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First Look At Concept Art From A Cancelled Robotech Movie

For 15 years now, people in Hollywood have been trying to get a live-action Robotech movie made. Specifically, a movie based on Robotech’s first and most popular season, which was a Western repackaging of Japanese masterpiece Macross. Robotech’s original animated intro In 2007 it was Tobey Maguire leading the charge for a Warner Bros. production

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They’re Making A Mickey Mouse Metroidvania, And It Looks Grand

When you’re working with a character whose legacy is as long and storied as Mickey Mouse’s, there’s a lot of history to contend with. But according to Disney Illusion Island creative director and Diala Studios CEO AJ Grand-Scrutton, the House of Mouse was willing to play ball on his studio’s ideas for a cooperative take

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Wants To Die On This Very Small Hill

As you may have seen over the past week, Reddit—the “last page of the internet”—has not been having a good time, after the company’s CEO decided to oversee some changes that affected some very popular apps that people were using to access the site. That CEO, Steve Huffman, is now doing some prominent interviews in

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Replica Xbox 360 Controller Nails The Vibes, Lacks The Wireless

The Xbox’s gamepad wasn’t a hit right out of the gate. The original console’s first controller, often nicknamed “the Duke” for its comically large size, is remembered for just that: being enormous. Its followup, the “Controller S,” was serviceable but not particularly notable. Hollow Knight: Silksong’s New Gameplay Trailer Is Living Rent-Free In Our Brains

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Playboy Founder’s Son Funds His Pokémon Obsession With OnlyFans

Marston Hefner, the son of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, is probably the most down-bad person on the planet. He started an OnlyFans account this year to sell tasteful and steamy nudes, and then used that secondary income to fund his habit of collecting Pokémon cards. New Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Features Hot

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Great Nintendo Switch Games Are 50 Percent Off Right Now

Image: Grasshopper Manufacture Another season, another Switch sale. In celebration of the summer solstice or just to pad those quarterly earnings, several Switch exclusives and excellent indie games have huge discounts right now. If you need something to play by the pool, like say a 2D side-scrolling arcade-y throwback like Metroid Dread, now’s the time

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Halo Infinite Finally Adding Fan-Favorite Zombies Mode

Since the old days of Halo 2 on the original Xbox, many players (myself included) have been enjoying zombie-inspired competitive modes in these games. And now, finally, Halo Infinite, the latest, somewhat beleaguered entry in the franchise, is adding its own version of this popular game mode in its upcoming season four update. Spirittea Is

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Here’s What Each Edition Gets You

Screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku Price: $350 What You Get: Like a Russian nesting doll, getting the collector’s edition of FFXVI, which is only available as a physical copy, nets you every bonus in-game item offered with pre-orders for standard and deluxe editions of the game with download access to Blood Sword, an upcoming FFXVI

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Hands-On With Pokémon GO Company’s Monster Hunter Spin-Off

The same things that make Monster Hunter super popular—wild boss designs, deep loot progressions, and big multiplayer brawls—are what can make it feel impenetrable to the uninitiated. I have no idea if Monster Hunter Now, Niantic’s latest augmented reality social game, can be as successful as Monster Hunter World or Rise, the most recent console

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Twitch Upsets Streamers Again With Complex Revenue Share System

Twitch’s mid-life platform crisis continues. After rolling out controversial new 50/50 revenue splits for top streamers last fall, the massively popular online gaming hangout is now announcing a new “Partner Plus Program” that will return certain channels to the previous 70/30 split, but with tons of caveats. It’s already not going over well. We Need

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