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Arceus’ Incomplete Story Is Still Compelling

Are you ever playing a Pokémon game like Scarlet and Violet, happily running around the open world catching critters and having a good ol’ time, when you suddenly remember Game Freak stranded the protagonists of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in the ancient past with no means of returning to their friends and family in the

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Tears Of The Kingdom Leak

When The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom began leaking online, Nintendo initially fought back with standard copyright takedowns of screenshots, video streams, and entire Discord servers hosting links to pirated versions of the game. Now it appears to be ramping up the offensive, going after some of the emulation tools used to play

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Rare Set Of Pokémon Cards Gets Appraised On Antiques Roadshow

Recently, a guest on the popular TV series Antiques Roadshow brought on something quite different from the types of things folks usually have appraised by the show’s experts: a binder containing all 102 original, base-set Pokémon cards. What makes the segment so interesting is that appraiser Travis Landry takes it very seriously, and enthusiastically walks

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Gamers Are Memeing The Hell Out Of The King Charles Coronation

Charles Philip Arthur George, aka Charles III, was officially crowned the King of England on May 6. The coronation, which took place at the Westminster Abbey Anglican church in London, was expectedly gaudy and lavish, overflowing with enough gold and jewels to make you blind with all the incessant sparkling. Never mind the difficulty of

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Tears Of The Kingdom With This Recap

Screenshot: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is only a few more days away. The special edition consoles have shipped. The leaks are out there. And the digital version of the game has begun pre-loading on every Switch. The only thing left? Trying to remember what the hell happened in the first

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Lunark is an indie game with beautiful rotoscoped graphics

There are, by my count, 1732 indie games coming out every day now, which makes promoting them (for devs) and covering them (for us) almost impossible. One trend I’ve enjoyed lately, though, is an attempt to market a game not just by showing the game, but by showing what went into making the game. This

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Stranger Things Halted Because Hollywood Won’t Pay Its Writers

As the writer’s strike enters its second week, the effects of not having some of most important people on set around are already starting to show: two of the biggest projects currently in production—Marvel’s Blade reboot and the fifth season of Stranger Things—have been put on ice (along with loads more movies and shows I’ll

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News: Ortiz FG with :06 left lifts Beef past Bandits

  Omaha Beef 48 @ Sioux City Bandits 45  May 6, 2023 – 7:05pm CT    A Paul Ortiz 31-yard field goal with six seconds left lifted the Omaha Beef to a 48-45 road victory over the Sioux City Bandits Saturday night at the Tyson Events Center.  The 49th meeting between the two teams was another

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Please Watch This Amazing Overwatch x Dallas Mavericks Video

Last night I was scrolling through TikTok in the midst of an edible comedown, and I stumbled upon something so ridiculous, so cringe, so brilliant, that I couldn’t believe I had yet to see it before. It’s called Maverwatch, and it’s a 2018 hype video for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks that features its star players

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PlayStation Shuts Down First-Party Studio PixelOpus

Image: PixelOpus Sony has quietly closed down PixelOpus, one of its first-party PlayStation Studios. Based in San Mateo, California, the studio was responsible for 2014’s Entwined and 2019’s Concrete Genie. This Wacky Magical Girl Anime Is Studio Trigger-Coded To Perfection News of this first broke through a Twitter post from the studio, which expressed the

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