Belgian gymnast Nina Derwael made history on the weekend after winning gold on the women’s uneven bars, the country’s first medal of any color in the sport. However gamers were quick to notice that Derwael’s coach Marjorie Heuls showed a surprising good luck charm to the cameras after the win–an …
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Sega’s cult classic beat ’em up series Streets of Rage is officially 30 years old today, as the first game in the series launched on the Mega Drive on August 2, 1991 in Japan. Arriving at a time where games such as Final Fight and Golden Axe had been best-sellers …
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The 2020 Olympics have begun in Tokyo, Japan, and the country that brought us many of video games’ most esteemed franchises did not disappoint in representing them. Traditionally, the Olympics Opening Ceremonies includes every team competing in that year’s games walking into the stadium. Tokyo kept the tradition, but this …
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The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games could come to other platforms in the future, according to a Q&A posted by Square Enix. In the Q&A, translated by Siliconera, one of the questions was why Steam and mobile phones were chosen for the Pixel Remaster of Final Fantasy I-VI. The answer …
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Apple announced a pair of games coming to its Apple Arcade subscription service, one a twist on an old classic and the other a port of a recent Japanese RPG. Tetris Beat and Monster Hunter Stories will join the service soon. Tetris Beat is branded as an Apple Original from …
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The latest licensed DLC for Minecraft has been announced, and it’s out now. Illumination Entertainment’s Minions franchise is now available in Minecraft through the Minions x Minecraft DLC. The little yellow Minion creatures are included in the DLC, along with skins for Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes. Additionally, the …
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While Minecraft is generally considered a great child-friendly game, a law in South Korea has resulted in the game being blocked off to all players under the age of 19. The ban isn’t anything to do with any of Minecraft’s content, but the fact that an Xbox Live account is …
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Via new Steam listings, Square Enix released teaser images for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games. To put it politely, choices were made regarding the new font in the remastered games, and the internet largely thinks they were bad ones. You can check out a few in-game screenshots below that …
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Minecraft alpha version 1.1.1, an extremely rare build of the game that was only available for a few hours back in 2010, has finally been recovered thanks to some digital sleuthing. Back in the early days of Minecraft–before it was the gaming behemoth that we know today–the game was often …
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Shovel Knight recently turned seven years old, and his creators at Yacht Club Games celebrated the occasion by looking back not at his own game, but at the numerous cameos he’s made since his debut. We haven’t seen ubiquity like this outside of plumbers and hedgehogs. The blog post at …
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