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  The BestsGames

  The Best Games For The Game Boy Advance 25 Years After It Launched

  Nintendo's most humble handheld was full of great releases

  Kotaku Staff Published March 23, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Slay The Spire 2 Promises To Patch Out 1 Billion HP Exploit As It Sells A Whopping 3 Million Copies In Just One Week

  The game is doing gangbusters and it's still only in Early Access

  By Ethan Gach Published March 14, 2026
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  EntertainmentSuperhero

  It Feels Impossible To Trust Anything People Are Saying About Avengers: Doomsday Right Now

  The Marvel fandom has been stuck in a cycle of misinformation for years, and AI has made it worse

  By Kenneth Shepard Published December 19, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Dishonored And Deus Ex Lead Reflects On Arkane Austin’s Closure: ‘It Was A Shock Because We Had Done Really Good Work’

  The studio’s final project was the ill-fated Redfall before it was shut down in 2024

  By Kenneth Shepard Published December 16, 2025
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  CultureFeature

  The Outer Worlds 2 Gave Me Exactly What I Wanted From An RPG Inventory System And I Hated It

  An RPG without encumbrance seemed like the holy grail, but it didn’t exactly turn out that way

  Jen Lennon Published December 4, 2025
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  CultureNews

  GameStop Is Threatening Pokémon Scalpers With Lifetime Bans If They Catch Them Weighing Packs

  As scalpers keep finding new ways to make Pokémon worse, GameStop says it will ban customers who try to game the system

  By Kenneth Shepard Published November 24, 2025
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  CultureNews

  A New Splinter Cell Was In Development Until Ubisoft Spiked It To Make A Live-Service Game

  Some former Telltale devs were excited to work on the stealth franchise, but it eventually became XDefiant

  By Zack Zwiezen Published November 14, 2025
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  CultureNews

  This Game Tests If People Know How Much Porn Characters Have On The Internet, And They’re Failing

  Rule34dle is exactly what it sounds like, and it’s terrifying

  By Kenneth Shepard Published November 10, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Pokémon Legends: Z-A Pokes Fun At The Most Annoying Kind Of Fan, And It Rules

  The most obnoxious Pokémon trainer is one that tells you what you’re supposed to be getting out of it

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 20, 2025
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  CultureNews

  The Only Reason Outer Worlds 2 Has A Third-Person Mode Is Because Fans Begged For It

  Obsidian didn't plan on including the option in the upcoming space RPG and tapped an outside studio to help make it happen

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 15, 2025