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Nintendo sidesteps Hyrule Warriors' biggest issue in Age of Imprisonment

Nintendo sidesteps Hyrule Warriors' biggest issue in Age of Imprisonment

When Nintendo called Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment "canonical" to the Zelda timeline during the July Partner Direct, I did whatever the...

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Hades 2 has earned as many ‘final’ patches as it needs

Hades 2 has earned as many ‘final’ patches as it needs

Supergiant pushed another final Hades 2 patch ahead of the roguelike’s eventual 1.0 launch — yes, another final update, after the previous final...

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Nintendo needs to start showing Pokémon Legends: Z-A for the original Switch again

Nintendo needs to start showing Pokémon Legends: Z-A for the original Switch again

Nintendo ended Tuesday’s Pokémon Presents with new footage for Pokémon Legends: Z-A on Nintendo Switch 2, showing the player wandering the...

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Donkey Kong Bananza’s gold is pointless, but collecting it is still better than Super Mario Bros.’ coins

Donkey Kong Bananza’s gold is pointless, but collecting it is still better than Super Mario Bros.’ coins

I owe the data analysts at Nintendo an apology. My first 20 minutes of Donkey Kong Bananza were spent in the tutorial room with the “Press Y to...

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Marvel Rivals’ new hero Phoenix addresses a big nitpick about its characters

Phoenix is in Marvel Rivals , which means I might finally put Overwatch 2 on the shelf for a bit and get back into NetEase’s hero shooter game....

14.07.2025 10

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I’m playing Mario Kart World every day, so I guess it was a good launch game

The Switch 2 launch lineup was weird — or that’s what I thought after watching the April Nintendo Direct, anyway. Sure, Mario Kart World as a...

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Death Stranding 2 desperately needed content warnings

Content warnings have become, if not standard, then at least more common in entertainment media over the past decade. Films and video games dealing...

05.07.2025 10

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Death Stranding 2 is way more enjoyable if you skip all the boss fights

The “pretend you won” option in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a small, but radical little choice. It pops after you fail a boss fight and...

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Overwatch 2’s clunkiest mode finally feels good to play now after crucial fix

In summer 2023, Blizzard debuted Overwatch 2 ’s Flashpoint, a combination of Control and Assault where teams race to occupy a series of territory...

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