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ReviewsToysScorbunny Is The Build-A-Bear Pokémon I’ve Been Waiting For
After a seemingly endless parade of less palatable Pokémon, Scorbunny’s fluffy white bunny butt has finally shown up at Build-A-Bear. I’m a little mad it took so long, but incredibly pleased with his little jammies, so it balances out. Despite being a fire Pokémon, Scorbunny is the coolest of the Sword and Shield starters. Grookey…
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World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic Goes Live June 1
The Dark Portal opens all over again on June 1 with the worldwide launch of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic. Players eager to revisit the old school version of levels 60 through 70, with the endless riding through Outland’s sprawling purple, orange, and green zones, will soon have their chance with the relaunch of…
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CultureBaldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance Returns To Consoles Tomorrow
While fans of hack-and-slash RPGs await the June 22 release of the all-new Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, Interplay’s releasing the 2001 classic that started it all. Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance will be available for PlayStations, Xboxes, and Switch tomorrow, complete with support for 4K scaling on capable consoles. Released two decades ago for the…
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CultureThese Are Your 2021 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees
After sifting through a field of finalists including classics like Guitar Hero, Pole Position, Portal, and…FarmVille, the Strong National Museum of Play has announced the 2021 inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Let’s hear it for StarCraft, Animal Crossing, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, and Microsoft Flight Simulator Each year…
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CultureThe Nintendo Download: Lo-Fi Skateboarding And Pretty Girls Poker
It’s Nintendo Download day, the day when we get a look at the *checks list* 30 new games coming to the Switch eShop over the coming week. This week’s activities include chilling on a skateboard and playing poker with those boom anime babes that make you think the wrong thing. My personal highlight of this…
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CultureFlashback Getting A New Sequel For Its 30th Birthday
With its gorgeous hand-drawn backgrounds, stunning (for its time) rotoscoped animation, and engaging science fiction storyline, 1992’s Flashback is one of gaming’s all-time greats. Now original game designer Paul Cuisset is back, supervising a team of developers creating Flashback 2, coming in 2022 for consoles and PC. There’s not a lot of information on the…
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OpinionI Can’t Stop Thinking About This New Hot Wheels Game
Ever since the joy-inducing Hot Wheels expansion pack for Forza Horizon 3 I’ve been craving a high-quality game about racing my favorite toy cars through real-world locations. I’m really hoping September’s Hot Wheels Unleashed is it. Coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, PC, and Switch on September 30, Hot Wheels Unleashed is part racing game, part creative tool.…
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CultureCS:GO Players Can Now Pay A Buck A Month To Access Better Statistics
Why use free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stat tracking websites like csgostats.gg or Leetify when you can now pay a $.99 monthly subscription fee for Valve’s official and less comprehensive CS:GO 360 Stats service? Because they’re free and more comprehensive? Ah. CS:GO’s Operation Broken Fang recently came to a close, but the operation’s stat tracking lives…
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CultureBlizzard Doesn’t Want Diablo Confused With A Cartoon Dog
Seeking to protect its long-held trademark, Blizzard has filed a Notice of Opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to block Fox from trademarking Diablo, one of the canine characters from the upcoming animated series Housebroken. Blizzard’s Diablo is a series of action role-playing video games in which players battle against the forces of…
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CultureCelebrate Star Wars Day With Retro Rainbow Boba Fett
Boba Fett is one of the best-dressed bounty hunters in the Star Wars universe, but what if he wasn’t? Coming this summer to a Target store near you, Hasbro’s Retro Collection Boba Fett Prototype Edition looks sorta like he’s made out of six molded crayons. I love him. Before action figures reach their final form,…
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CultureDestiny 2‘s Season Of The Splicer Dawns On May 11
Goodness, is it season 14 already? Destiny 2‘s Season of the Splicer kicks off May 11, tasking players with hacking the Vex Network from the inside, revisiting the fabled Vault of Glass raid, and changing up their looks with an overly complex transmog system. Season 14 looks to be all about those pesky Vex. The…
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CultureTwitchWatching Animals On Twitch Is My New Daily Dose Of Chill
The baby geese have just started showing up at CritterVision, making things a bit tricky for the squirrels. On HootHouseLivestream, mother Hootie has her wings full with rapidly-growing babies Dax, Jin, San, and Fiz. Speaking of babies, a new litter just arrived at Adorable_Kittens. I’ve become a Twitch nature stream enthusiast over the past month,…
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CultureThe Nintendo Download: Oh Snap
There are only 19 games coming to the Nintendo Switch over the next week, but don’t be sad. One of them is New Pokémon Snap, another is R-Type Final 2, and none of them is sexy anime mah-jong. Actually, I can’t guarantee that none of this week’s releases are sexy mah-jong, but I’m pretty sure.…
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CultureFree Fallout 76: Update Adds An Extra C.A.M.P. And S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Loadouts
The headline for this post would have been “Free Fallout 76 update makes players incredibly happy,” but that would have been too vague. Along with kicking off the game’s fourth season, Cold Steel, the “Locked and Loaded” update finally adds easily swappable S.P.E.C.I.A.L. builds and the ability to build and maintain a second C.A.M.P. slot.…
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ReviewsSwitchNew Pokémon Snap: The Kotaku Review
After 21 years, gaming’s least violent on-rails shooter triumphantly returns to usher in a new generation of Pokémon paparazzi. New Pokémon Snap adds layers of complexity to the monster photo safari without straying too far from what made the original so damn lovable. New Pokémon Snap tasks you with helping Professor Mirror and his research…
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CultureLet’s Build A Zoo Is A Zoo-Building Game With Moral Choices To Make
Coming this summer to PCs everywhere, Springloaded Games’ Let’s Build A Zoo is a charming game about building a fantastical theme park starring nature’s beautiful creatures. Or splicing together animals into hideous hybrids dwelling in a twisted meat factory. How fun! While there’s no real sign of it in this morning’s launch trailer, Let’s Build…
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CultureMonster Hunter Rise 2.0 Launches Today With New Monsters And Stuff
Anyone fancy a tussle with Apex Rathalos, maybe kill it, strip it like a stolen car, and wear its skin like a trophy? That’s a thing you’ll be able to do once today’s Monster Hunter Rise update 2.0 hits later today, bringing with it Apex Rathalos, Apex Diabalos, a trio of elder dragons, layered armor…
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ReviewsToysLego’s Funkiest Line In Years Expands This Summer
The Lego Vidiyo line—launched earlier this year—is supposed to be all about letting kids make augmented videos using licensed music clips, but it’s really a collection of the strangest, most colorful minifigures in Lego history. The line continues this summer with fairies, dragons, slime monsters, cat people, alien rockers, kick-butt interactive stages, and more. I’ve…
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CultureI Need This Vehicle-Building Destruction Game Right Now
Launching into early access on Steam later this year, Instruments of Destruction is a physics-based vehicle-building destruction sandbox from the lead tech designer of Red Faction: Guerrilla. It’s advanced knocking things down from a guy who really knows knocking things down. We’ve been following the work of Radiangames’ founder Luke Schneider for ages here at…
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CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is about slowly and joylessly working through our backlog, somehow dripping with sweat and covered with coal dust. Where did all this sweat-enhancing coal dust come from? Speaking of backlogs, I’ll be spending my weekend free time with the newly released PS5 version (also out for Xbox Series X/S) of Yakuza spinoff Judgment.…
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