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The stapled Nintendo Switch 2 saga has come to a $250,000 end

Console launches are chaotic endeavors, and the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch was exactly that, right up to surprise snacks appearing alongside some new Switches. Chaos was most prevalent, perhaps, at a GameStop in New York City (specifically Staten Island) where dozens of consoles were ruined by staples that pierced the screens. The story goes that […]

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Apex Legends’ narrative breadcrumbs make me miss its golden age of lore

New seasons of Apex Legends always bring with them new plot developments and narrative threads to tug at. In this season, for instance, a new haute couture-themed event has just gone live, and to promote the game’s latest premium cosmetics, Respawn has posted a set of four in-universe magazine covers, each featuring a different playable

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Donkey Kong Bananza’s chaotic co-op gives your kid way too much power

Donkey Kong Bananaza is a classic Nintendo game through and through. It’s a throwback to the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and Wario World, pulled from an era of 3D platformers where Nintendo was reaching new creative heights in the GameCube era. But it’s also vintage Nintendo thanks to its co-op gameplay. Like Super Mario

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Bananza is Nintendo’s latest attempt to show you Donkey Kong’s caked-up butt

He’s the leader of the bunch; you know him well. He’s finally back to show some tail — in Donkey Kong Bananza, that is. If you’re playing the newest Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, perhaps your eyes have been drawn to a particular area of the brown gorilla’s anatomy. It’s kind of hard to avoid, given

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Blood Line, that mobile Rebel Moon game, out now for Netflix subscribers

The next entry in Netflix’s Rebel Moon series is an action game with Diablo vibes, as detailed in a new trailer for Blood Line: A Rebel Moon Game, a mobile game out now for Netflix subscribers. First announced in September 2024, Blood Line is multiplayer mobile action game developed by Super Evil Megacorp (SEMC) in

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Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition just makes me want to play Baldur’s Gate 3 again

Over the past decade, Dungeons & Dragons has gone from a nerdy niche tangled up with a satanic panic to a mainstream IP where a bunch of nerds can sell out Madison Square Garden playing it. Stranger Things’ kids on bikes helped shed a positive, post-satanic-panic light on the game, and its popularity has only

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Looks like Steam is having a messy crackdown on sex games

Valve’s storefront has a reputation for its uniquely permissible publishing requirements, which is a different way of saying that the PC platform sure has a lot of adult games. But things might be about to change for prospective games with sexual content on Steam based on a confluence of recent incidents involving rules, payment processors,

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Donkey Kong’s greatest game was rare because Nintendo made it

Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo’s most famous characters. The smash hit 1981 arcade game that made the company, kicked off Shigeru Miyamoto’s future of innovation, and introduced the world to Mario, bears Donkey Kong’s name. The big ape is as close to Nintendo’s historic creative heart as you can get if you’re not called

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