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  CultureOdds and Ends

  Final Fantasy VII Remake Almost Ruined Cloud’s Sword

  The developers were briefly worried it looked too goofy

  By Ethan Gach Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Geoff Keighley Explains Why The Game Awards Is Full Of Trailers

  The host talks about a difficult balancing act

  By Ethan Gach Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Amazon Multiplayer Game Reportedly Got 10x Fewer Players Than It Was Hoping For

  New report suggests King of Meat did not meet expectations

  By Nicole Carpenter Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Netflix Considers Warner Bros. Games To Be Pretty Much Worthless

  The entire gaming division behind Hogwarts Legacy and the Arkham franchise wasn't even factored into the price of Netflix's bid

  By John Walker Published December 9, 2025
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  OpinionImpressions

  I Want To Give Skate Story Another Shot, But It Makes A Rough First Impression

  The gorgeous, ethereal skate game is available to PlayStation Plus subscribers

  By Kenneth Shepard Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Perfect Dark Reboot Bosses Building A New Studio With 2K Games

  Also: Stranger Things comes to Flight Sim, Resident Evil 2's director reveals why it included no returning characters, and Nightreign DLC is doing well

  By Zack Zwiezen Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  PlayStation Store Leak Finally Confirms Leon Is In Resident Evil Requiem After Endless Speculation

  The series star is back in the latest entry

  By Ethan Gach Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Bethesda Still Beating Skyrim Like A Dead Horse With Switch 2 Version

  14 years after launch, there's yet one more way to play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

  By Zack Zwiezen Published December 9, 2025
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  CulturePokemon

  Masked Gang Steals $100,000 Of Pokémon Cards In Latest In String Of Robberies

  It's believed the same group is robbing multiple Southern California card stores

  By John Walker Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureNews

  This Might Be The Worst Thing Overwatch 2 Has Ever Done

  The Fortnite-ification of Blizzard’s hero shooter just hit a new low

  By Kenneth Shepard Published December 9, 2025
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  ReviewsSwitch

  Kirby Air Riders: The Kotaku Review

  The pink puffball's frenzied racer wears its shallowness on its sleeve

  Jake Steinberg Published December 9, 2025
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  CultureRetro

  The Battle Of The Translucent N64s Has Arrived

  Analogue responds to the M64 with its own colorful variants

  By Ethan Gach Published December 8, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Star Wars KOTOR 2 Remake Revealed In Court Docs

  It's unclear if the remake of Obsidian's Knights of the Old Republic 2 is still in development or not

  By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2025
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  ReviewsPC

  I Don’t Think We’d Be Talking Much About Horses If It Hadn’t Been Banned

  The horror game was banned from Steam and Epic, and the resulting furor feels needlessly intense after playing it

  By Kenneth Shepard Published December 8, 2025
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  CultureNews

  Dildos, Dogs, And Lint: GameStop’s ‘Trade Anything Day’ Ranges From Chaos To Nightmare

  The meme stock store stunt led to all sorts of weird donations

  By Ethan Gach Published December 8, 2025
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  Opinion

  Halo Infinite Is Four Years Old Today And It’s Bumming Me Out

  Remember what Halo Infinite was supposed to be? I do

  By Alyssa Mercante Published December 8, 2025
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  Tips & Guides

  7 Things To Know Before Playing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

  We have some advice to help you and Samus survive your time on Viewros

  By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2025
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  CulturePokemon

  Watch Pokémon And Yu-Gi-Oh’s Heroes Duke It Out In A Pure ’90s Nostalgia Bomb

  Death Battle is back with a video pitting Ash Ketchum and Yugi Moto against one another

  By Kenneth Shepard Published December 8, 2025
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  ReviewsSwitch

  Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: The Kotaku Review

  Nintendo’s final big game of 2025 doesn’t really deliver after all the years of waiting

  By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2025
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  CultureNews

  The Streamer Awards Were A Reminder Of How Streaming Rewards Bad Behavior

  QTCinderella’s fifth-annual Streamer Awards was a tough watch

  By Alyssa Mercante Published December 8, 2025