Hey, remember Pokémon Platinum Version? You know, the best game of Pokémon's best era? Giant fictionalized Hokkaido to explore, evil team that wanted to make the world a nightmare dimension? If you've been hankering to revisit the best of the DS (which I kind of have lately, as it and its rival the PSP re-enter the zeitgeist thanks to hipsters), you no longer have to do it alone. — Read the rest

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After thirteen years of waiting, it feels nothing short of surreal to even think the words 'final GTA 6 trailer'. We've suffered through paywalled advertising, shockingly expensive collectors' editions, and the preceding decade of complete radio silence, but we're finally here. — Read the rest

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Hey, did you know season 2 of Cyberpunk Edgerunners comes out in a week? I was one of many who expected Cyberpunk 2077's tie-in anime to be little more than a one-off, especially since the game's sequel is still years off and will probably be launching for the PS6. — Read the rest

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If you like spacefaring video games in any capacity, you've already heard of Star Citizen, the massive MMO… in SPACE! from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts that's been crowdfunded to the tune of a billion dollars. To hear Roberts and his adherents talk about the game, it'll do everything from buttering your toast to curing cancer… juuuuuust as soon as it releases. — Read the rest

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It's kind of bleak that gambling ads have become so ubiquitous, right? It feels like every time you turn on the TV or click on a YouTube video, you're greeted with some morally bankrupt celebrity — usually Kevin Hart — trying their hardest to make blowing your life savings on a parlay fun. — Read the rest

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I'm about to say something bold and trailblazing: the triple-A game development industry isn't particularly creative and has stagnated significantly, in large part thanks to overinflated budgets bringing with them astronomical revenue goals that heavily discourage risk-taking or innovation. Cower as this fresh young firebrand says what we're all thinking! — Read the rest

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If you've been engaging with the American job market lately, first of all, I'm so sorry. Second of all, you've probably run into an AI-powered "automated recruitment agent": in other words, an AI bot that the company makes you do a one-sided interview with as part of the extended humiliation ritual that is landing a job. — Read the rest

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Remember when the PS5 Pro launched and we all lost our collective minds about it costing $700, which is, to be fair, still an egregious price for a console? Good times.

If only we knew, right? The enormity of the AI component crunch hadn't quite hit us yet, and a future where people could still afford to play video games still seemed possible. — Read the rest

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Only a few days ago, I noted that we're entering another golden age of video game adaptations after the 90s put us off the whole idea for a while. I love when I'm proven right almost immediately.

Unlike The Finals or ARC Raiders, Cyberpunk 2077's biggest strength is arguably its world and story: the game is an adaptation of a tabletop roleplaying universe that's been running since the 80s, and its revised version of that world has spawned spinoffs of its own. — Read the rest

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2014 horror game P.T. has left an enduring legacy behind, just as much for what it wasn't as what it was. It was a pitch-perfect bite-sized horror experience from the mind of gaming auteur Hideo Kojima. It wasn't, however, a full-sized, multi-hour game with a massive bag of tricks — that was teased at the end. — Read the rest

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It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. — Read the rest

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I mean, fair play, if the Hollywood machine can turn games like Minecraft and Call of Duty into movies, nothing is off limits. If you've never played Embark's twin titans The Finals and ARC Raiders, the former is an immensely stylish capture-the-flag shooter with some of the best movement in any game I've played and the latter is an extraction shooter responsible for ruining scores of friendships. — Read the rest

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As a big fan of Naughty Dog's zombie-killing/teenage angst simulator The Last of Us, I was gutted to discover that an ongoing multiplayer mod for The Last of Us: Part 2 had been axed by Sony. The moment you decide to charge for a mod, you're making money off someone else's IP and open to be beheaded for it. — Read the rest

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With the hype behind Grand Theft Auto 6 reaching cataclysmic levels, it was only a matter of time before our other American cultural institutions started taking notice. Let no one say that Saturday Night Live hasn't cast off its reputation for being slightly behind the times: they've finally done a GTA 6 sketch. — Read the rest

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Remember when your friends roped you into Lethal Company, then Peak, then Big Walk, then that game where you just walk around a run-down house picking up leaves? So-called 'friendslop' — a term I really, really hate that describes small, low-scope co-op indie games — has become a thriving industry all its own, rivaling even the dreaded cozy game in its ubiquity. — Read the rest

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I've maintained for a while now that GTA 6's marketing runup has exemplified everything wrong with the way games are sold today, from Rockstar skipping out on making a physical edition to the paywalled trailers to, inexplicably, a Vice City-scented candle. — Read the rest

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Good news today for fans of Hawaiian shirts and punching Bruce Lee: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's action-packed movie about movies, is getting a sequel.

I know what you're thinking: Tarantino hates making sequels! He'll insist to this day that Kill Bill is just one movie! — Read the rest

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is fifteen years old. While it's undoubtedly one of the best games ever made, anything will start to wear thin after a decade and a half, except perhaps true love and/or illegal narcotics. With the sequel still nowhere to be seen outside of vague promises from Bethesda that it is a real game that's still being worked on, we swear, Skyrim's fans have had to get… creative to squeeze more enjoyment out of their favorite game. — Read the rest

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