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Round Up: The Previews Are In For Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics

Here's what the critics think.Nintendo is launching its Virtual Boy- Nintendo Classics digital library for the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service later this month, and the previews are now in.First up are our own impressions from Nintendo Life staff writer Ollie Reynolds:Read the full article on nintendolife.com ...
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Don’t like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say “that most likely won’t change”

For all of their faults (the list may be endless), the interesting thing about live service games, when done well anyway, is the way they can change from day to day. There's an actual living quality to them that, even if I'll always prefer them, a singleplayer game can't capture ...
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Prince of Persia creator shares his sympathies with The Sands of Time remake devs: “Artists put their hearts into their work”

Last month, Ubisoft pretty unceremoniously cancelled a bunch of games, the most notable of the bunch being that long gestating Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. This came as part of a major restructuring at the company, putting up to 200 jobs at their Paris HQ at risk, ...
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Square Enix’s baffling murder mystery social game Killer Inn gets a quick, free-for-all playtest ahead of its release next week

In a few months time we'll be approaching the anniversary of Square Enix realising that actually, their commitment to releasing certain games only on particular platforms isn't that good for them after all. These following two years will supposedly have been a time of internal change for the studio, with ...
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Is Marvel Super Heroes and Universes Beyond Threatening To Overshadow Magic’s Next In-Universe Set Again?

Magic: The Gathering is continuing where it left off in 2025, rolling out a whopping four crossover sets under its Universes Beyond branding in 2026: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Marvel Super Heroes, The Hobbit, and Star Trek.That’s quite the mix, but at a time when fans are crying out for ...
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Feature: “We Were Quite Nervous” – Star Trek: Voyager – Across The Unknown Dev Talks Returning Actors, Music & Fan Feedback

Switch 2 demo arrives on 9th February.We're fans of the final frontier around these parts, so when our combadges chirruped with news of a Star Trek game for Nintendo's newest console, our anticipation grew like a clutch of tribbles in a grain silo.As you'll have gathered from the title, Star ...
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Exodus’ writer wants to make the Mass Effect successor’s side quests so good you won’t care if you’re rewarded for doing them

You know, you'd think that with decades worth of RPGs in existence, side quests would have been more or less figured out by now. And yet, there are still enough games releasing that seem more interested in going for quantity over quality. But for the devs over at Archetype Entertainment, ...
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I’m certain the pirates in strategy game Menace are laughing at my mistakes

My Menace campaign hasn't been a rousing success. In my first mission, I failed a string of optional objectives and saw one of my squads gunned down by a group of heavily-armed, jetpack-wearing space pirates. I got revenge by running them over with an APC. So, we'll call it a ...
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HBO’s Baldur’s Gate Show Wants To Be a Sequel to BG3. That’s Impossible.

This article contains some spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3. So, HBO is turning Baldur’s Gate into a TV show. On its own, that’s quite an exciting proposition: a big-budget, live-action series set in Dungeons & Dragons’ most iconic city? Yes please. But the project’s announcement, which came courtesy of Deadline, ...
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (7th February)

Directly to you.Just when we thought our wishlists couldn't get any longer, Nintendo had to go and drop another Direct. Let's see who's working through their backlog to make way for the oncoming deluge of releases in another edition of What Are You Playing.The Direct was the big news for ...
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