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Faker becomes an honorary Korean police officer to help discourage online gambling

Lee Sang-hyeok, better known to his fans as Faker, is perhaps the most enduring and successful esports pro of all time, with—among a great many other honors—a record six League of Legends world championships to his name stretching back to 2013. When he re-signed with T1 in 2022, the team called him the "Unkillable Demo...

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Seed Will Let You Run Your Own Government, If You Grow Enough Tomatoes First

Just don't get jaundice

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A Bunch of Nintendo LEGO Sets Are Retiring and Going Away Forever

Around 20 LEGO sets themed after Nintendo games and properties are becoming forever unavailable after being retired from the official store next week. LEGO is releasing a massive wave of new sets on August 1, and while this is a good reason to celebrate for new and old fans alike, it also means that a lot of currently...

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Super Mario Galaxy Movie's Fox And Yoshi Were The Reason For New Games

It’s been a pretty good year for Nintendo’s more fringe characters. Not only did we have a new Star Fox game release for the first time in over a decade, but we also got a new Yoshi game too, albeit one more marketed towards Nintendo’s younger audience.

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Is Avatar Legends THE Fighting Game We Needed? - Review Roundup

Avatar the Last Air Bender and its various spin-offs and connected material is one of the most beloved properties in media, so it is not shocking that a franchise like this would finally get its own fighting game. Now that the reviews are in, does it hold up against its own source material and the wave of licensed figh...

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A Dragon Ball Z Converse Collection is Dropping This Week

Sneakerheads and fans of Dragon Ball Z will want to mark July 23 on their calendars, as Converse has revealed a new sneaker and apparel collection inspired by the beloved series. Three decades after its final episode aired, Dragon Ball Z reveals one of the most lauded shonen series of all time, with legions of fans aro...

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Final Fantasy 10 Still Has The Best Game Opening In The Series

The PS2 entry narrowly edges out Final Fantasy VII for best opening in the series

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Final Fantasy 14 Has Climbed Above 1 Million Active Characters

Final Fantasy 14 has been suffering a pretty nasty player bleed ever since the launch of Dawntrail, and that’s for a few reasons. Of course, Dawntrail was kind of mediocre, which was a big letdown after the massive high that was Endwalker, but there was always going to be a massive falloff after Endwalker’s incredible...

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Palworld: Legendary Fishing Rod Schematics Location

In Palworld, crafting schematics for legendary fishing rods can be obtained randomly by opening chests found in high-level Syndicate sea bases, or by salvaging piles of scrap floating in the ocean. There's going to be a fair bit of luck involved in both of these methods, and the latter will also require a small resourc...

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If You Loved The Dreamcast, You Need To Play Denshattack

While I’m a giant, stupid Nintendo fanboy, the Sega Dreamcast is easily in my top three favorite consoles of all time. It hit at the perfect time for me: High school. And despite being massively into video games, tabletop RPGs, and wearing clothes that looked like they were shot out of a cannon, I actually had a great...

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Laid off Bethesda Montreal staff allegedly told they'd get "smallest severance legally possible" the same day as those Fallout announcements

Last week, in the wake of yet another round of mass layoffs across the company, Xbox announced that Fallout 5 is in preproduction, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are coming, and that Obsidian are working on a new Fallout project. If you were to ignore the 1600 staffers laid off and the ongoing call for a boycott due...

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StarCraft 2 is included in Blizzard's BlizzCon digital goodies, which is more evidence a new game will be announced soon, right?

Not to fully transform into the Pepe Silvia meme pointing at a wall of "evidence" but I'm convinced Blizzard is gearing up to announce something StarCraft-related at BlizzCon this year.The first reliable clue came from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier's 2024 book on Blizzard's history where he said the studio was "inc...

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