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Tips & GuidesCan’t Find Pokémon Home On Mobile? Open Up Your Browser
After much anticipation, Pokémon Home came out Tuesday—but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from checking your phone. For whatever reason, the catchall Pokémon storage center does not appear if you search for it on a mobile device’s app store. For those who may not know, Pokémon Home is Nintendo’s cloud storage service for Pokémon. The…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Make Short Work Of Mama Tick In The New Dead Cells DLC
Dead Cells is a satisfyingly complex roguelite with fast-paced combat, Metroid-style exploration, and gorgeously rendered medieval environments. It will also kick your ass in a thousand ways. This week, Dead Cells added yet another method of ass-kicking: Mama Tick. Mama Tick is the boss of “Bad Seed,” the new Dead Cells DLC that’s out today…
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Tips & GuidesHeads Up: You’ll Need To Manage The Bioshock Collection’s Limited Save Space
If you use up the BioShock collection’s limited space for making saves while playing BioShock 1, you won’t be able to save at all once you start playing BioShock 2 Yesterday was BioShock 2’s 10-year anniversary, and the remastered collection containing all three games is currently available to download as part of PlayStation Plus. As…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Squeeze The Most Legendary Gear Out Of Borderlands 3‘s New Event
There’s really only one reason people play Borderlands 3, and it’s not the story. It’s the guns. And right now, there are more awesome guns than you can shake a Claptrap at. Borderlands games feature a mind-boggling amount of weaponry. It’s kind of their thing. The first game featured 17.75 million different guns. In pre-launch…
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Tips & GuidesThe First Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass Was Definitely Worth It
Earlier this week, Nintendo added a new fighter to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the company’s wildly popular Fire Emblem-themed fighting game. Byleth, the player character from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, is the sixth new fighter to join the roster since Smash Ultimate’s December 2018 launch. Starting with Piranha Plant, in January 2019, Nintendo has rolled…
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Tips & GuidesEverything You Need to Know About Battlefield V‘s ‘Into the Jungle’ Update
Like an Instagram influencer in search of new content, Battlefield V has booked a trip to the Solomon Islands. In an announcement video this morning, Battlefield publisher EA revealed the first Tides of War update of 2020 will feature a return to the Pacific Theater. Out Thursday, February 6, “Chapter 6: Into the Jungle” will…
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Tips & GuidesThis Year’s Dawning Event Is A Huge Gift To Players Grinding Destiny 2‘s Season Pass
Destiny 2’s seasonal “Dawning” event is showering players in experience points, helping to ease the months-long grind through the game’s second battle pass-style reward progression. The event went live last week and will remain in effect until January 14. During that time the Tower will have a nice, festive dusting of snow and players will…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Get Destiny 2’s Buggy New Obelisk Working
It’s the second week of Destiny 2’s new Season of Dawn, which means there’s a new Obelisk for players to activate. That’s easier said than done, though, thanks to a bug that prevents you from being able to interact with it. The latest Obelisk appears in the Gulch section of the European Dead Zone. Like…
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Tips & GuidesPSA: If Destiny 2‘s Osiris Says He Doesn’t Have New Quests, Keep Asking
Destiny 2‘s Season of Dawn began today, and with it came all sorts of changes, including the return of the mysterious exiled Warlock Osiris. He has new quests for you, but for some reason, he likes to hide them. Osiris appears to be the main quest giver this season, and as a result, players will…
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Tips & GuidesBuyer Beware: Nintendo’s Black Friday Switch Bundle Is The Old, Low-Battery Model
Some Black Friday Switch Bundles Include Older Versions Of The Console With Worse Battery Life There’s a $300 Switch bundle that includes a digital version of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on sale this Black Friday at a lot of stores. It would be a solid deal, but there’s a catch: The bundle includes the original…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Kill Jedi: Fallen Order‘s Oggdo Bogdo More Easily
The key to beating one of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s earliest optional boss fights is to start it off with a jump attack. If that attack connects successfully, you’re golden. If not, you’re in for a world of pain. Oggdo Bogdo is a giant black alien toad on the first planet you go to…
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Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Pokémon Sword And Shield
Pokémon Sword and Shield are out today. While everyone has their own strategies for battling, raising your Pokémon and becoming the Champion, Sword and Shield have some new features and new ways to make all your monsters the very best. If you’re just starting out in your journey through Galar, here’s some tips to get…
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Tips & GuidesPokémon Sword and Shield: Which To Buy?
While I’ve been spending a lot of time with Pokémon Shield, Natalie Degraffinried has been exploring Pokémon Sword. As is tradition for Pokémon, each version of this game has exclusive Pokémon, and this one has some version-exclusive gym leaders as well. We sat down to talk about what’s different between each version. While choosing a…
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