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Pokémon’s Original Art Can Finally Be Seen In Its Full Glory

For over 20 years, Pokémon fans have circulated poor-quality scans of the original watercolor artwork for the 251 monsters from the first two generations by renowned series artist Ken Sugimori. These scans were often washed out, and while they had a retro feel to them, weren’t accurate to the original art. Now, thanks to the

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A Colony Of Ants Took Over His PlayStation Console. Now What?

Despite being a largely failed gaming handheld, there are still millions of PlayStation Vitas out there in the world. Many are collecting dust. Some are waiting to be sold to new buyers who have yet to discover the niche beauty of one of Sony’s wilder hardware experiments from the previous decade. And at least one

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People Are Using A ‘Grandma Exploit’ To Break AI

Artificially intelligent text generation tools like ChatGPT and the Bing search engine’s chatbot have many rightly scared about the tech’s long-term impact, folks are finding new ways to crank out hilarious yet concerning results. Some of the latest stunts involve asking AI services to assume the role of your dearly deceased grandmother who once knew

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New Marvel Game Has Avengers Yell At You While You Work Out

On Tuesday, Marvel announced what’s arguably its most bizarre gaming project to date: a mobile app where comic book characters holler at you while you work out. Six Anime Characters With Permanent Invitations To ‘The Cookout’ Marvel Move, created by Six to Start, is an “interactive fitness adventure” mobile app that plays “immersive audio stories”

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Horizon Update Toggle Helps Players Afraid Of Water Sections

A recent update for Horizon Forbidden West (coming alongside the new Burning Shores DLC) has something interesting tucked away beside some subtitle and item changes: there’s now a toggle for anyone who suffers from Thalassophobia, or “the persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the sea, oceans, or lakes”. The Week

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Resident Evil Remakes Accidentally Lose Ray-Tracing On PC

Image: Capcom Last week Capcom pushed an update out to the Steam versions of the remakes for Resident Evil 2 & 3. It was supposed to be a generic little update, but whatever Capcom did under the hood ended up breaking a couple of the game’s nicer features. A Foe From The Next Team Ninja

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The Sims 4 Has Green Updates Coming On 420 Later This Week

On April 20 EA figure you might be in the mood to spend some quiet, relaxing time with The Sims 4, and are introducing a range of new items and structures to help with that. The Sims 4’s Free Infant Update Can’t Compare To The Growing Together Expansion The updates will centre on two locations:

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This Stunning ‘HD-2D’ Take On Pokèmon Should Be Real

Just imagine it: Pokémon, but with the visual style of Octopath Traveler or Triangle Strategy. You know, that joyful fusion of pixel art with modern 3D rendering that creates a delicate, dreamy atmosphere you can just get lost in for days? Thankfully, we don’t need to leave such a concept solely to fantasy, as 3D

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Tears Of The Kingdom’s Full Theme Song Is Killer

Nintendo dazzled us with the latest, and final, trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on April 13. We’ve learned a lot of new details about the upcoming Breath of the Wild sequel, including the return of the Gleeok enemies and the introduction of what could be the Zonai tribe. Now that

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Free Horizon Forbidden West Update Adds Its Best Feature Yet

Image: Sony Horizon Forbidden West is a game about saving the world, fighting prehistoric robots, and picking tons and tons of stuff up off the ground. Thankfully that last part just got even easier with the action-RPG’s free new PlayStation 5 update which adds a host of accessibility features, including the option to auto-pickup every

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