Nintendo Didn't Celebrate Its 100th Birthday

Nintendo Didn’t Celebrate Its 100th Birthday

“Keep calm when you’re happy, keep calm when you’re unhappy”. During the tenure of the late Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo went from being a playing card manufacturer to one of the most recognisable companies in the world—yet, despite this amazing evolution, Yamauchi ensured that his firm never allowed its newfound fame to change the way it…

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A Wave of Change: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Category: Announcements May 5, 2025 A Wave of Change: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Team Xbox Summary Celebrating API Culture and Creativity: Xbox honors the rich cultural heritage and creativity of Asian and Pacific Islander communities, showcasing how these diverse voices have enriched the gaming world.  Highlighting Games Inspired by API Heritage: Discover…

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Where Winds Meet: hands-on report

Ambitious in size and scope, Where Winds Meet’s Wuxia-inspired free-to-play open-world adventure is nearly ready for its PS5 bow. And after spending a lot of time triple-jumping up trees and facing down bandits in the beta, I explored why Everstone Studio’s spin on 10th century China is already turning heads ahead of its November 14…

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Random: Modder Turns The Nightmarish “PlayStacean” Into A Real PlayStation Console

“Yes, the claw controller is fully functional. No, it is not comfortable to use”. When League of Legends concept artist Anh Dang came up with the crab-like “PlayStacean” console, she couldn’t possibly have realised that this amusing pun would, one day, become a fully functional console—but that’s precisely what has happened. Modder GingerOfMods has taken…

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‘Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever’: Bungie’s doubling down on security following Arc Raiders’ recent foibles

As we’ve learned from the likes of Arc Raiders as of late, cheating and exploits are absolutely game-breaking in an extraction shooter. The recent item duplication glitch forced Embark to dish out warnings and bans after it broke the in-game economy, though there have been fears over big-name content creators getting preferential treatment. Bungie has…

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Japan: Square Enix trademarks Chocobo Grand Prix

Square Enix has clearly been carefully watching how the recent influx of karting games have been performing from a sales point of view as they have recently trademarked Chocobo Grand Prix. Trademarks were made for “Chocobo GP” and “Chocobo Grand Prix” on Tuesday, 1st December. As news publication Gematsu reports, these new trademarks could be…

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All Genshin Impact 6.0 livestream codes

The Genshin Impact 6.0 codes are here, and with them, our first proper look at the upcoming region of Nod-Krai. Though Nod-Krai is technically autonomous, we’re finally headed to the last Archon-inhabited region of Snezhnaya (though we’ll likely be going to Khaenri’ah in the future at some point). What better way to celebrate than some…

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Forget Skull and Bones, there’s another pirate game out on Steam this week that’s plundered my heart with turn-based naval combat and pirate presidential campaigns

After years of delays, disappointing previews, and a beta our own Tyler Wilde described as “cheesy and unnatural”, I think it’s fair to say a bit of scepticism about the launch of Skull and Bones this Friday is sensible. Hopefully it is good, but if it does turn out to be a load of old…

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