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Nintendo Is Raising Its Employee Pay By 10% In Japan

Furukawa: "It's important for our long-term growth".Despite a downturn in sales and profits for Nintendo in its third quarter, it's reportedly raising the base salaries of its employees by 10% in its homeland.A report by Reuters reveals the Japanese video game giant is taking action to secure the "long-term growth" ...
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Amazon Is Running a Buy 2, Get 1 50% Off Sale

Amazon is running another of its excellent buy one, get one 50% off deals. Now I will admit, I was thrown a bit by the "Buy 2, Get 1 50% Off" phrasing, but according to the sale page, that just means if you buy two items, one of them will ...
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Nintendo Direct February 2023: How to Watch and What to Expect

Nintendo fans, rejoice! A brand-new Nintendo Direct is on its way and it will be here tomorrow, February 8, with roughly 40 minutes of updates focused mostly on Switch games planned for release in the first half of 2023.IGN is carrying the stream and, as usual, this watch guide will ...
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Transport Tycoon fan remake OpenTTD gets largest update in years

OpenTTD 13.0 been released, which is "one of the largest releases we've done in several years" according to the developers. If you don't know OpenTTD, it's an open source and free fan remake of Transport Tycoon which greatly expands, polishes and modernises the beloved business sim. This latest update improves ...
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Azul Board Game Review

Azul is named after azuleijos, the brightly coloured geometric tiles sported by beautiful buildings across North Africa and Portugal; the Portuguese learned to make them from the Moors. The board game has become a celebrated design in its own right, popular enough to launch several sequels which use the same ...
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Watch 9 minutes of lightsaber combat in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Last week, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was delayed until April so that Respawn could polish their lightsaber until it truly glowed. Now IGN have released a new, nine minute video showing some exploration and much stabbing from an early section of the game. Read more ...
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Atari Is Releasing a $1,000 Boxset for Its 50th Anniversary and It’s Only Making 100 of Them

Atari is celebrating its 50th anniversary in style with a $999.99 collectible boxset that features 10 Atari 2600 cartridges with reimagined artwork, acrylic toppers that light up when inserted into the console, and more. Oh, and there will only be 100 of them available worldwide.As detailed by Atari, these cartridges ...
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One of Sonic’s most beloved 3D outings is now available on PC

Sonic Colours was first released on Wii in 2010, prompting Sonic fans to declare, "hooray, Sonic is good again!" and non-Sonic fans to declare, "alright, fine, I agree this one is OK, but can we now talk about something else?". Sonic Colours: Ultimate upscaled the graphics and added a new ...
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Feature: Our Predictions For The February 2023 Nintendo Direct

Zelda! Pikmin! ...Metroid..?What's that, you say? There's going to be another Nintendo Direct? Great Scott! This is heavy...Yes, Nintendo is back with another showcase focusing on games launching in the first half of 2023. Well, mostly... Hi there, Metroid Prime 4. Hi... Please show yourself. Please?Read the full article on ...
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5 Ways Minecraft Legends Twists PvP into a Brand New Action-Strategy Experience

Minecraft Legends, the upcoming game from Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive is “not your normal strategy game,” according to Principal Design Director, Craig Leigh. Appearing on the Xbox Podcast last week, Leigh dove into multiple ways the new title (coming on April 18 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC ...
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