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The Full Lego Super Mario Launch Lineup Will Run You Nearly $600

Today Nintendo and Lego revealed the full range of Lego Super Mario sets launching on August 1. Between the starter kit, ten expansion packs, four power-up kits, and a series of blind bag characters, the whole starting lineup will run collectors around $590. Don’t worry, parents of young children. There is no reason to collect…

Bandai’s Newest Gundam Model Is Excellent For Posing

The newly released Gundam Beyond Global model has enough points of articulation that a variety of very cool and humorous poses are possible. As Mecha Catalogue reports, this High Grade RX-78-2 Gundam is a completely new kit and is part of Gunpla’s 40th anniversary. Below are some examples of the articulation, which really makes this…

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EVE Online Mini-Game Lets Players Help In The Fight Against Covid-19

EVE Online players are once again being given an opportunity to do real-world science from the comfort of their spaceships. Today marks the launch of the third time EVE’s Project Discovery mini-game has been re-imagined. Project Discovery is an in-game tool that enables EVE players to serve as citizen scientists. In the past they’ve helped…

Klei’s excellent turn-based stealth game Invisible Inc is now on Nintendo Switch. The Switch version includes the Contingency Plan DLC.

How To Find Modern Warfare‘s Hidden Teddy Bear Militia

An army of teddy bears lurks in a very inconspicuous place within Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and they’re packing quite a lot of firepower. A new season of content arrived on June 11 for Modern Warfare and Warzone, including the new “Trench” 2v2 Gunfight map. At first glance, Trench is a typical Gunfight map,…

The folks behind indie darling Night in the Woods are working on a new game Not much is known about the new project from worker-owned co-op The Glory Society, but it’s definitively not a sequel according to creative director Scott Benson. For now, just enjoy the GIF.

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As reported last month, the latest Pokémon animated feature Pocket Monsters the Movie: Coco will be delayed in Japan due to covid-19. It was originally slated for July, but is now scheduled for “this winter.” Since 1998, Pokémon feature anime films have been released every July in Japan—except for this one. 

Now For Some Pokémon Boots

Chinese Zara stores have started selling these Pokémon boots, which don’t just look surprisingly cool, but are also downright affordable. Normally when we post about some weird Pokémon collab with a fashion house that sits anywhere above Uniqlo or Adidas on the prestige chain, the price tag looks like the $250 Glamb were asking for…

Overwatch Anime Opening Was Made By One Guy

Joshee Kis to thank for this amazing Overwatch video, imagining the series was an anime with this being the intro. Any one-person animation job is impressive, but the fact it runs for 1:55—an eternity in this situation—makes it even moreso.

Among Trees, a wicked pretty survival game, is now in early access on the Epic Games Store. It looks extremely my jam.

Gonner 2, a sequel to the very excellent platformer Gonner, is coming in “late 2020.” Looks like it will be on Steam and Switch.

Some Of The People During Yesterday’s PS5 Event Were CGI And You Can’t Convince Me Otherwise

While Sony’s PS5 reveal event yesterday was pre-recorded rather than live, it still showed plenty of faces talking about video games. Some people would tell you that all of these faces—which all had the same silky sheen and washed out glow despite recording from seperate rooms—belonged to real people standing in front of real cameras.…

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Comparing The PS5 Demon’s Souls‘ Remake Screenshots To The PS3 Original

As Kotaku reported yesterday, a Demon’s Souls remake is coming to the PlayStation 5. Let’s see how the screenshots compare to those from the PlayStation 3 original. There is the obviously massive leap in rendering due to the innate hardware differences: Below are more comparisons via Twitter user illusorywall / bucky.

Our Favorite Smaller Games From Today’s PS5 Reveal Event

Sony’s finally revealed the PlayStation 5, along with a pleasant selection of launch-window games. Between massive reveals like Demon’s Souls remake, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Resident Evil 8: Village, Gran Turismo 7, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart came smaller but no less intriguing surprises. Here are some of our favorites. Ian Walker — Pragmata I…

Your PC must be this powerful to play Death Stranding. Kojima’s Norman Reedus doing stuff simulator comes to PC on July 14, with modest system requirements as befitting a port of a late-life PlayStation 4 game. You’ll need beefier hardware for 4K but for 1080p previous-generation graphics hardware will do just fine.

A limited preview of Session, the upcoming skateboarding simulator from creā-ture Studios, is now available on Xbox One. The two-hour trial is meant to act as an appetizer leading up to the Xbox Game Preview release on June 17. Session has been in early access on Steam since September 2019.

Japanese Murder Hornet, The Posable Toy

The Asian giant hornet (aka Vespa mandarinia, aka THE MURDER HORNET) is scary and dangerous! But that hasn’t stopped Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo from churning out a posable one. In Japanese, the insect is called suzumebachi. This figure is not to scale! The larger size, I guess, makes it easier to pose the stinger and…