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Poll: What Score Would You Give The Year Of Shadow? Go On, Tell Us

2024 marked a year-long celebration.2024 is now over and that means the "Year of Shadow" and all of the celebrations related to the "Ultimate Lifeform" are winding down.Sega originally announced this annual campaign in April 2024 and followed it up with all sorts of announcements, merchandise, and toys. Sonic fans ...
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AGDQ 2025 Starts This Weekend, Featuring Crazy Taxi With a Live Band, Elden Ring on a Saxophone, and Much More

At last, it's time for the most exciting live competitive event of the year. No, I don't mean the Super Bowl - it's time for Awesome Games Done Quick, the annual charity speedrunning marathon that features a week of talented gamers showing off the wildest things they can do with ...
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Valve’s Dead TCG Artifact Suddenly Had 12,000 Players on New Year’s Day, and the Community Is Baffled

As we rang in the new year earlier this week, thousands of people seemed to be celebrating in an admittedly unusual way: by playing Valve's 2018 TCG Artifact.Then, as quickly as they started, the 12,000-ish individuals all stopped playing at once on January 3, leaving the game as empty as ...
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First Call of Duty Update of 2025 Ushers in Squid Game Crossover, Increases Mantle Speeds, and Adds a New Wildcard

Call of Duty’s 1.065.000 is now installable, setting the Squid Game crossover for Black Ops 6 and Warzone live.While the Squid Game crossover, alongside its controversial Event Pass, is the highlight of this update, it also makes a number of changes to the first-person shooter, as detailed in the patch ...
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Guide: 161 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo’s ‘Hits For The Holidays’ eShop Sale (North America)

Reminder: It wraps up on Sunday.Just a reminder that Nintendo of America's holiday eShop discounts finish this Sunday night, so if you were waiting for payday to come around before diving back into this monstrous sale, the clock's a-ticking.Well, until the next time 3,000+ games are discounted. Carry on!Read the ...
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Marvel Rivals unbans Steam Deck and Mac players wrongly caught up in cheater purge

Steam Deck, Mac, and other Linux-based enjoyers of superhero shooter hit Marvel Rivals can once again play without fear of being pulped under an unlawfully swung banhammer. Developers NetEase had recently doled out bans of up to 100 years to players they suspected of cheating, but in their eagerness, failed ...
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What to Expect From DC in 2025

Outside of the comics, 2024 was a pretty quiet year for DC. It didn’t help that Joker: Folie à Deux turned out to be one of the year’s biggest box office bombs. But there’s a new hope on the horizon. James Gunn’s DCU is coming, and with it a brand ...
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Tech Fans Have Gone Full ‘Layton’ In Analysing The ‘Switch 2’ Motherboard

Critical thinking is the key to success.Ever since the reveal of the apparent 'Switch 2' motherboard online, fans have been going wild with speculation as to what kind of tech the upcoming new Nintendo console will boast.In fact, we'd say a lot of them could easily become Professor Layton's new ...
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Marvel Rivals Dev Apologizes for Mistakenly Banning Players for Using Cheats

Marvel Rivals developer NetEase has issued an apology to disgruntled players who it unfairly banned for cheating.In a post on Discord, NetEase admitted it had mistakenly flagged as cheaters some who were playing in compatibility layer programs, even though they were not using cheating software. This, unfortunately, resulted in false ...
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Jim Carrey “Open To The Idea” Of Playing Robotnik In Future Sonic Movies

Ivo or Gerald, though?Sonic the Hedgehog 3 marked the return of Jim Carrey after the actor previously claimed that he would likely be retiring from the industry. He didn't just return to play Ivo Robotnik, however, but also took on another role in the form of Gerald Robotnik, Ivo's grandfather ...
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