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Saudi Arabia Now Owns 5% Of Nintendo

1 year 10 months ago

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, a near-bottomless pit of cash tasked with diversifying the nation’s economy (and whitewashing their human rights record), has acquired a 5.01 percent stake in Nintendo.

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Luke Plunkett

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Turns Out A Short Yakuza Is A Very Good Yakuza

1 year 10 months ago

If the Yakuza (and its spin-off Judgment) games are famous for one thing, it’s that you can smash a dude’s face in with a bike and that it looks very funny. If they’re famous for two things, it’s that they are really long, and that their stories and cutscenes go on forever.

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Luke Plunkett

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PUBG Mobile’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Crossover Is Plain Weird

1 year 10 months ago

The latest PUBG Mobile event melds the handheld battle royale with anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion. Among other things, this means we get to see series mascot Eva Unit-01 perform silly dances, which is both delightful in an irony-poisoned sort of way and a serious indictment of the crossover trend’s…

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Ian Walker

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Xbox Patent Sounds Cool For People Buying Games On Disc

1 year 10 months ago

Microsoft have applied for a patent that, while not a perfect solution for every gripe you may have with modern consoles and digital ownership, may nevertheless be a great step forward for anyone who has a catalogue of games they own on disc, but have bought (or are thinking of buying) a digital-only console.

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Luke Plunkett

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The Best Lord Of The Rings Video Games

1 year 10 months ago

Tolkien’s influence on video games stretches back decades. Fans have been playing games based on The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) for almost as long as there have been video games, and for every misguided flop there has been a game that has been surprisingly OK for a licensed product. And in some cases much…

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Luke Plunkett

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Somehow, The N64 Can Do Portal

1 year 10 months ago

Valve’s Portal, released in 2007 (!), is one of the last games you’d expect to see the humble little N64 being able to manage, and yet here we are in 2022, seeing it manage it quite nicely.

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Luke Plunkett

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Mass Shooting Apparently Planned On Discord, Streamed On Twitch, Investigated As Hate Crime [Updated]

1 year 10 months ago

Tragedy struck New York on May 14 as an 18-year-old white male shot and killed at least 10 people and wounded three others in the New York city of Buffalo, police said. The shooter, whose online username is reportedly “jimboboiii,” has been taken into custody after livestreaming the whole thing on the gaming platform…

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jeremy winslow

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