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New Pokémon Card Shows 25 Pikachu Drawn By 25 Iconic Artists

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT

There is no such thing as too many Pikachu and The Pokémon Company's gonna prove it.

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Rare Mario PC Game Donated To Museum

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 08:30 AM PDT

There's a parallel universe in which Id Software, known for popularizing the first-person shooter genre, created PC versions of Nintendo games. In 1990, the studio created a demo for a PC port of Super Mario Bros. 3. That demo is now in a literal museum.

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Former Faze Clan Guy Pressures YouTubers To Pull Scam Vids With Millions of Views

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Weeks after getting caught pushing a dubious crypto currency scheme on fans and being dropped from the popular gaming influencer group FaZe Clan as a result, former member Frazier "Kay" Khattri is back trying to get the YouTube videos detailing the scam removed with a legal cease and desist order. Surely that will…

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Hideo Kojima Handed Out Flyers To Sell First Metal Gear

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 07:30 AM PDT

Last night Hideo Kojima, seemingly in a reflective mood on his prolific Twitter account, told a couple of gorgeous mini-tales of the lengths he went to in order to help sell his earliest games like Metal Gear. These included handing out flyers, and cranking up in-store demo volumes.

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Sony Japan Recommends Two-Step Sign-In After PSN Account Takeovers

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 04:30 AM PDT

While two-factor authentication is not new to the PlayStation Network, today the official Ask PlayStation Japanese Twitter account recommended the verification progress be used for logging in.

As website Game Impress Watch reports, there have been "many reports" from users of accounts being taken over in Japan.…

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Cage For When Trading Card Matches Get Brutal

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 04:00 AM PDT

You think trading card games like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duel Masters, and Pokémon are gentle? Maybe for you they are! But that doesn't mean the matches can't get intense.

Twitter user Numa spotted this set-up at a local card shop in Japan, used for trading card cage matches.

How cool is this?

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New Bravely Default Announced For Mobile In Japan

Posted: 14 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Square Enix has revealed a new Bravely Default. Called Bravely Default: Brilliant Lights, the game marks the franchise's tenth anniversary.

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Nier: Automata's Broken Steam Version Will Finally Be Updated This Week

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:10 PM PDT

Nier: Automata's PC port was a disaster, one so bad we've written headlines about it like, "It's Ridiculous That Nier: Automata Still Hasn't Been Patched On PC." Then, when Square Enix seemed unwilling (or unable) to fix it, "Fan Creates Patch To Fix Nier: Automata's Graphics."

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Smuggler Arrested With CPUs Strapped To His Body

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 06:35 PM PDT

Last week customs officials working at the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge stopped a truck driver who they thought was looking "nervous". With good reason; after searching him they found the dude was literally strapped with concealed CPUs.

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Company Of Heroes 3 Announced

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 04:00 PM PDT

I have strong feelings about Relic's classic real-time strategy game Company of Heroes. I've gone so far as to call it the "perfect RTS." So yeah, the news today that a third game was coming was both a huge surprise and a pleasant one.

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Skyward Sword HD’s New Free Camera Looks Great, But There's A Catch

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:45 PM PDT

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword looks to be saved from its status as the series' red-headed stepchild thanks to a bunch of quality-of-life changes in this week's high-definition Switch port. Nintendo has been happy to trot these out periodically, with the newest reveal being a free, fully controllable camera.…

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Warzone Hackers Are Forcing Cheats On Big Twitch Streamers

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:30 PM PDT

Demonstrating the latest trend in the increasingly active Call of Duty hacking scene, last night several high-profile Warzone streamers suddenly found their accounts boosted to level 1000 with all of their weapon skins unlocked.

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Rare Gundam Graphics Cards Wasted On Crypto Mining

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:10 PM PDT

I can't explain it. I can't justify it. But I do get Gundam fans' strange attachment to the special-edition GeForce RTX 3080 Gundam graphics cards. They're beefy but elegant and come in a sleek titanium white. They're also next to impossible to find, which is why some people might be crestfallen to see them put to…

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GBA Bootleg Wants You To Know Jeff's Mom Is A MILF

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 02:40 PM PDT

You never know what you might find when buying old retro games in bulk. Sometimes you get a bunch of mildewed junk. Sometimes you discover hidden gems. And sometimes you stumble upon strange bootlegs with totally unnecessary shoutouts to other people's moms.

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Dark Souls Scrolling Texture Mod Chooses Violence

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 01:40 PM PDT

Dark Souls is challenging, but have you ever tried playing it drunk, on psychedelics, about to vomit, or any combination of the three? A new, totally unnecessary mod simulates that experience by making almost every texture in the hardcore action role-playing game scroll endlessly, making it seem as if the world around…

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League of Legends Team Pulls Video of Players' Jobs Being Threatened

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 12:07 PM PDT

Conventional wisdom says there's no such thing as too much transparency, but like most adages, this one comes with asterisks. Yesterday, esports organization CLG demonstrated this by posting a video in which the general manager of its League of Legends team, Daniel "Tafokints" Lee, told downtrodden players that their…

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WoW Disappointment, Plus Twitch, Start Mass Exodus Into Final Fantasy XIV

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 11:30 AM PDT

Final Fantasy XIV is having its best month ever.

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First Two Persona Games Exist, Atlus Admits

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT

2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Persona role-playing series, and developer Atlus recently announced that they have a lot in store to celebrate this milestone.

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Nick Fighting Game Looks Legit, Will Prob Have Better Online Than Smash

Posted: 13 Jul 2021 10:29 AM PDT

As the classic saying goes, if you cherish something from your childhood, someday, somehow, corporate licensing departments will find a way to wring every penny from it. Such is true with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a Smash-style fighting game developed by Ludosity and "exclusively announced" today by IGN. It…

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