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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Dev Says Game Pass Helped Convince People Who Were ‘On the Fence’ to Try the Game — but Now the Challenge Is to Convince Them to Stick Around

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launched day one on Game Pass — the first Call of Duty game to do so following Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.It was a big gamble for Microsoft, with some analysts predicting a significant decline in game sales, particularly on Xbox, as ...
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Here are the patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing Palworld about, according to Pocketpair

Palworld developers Pocketpair have finally revealed which patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing them about. It looks like they're focusing on the act of throwing capsular items to catch or release monsters, together with the usage of monsters as mounts. If you've somehow yet to encounter Palworld, it's ...
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Pokémon TCG Pocket Passes 30 Million Downloads in 9 Days

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket has surpassed 30 million downloads in the nine days it's been available, developer Creatures Inc. has announced.Word of the milestone came via the Pokémon TCG Pocket X/Twitter, where the development team thanks players for their support. "Thirty million?! How many packs have been opened, then?," ...
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Toads Of The Bayou is Into The Breach but with aristocratic, pipe smokin’ toads (of the bayou)

In all honesty, Toads Of The Bayou could have been several notches less ribbet-ing than its Steam demo ended up being, because its stylised pixel fly-snatchers are just that good. There’s only one of the three characters available in the freebie (one of the others is a toad nun with ...
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Random: ‘Nintendo Music’ Is Seemingly Being Advertised On Spotify

Cheeky cheeky.With the launch of Nintendo Music, fans now have a legitimate opportunity to check out some of the very best soundtrack's from Nintendo's storied history. Yes, it's a bit barebones at the moment, but we've no doubt it will be expanded upon significantly in the coming months and years.It ...
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Pokémon TCG Pocket Adds New Rewards and Missions to Wonder Pick Event

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket players can now participate in the Wonder Pick Event Part 2, which adds new rewards and missions to the game today, November 8.This second half of the event, which offers players a free Wonder Pick with the chance of pulling either a Meowth or Chansey ...
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The co-creator of magic puzzler Hidden Folks is making a sumptuous, spaced-out tower defender

Could tower defence be the ultimate "it's Friday and I am here in body only" genre? I haven't really thought about it before, but Rift Riff's effusively laidback crowd control has me pondering those optimal moments in any tower defender when the incoming horde hits the flamer-MG triangle just right, ...
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Apex Legends is revisiting the past, but it should be prouder of its present

Nostalgia, when you think about it, is bollocks. There has never been a better time than right this second – averaged out, and despite repeated attempts to the contrary, humanity has never been healthier, freer, or more enlightened by knowledge. It’s true of games too. For every by-committee platter of ...
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PS5 Exclusive Astro Bot Sells 1.5 Million in 2 Months

Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies so far, Sony has announced.As part of its latest financial results, Sony revealed that the PlayStation 5 exclusive platformer sold 1.5 million as of November 3, just shy of two months after its September 6 release date.Astro Bot, developed by Sony-owned Team Asobi ...
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New Action RPG ‘Farmagia’ Celebrates Switch Launch With Free DLC Skins

A "baby tomato" skin is available now.Marvelous launched its new action RPG Farmagia on the Switch last week and it's now been announced the title will be receiving some free DLC skins the month.Read the full article on nintendolife.com ...
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