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Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is Atlus remaster of the classic 2006 PS2 game for modern consoles. With a complete battle system overhaul and fantastic quality-of-life features like fast travel and no more random encounters, Raidou Remastered is a much smoother adventure than it was almost 20…
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Nintendo has a history of packing in tutorial games with some of their hardware, so players were reasonably frustrated to find that Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour would run them $10. But while this tutorial-focused title should’ve probably just been included with the Nintendo Switch 2, it may still be worth buying for…
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If you’re a fan of previous Funcom titles, such as Conan Exiles, then you know the lore, while interesting in small doses, isn’t the focal point. It’s just the flavoring helping you immerse yourself in the sprawling landscape. In Dune Awakening, the story takes a high seat at the table, but it’s still not the center…
KotakuMany Elden Ring Nightreign players, myself included, thought they were finally ready to call it quits on FromSoftware’s multiplayer roguelike boss-raid generator. We defeated the Night Aspect. Maybe we even finished every achievement. It was time to walk away. Then, out of nowhere, the studio dropped its toughest boss…
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Newspapers have offered puzzles in some capacity for as long as anyone can remember, with crosswords being the most renowned. But when TheNew York Times bought Wordle at the start of 2022, things shifted up a gear. Only earlier this week, The Atlantic magazine announced it was launching daily challenges, and…
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 will include some of the original songs found in the original PS2-era skating games. But not everything is making the leap to the remaster, including one Alien Ant Farm song, a move the band understands, but still called a “bummer” in a recent interview.
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A console launch doesn’t make or break a system, but it’s still important. A fumbled launch can paint a system as the “loser” of a generation, while a strong one can write its name in the stars. Sometimes you don’t even need an incredible launch line-up; you just need one standout game that gets people to show up in…
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Stellar Blade is a mashup of classic arcade action and modern Soulslike about a defense force officer with big tits and an even bigger ass saving the post-apocalyptic ruins of Earth from the aliens who destroyed it. Paradise lost? Not for the gooners, or for general fans of fun combat in cool sci-fi settings held…
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Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy collaboration is an exciting opportunity for fans of the video game franchise to jump into the classic trading card game for the first time. There are a wide range of new cards in this cool crossover, but one of the most exciting is the Pre-Constructed Commander Decks made for the…
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50 years ago, Jaws transformed cinema forever as the first true summer blockbuster. More than 67 million Americans flocked to see it in theaters, only to leave terrified of ever setting foot on a beach again. John Williams’s ominous score, built on low-pitched instruments like basses, cellos, and tubas, combined with…
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Return to Silent Hill, the next live-action Hollywood adaptation of the hit survival horror series, is set to arrive in theaters next year. There hasn’t been much news about the film in some time, with some wondering if it was going to be dumped on streaming services. But nope, it’s still coming to theaters.
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There are some fundamental rules to surviving in Elden Ring Nightreign. Things like “always hit the small camp first to get level 2" and “never fight the Bell Bearing Hunter boss beneath the castle.” A third is “don’t bother trying to revive someone with three bars unless you have your ult.” But time and time again,…
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Earlier this month, nearly 3,000 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, with a total value of over 1 million dollars, were stolen out of a semi-truck in Colorado. The thief or thieves responsible have yet to be apprehended.
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Everyone who plays a FromSoftware game gets to that point where it feels like they’re just smashing their head into a brick wall over and over again. It can come early in a playthrough or toward the end. Some people give up while others persevere. 28 Years Later writer Alex Garland, who’s also directing the upcoming El…
KotakuDuring today’s Donkey Kong Bananza Direct, it was officially revealed that DK’s sidekick throughout the adventure is a young version of Pauline. That’s fun! Now let’s check the internet to see how people are reacting to the Direct... oh...oh no. Way too many of you care about Donkey Kong/Mario lore! That’s weird,…
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Marvel has had some big wins and painful losses in the video game space over the past few years. Marvel Rivals took the hero shooter community by storm, and Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is primed to be a fighting game powerhouse. On the other hand, Cliffhanger Games was shuttered while working on a Black Panther game…
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It’s been over 25 years since Donkey Kong’s last 3D adventure, the ill-fated Donkey Kong 64 for Nintendo’s third-gen console. The good news is that Donkey Kong Bananza looks to be avoiding all the pitfalls of its predecessor, embracing the gameplay DNA of Donkey Kong Country mixed with the sandbox mechanics of a 3D Mar…
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While we’re all waiting for Control 2, Remedy Games has released a multiplayer-focused game set in its universe, FBC: Firebreak. This game has a much wackier tone than Control. Whereas Control had protagonist Jesse Faden explore the psychological and supernatural elements of the Oldest House, here you and some friends…
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If you want to add friends on a Nintendo Switch 2, one of you will need to share your friend code with the other. This makes friend codes an extremely important part of the console’s social elements and not something to be shared with just anyone. As such, if your friend code is compromised in some way, or if someone…
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Security is more important than ever these days, and that extends even to your entertainment devices. Even beyond your precious save data and screenshots, there’s a lot of important stuff on your Nintendo Switch 2 that you don’t want just anyone accessing. Or, you know, maybe you just want to keep your kids off the…
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Donkey Kong Bananza just went from looking like a neat new spin-off for Nintendo’s long-standing ape to one of the Switch 2's first killer single-player exclusives. A 15-minute dedicated Nintendo Direct showed off stunning levels and more mechanics, collectibles, and secrets than you could shake a golden banana at.…
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I spent an enormously disproportionate amount of my childhood playing one game: Buggy Boy. I have learned, in preparation for this article, that this arcade classic had a different name in the U.S. “Speed Buggy.” Pah-tooie. Ew. No. It’s Buggy Boy, and it was—until 2025—the only racing game that recognized the vital…
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Remember how, when Palworld was blowing up, fans were excited that a Pokémon competitor might force The Pokémon Company to get its act together and stop releasing busted games like Scarlet and Violet? Whether that pans out remains to be seen, but given that Digimon, arguably the most notable competition Pokémon had in…
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Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Bananza Direct went out June 18, revealing a vast amount of new information about the forthcoming Switch 2 exclusive, and the more it went on, the more we found ourselves absolutely pumped for the game. You can watch the entire 15-minute video below.
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On June 17, Xbox announced the next wave of games coming to Game Pass in June and July, including two new (and very different) video games that are available right now on Xbox and PC.
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Electronic Arts and its stable of studios are no strangers to crossovers, especially ones that see its own properties making the leap to other EA games. Apex Legends has Plants vs. Zombies cosmetics, Dragon Age has a set of Dead Space armor, and The Sims got more crossovers than I can rattle off in a sentence of…
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Hades 2 continues trucking along in its journey through Steam Early Access with its third major update which adds new character interactions, art, and weapon aspects. With the longest set of patch notes yet, it’s seemingly the last major overhaul before the game hits 1.0 and launches on Switch 2 later this year.
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The torch has been officially passed. During a recent Good Morning America interview, Ironheart stars Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos were surprised with a video message from Robert Downey Jr. In the clip, the OG Iron Man shares his support and jokes about a similarity between Ramos’s Parker Robbins character and…
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Stephen King is at the point in his illustrious 58-year career when there aren’t many firsts left for him. Yet, the legendary author who’s published 65 books and has dozens of films inspired by his imagination machine of a mind has found time for one more first: his first animated feature. Lily became King’s…