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Elden Ring Expansion Announced, Called Shadow of the Erdtree

Image: FromSoftware FromSoftware just announced a major expansion for most people’s 2022 Game Of The Year, Elden Ring, is in development. It’s called Shadow of the Erdtree. The announcement was made via Twitter: Rise, Tarnished, and let us walk a new path together. An upcoming expansion for #ELDENRING Shadow of the Erdtree, is currently in

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Blizzard’s Diablo Was On The Catwalk At Milan Fashion Week

Photo: Activision Blizzard Milan Fashion Week has just wrapped up, and while this is not normally the kind of thing we would be covering on this, a website about anime, reality television and comic books, 2023’s show featured a surprise inclusion: Blizzard’s Diablo series. (I say normally because I have written about Milan Fashion Week

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Ancient Miyamoto Interview Talks Music, Weird Donkey Kong Games

Photo: Rodin Eckenroth (Getty Images) A newly translated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto was into, and his hopes for Mario’s future. A little background on these two before we hop into the

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At Least $100,000 Worth Of Magic Cards Dumped In Landfill

Photo: LATIN0 Over the weekend, Reddit user LATIN0 posted some pics on the internet of something neat they saw while at the dump. They’d spotted a bunch of boxes, all in pristine condition, that were full of Magic: The Gathering cards. They had simply thought it was interesting, and wanted to share the curiosity. “Someone

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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Patch Fixes Overpowered Monsters

Screenshot: The Pokémon Company In a whirlwind of Pokémon news coming out of the Pokémon Presents showcase this morning, there was actually a pretty notable balance change in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet which finally fixies one of the more overpowered strategies hanging over the game’s competitive scene. Dondozo the giant, catfish-like water Pokemon and Tatsugiri,

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New Netflix Must-Watch Show Now Steeped In Assault Allegations

Photo: Netflix I’ve been getting into sports lately. Not like physically, mind you, but parasocially. Y’know, watching Hajime No Ippo ahead of the anime AF Creed III and seeing what the hubbub is about LeBron James making history while being an “old.” While new Netflix game show Physical: 100 inspires lapsed athletes like myself to

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Xbox Boss Downplays Importance Of Looming Activision Merger

Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg (Getty Images) In a new interview Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, said that “Xbox will exist” even if its massive deal to buy up Call of Duty publisher Activision falls apart due to continued and intense regulatory scrutiny and public pushback. It’s been over a year since Microsoft

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Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe Is Great On Switch

Image: Nintendo “Kirby is the best game of all time,” I repeat all weekend, hypnotized by Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe Nintendo Switch remake, convinced it was a shimmering portal into a better life. The remake—released on February 24—is a brighter, but mostly exact, copy of the 2011 Wii game Kirby’s Return to Dreamland,

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Ishin Has One Of The Most Annoying NPCs Ever

Screenshot: Sega / Kotaku We’ve all been there. You initiate a conversation with some NPC off the side of the road. Suddenly, you’re trapped in the world’s longest and most non-skippable conversation. Your fingers hurt as you mash the buttons really hard. Your eyes glaze over as the other person goes on and on and

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