Due to some questionable picks, the Pokémon Company’s life-size plush line has often been the subject of meme fodder. The helpful Lucario plush is here to steal your wife by doing the household chores you neglect. The Porygon is big enough to be a piece of furniture. And, well, what do you need a life-sized Gardevoir…

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Michael B. Jordan’s Most Badass Physical Performances

Michael B Jordan is one of those actors with a physique that looks like he was carved from marble while in the gym, staring at a collage of buff action heroes. And he’s put it to good use in his 20-plus year career, playing everything from a flying ball of fire in Fantastic Four to a fireman-turned-revolutionary…

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What We Loved (And Hated) About The Marathon Alpha

Marathon is out in less than six months and there’s still a lot we don’t know about it. But thanks to the current closed alpha, we’ve had a chance to finally go hands-on with Bungie’s first new project in over a decade and the latest live-service game coming out of the PlayStation portfolio. The results so far have…

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FBC: Firebreak Follows In Helldivers 2's Footsteps As It Reveals Release Date, Pricing, And Battle Pass

FBC: Firebreak is Remedy Entertainment’s unexpected foray into the multiplayer shooter genre. Set in the occult office space world of Control, the co-op experience is unlike anything the Alan Wake 2 maker has ever done before and it now has a release date. The Finnish studio revealed that FBC: Firebreak is out in…

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Madden 26 Skipping PS4/Xbox One, Launching On Switch 2

Electronic Arts has officially announced Madden NFL 26, revealing details about the various versions you can pre-order and what platforms the football sim is launching on in August. For the first time in over a decade, Madden is skipping last-gen consoles like the PlayStation 4 and returning to Nintendo via a Switch 2…

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Five Tips To Kick Off The Ultimate Oblivion Remastered Adventure

The moment you exit the sewers in Oblivion Remastered, you’re greeted by a sprawling open world filled with unique points of interest, enemies that want to do you harm, and quests that take place inside of paintings, task you with delving into dungeons, or send you on murderous missions. It’s a lot to sort through for…

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Marvel Rivals Support Players Are Going On Strike

Being a support player in a hero shooter is a thankless job. You keep everyone alive, and then your bad teammates still blame you when they run off and die trying to 1v6 the enemy team. Things have gotten so bad in the eyes of some Marvel Rivals’ Strategist mains that a group of them are going on “strike” by refusing…

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Nintendo Warns Some Switch 2 Pre-Order Invites Might Not Arrive Until After Launch

Nintendo has updated its website about pre-ordering a Switch 2 console with a warning that because of “very high demand” it can’t promise it will be able to deliver consoles by the June 5 launch date. It even warned that its pre-order emails might not arrive for some until after the console’s launch.

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Yo, You Can Score A Horse For Free Early On In Oblivion Remastered

The world of Oblivion Remastered features one of the greatest fantasy adventures in gaming. But with a world of this size, how does one traverse vast expanses of land without succumbing to goblins and bandits along every twist and turn? Fast travel is nice, but then you miss out on all the lush detail added into this…

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A Beginner's Guide To Mastering Gustave In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Gustave’s having a rough time of it at the start of Clair Obscur. His lover vanishes into ash; his friends get party wiped before they even finish saying “where are we?”, and everybody else he comes across who lands in the Paintress’ domain seems to have taken up getting horribly impaled as a new hobby. As many will…

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How To Smack Down Clair Obscur's First Boss, Eveque

Every journey begins with a single step, but for Gustave and his brave crew of cannon fodder friends and colleagues, that first step is less like Frodo and Sam heading off to Mordor, and more like that baby in Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejected. It doesn’t go well, is the point.

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Get Six Doom Games Plus Wolfenstein: New Order And Colossus For Just $28

It’s Doom Guy time. You can currently get six Doom games spanning nearly three decades for less than a tank of gas. For just $28, Humble Bundle is giving away the essential FPS games along with Wolfenstein: The New Order and The New Colossus in case you also wanted to squash some Nazis alongside your demon slaying…

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I Haven't Played Pokémon TCG Pocket In Months But Celestial Guardians' Alolan Raichu Might Finally Bring Me Back

I could not even tell you the last time I touched Pokémon TCG Pocket. I went from opening the mobile card-hunting game every day to hardly ever thinking about it. However, the upcoming new set Celestial Guardians might change that. The Pokémon Sun and Moon-based expansion includes an Alolan Raichu ex that looks too…

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Don't Leave Sinners Before You See The Post-Credit Scenes

“Sinners” is one of the earliest blockbusters of 2025, and for good reason. The fifth collaboration between director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B Jordan is also their most ambitious yet, as the ladder plays a pair of twin brothers who battle supernatural forces while opening up a new juke joint in Jim Crow era…

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The Very Best Cosplay From WonderCon 2025

The comic, sci-fi and movie convention WonderCon has been running since 1987, an extraordinary 37 years of gathering in various cities of California—currently Anaheim—celebrating the best of nerd culture.

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Switch 2 Pre-Orders Are Popping Up On Ebay Already

Just an hour after Switch 2 pre-orders went live on April 24 in the United States, Kotaku has spotted over two dozen eBay listings for the upcoming Nintendo console. Some are real. Others are actually people making fake listings to throw off bots and scalpers.

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Switch 2 Preorders Are Live And Pure Chaos

Switch 2 preorders went live online at 12:01 a.m. ET and were every bit the mess some fans feared: pages timing out, error messages that weren’t real, and email cancelations being received just moments after it seemed like orders had gone through. There must be a better way to do these. Not in time for the Switch 2…

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9 Things You Might Not Know About The Switch 2

On April 2, Nintendo revealed a lot about the Switch 2 via a big Direct. And in the days since that event we’ve learned more about the Switch 2 via statements from Nintendo, interviews, and more. For example, did you know that Nintendo confirmed Friend Codes are back, or that the Switch 2 carts will taste disgusting?

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Latest PS5 Update Brings Back Retro Themes And Adds Some New Features

Late last year, Sony added a couple of nostalgic PlayStation 5 dashboard themes the recreated the experience of using an older PlayStation console. People really liked these themes, but Sony said they were temporary and eventually they were all removed. But now they’re coming back for good.

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The Internet Reacts To The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remaster Taking Over Like It's 2006 Again

The worst-kept secret of the year, Bethesda’s current-gen remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, finally shadow-dropped yesterday and the Xbox-360-era open-world RPG has wasted no time in reminding fans why it was such a hit nearly two decades ago. Complete with refreshed graphics, updated gameplay, and cherished…

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First Teaser For Predator: Badlands Reveals The Movie's New Alien Hunter

After a year of rumors and reports, we finally got the first official teaser for the upcoming movie Predator: Badlands. And the teaser promises a Predator sequel unlike anything we’ve seen before.

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How To Master The Persuasion Minigame In Oblivion Remastered To Talk Your Way Out Of (Most) Trouble

The world of Oblivion Remastered allows for a lot of leeway in how you approach situations, whether you’re sneaking by guards, sword fighting like a swashbuckler, slinging magic spells, or, perhaps, talking your way out of situations. The latter often proves the most challenging for one reason: the persuasion…

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