The Nintendo Switch has been a highly successful console for Nintendo, selling 63 million units worldwide as of Nov. 2020. In traditional fandom fashion, many have taken to making custom Switch consoles themselves, referencing everything from popular memes to blockbuster movie franchises.
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Survival horror continues to be a robust video game genre in 2020. While this year probably didn't see any original horror titles that are going to launch a new franchise, like a Silent Hill or a Resident Evil, it still offered plenty of jump-scares, gore, and disturbing scenes.
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Its arrival on Nintendo's miniature hardware gave it the ability to be compatible with yet another Game Boy multiplayer enabled peripheral. It also holds the distinction of being the only FPS to ever see a release on the Game Boy. The game we're speaking of is the little known Faceball 2000.
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This is no Super Mario Bros., sealed NES copies of which sold for just over $100,000 in 2019 and then $114,000 in 2020. The rarest Game Boy game is Spud's Adventure. Spud's Adventure, as could be expected from a non-iconic title, sells for a price closer to ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut.
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This game was not only the first entry in the Fire Emblem series, but it also never saw store shelves outside of Japan—until this week.
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Usually, console updates feature quality of life improvements that help streamline experiences and add new features. However, companies sometimes sneak in changes that displease a chunk of their audiences, which is the case with the recent Nintendo Switch update.
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Gorons are some of The Legend of Zelda's most popular characters; they've been in every Zelda game in one iteration or another, and you meet many different Gorons throughout the course of the series.
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Long before the era of walkthroughs, guides, and data mining, fans were left to take whatever they heard at the playground about a specific video game as the truth. One of these infamous rumors revolved around a mysterious Pokémon known as MissingNo., a top secret Pokémon.
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When it comes to SEGA, everyone has become accustomed to seeing the world's most recognizable "Blue Blur" hold down the fort for the Japanese publisher/developer. But at one point in time, Sonic wasn't the sole mascot for the company.
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Fortnite: Chapter 2 - Season 5 is well under way, and this time, the battle royale game is bringing in a few new friends. This season's plot revolves around Agent Jonesy recruiting hunters, heroes, and everyone in between, and the battle pass is already turning heads with The Mandalorian.
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Nintendo has been a pioneer in the video game industry for almost 40 years. It's a gaming giant that, on the surface, appears to be incapable of folly. That said, it is not an infallible company, and there are plenty of moments in its history that Nintendo wants you to forget.
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If Black Ops - Cold War left you wanting more, check out the following games.
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Fortnite: Chapter 2 - Season 5 continues to revolve around the Zero Point, the ongoing mystery of the time-looping island that players ransack every match, and Agent Jonesy.
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For those who missed the legendary Galactus event, here's a quick summary of how things unfolded and what this means for the future of Fortnite.
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Motion Twin's Castlevania-inspired game Dead Cells is kicking off the new year with a brand new DLC called Fatal Falls. The $4.99 content, which will include two new biomes and a boss, will arrive roughly one year after Motion Twin released Dead Cells' Bad Seed DLC. Fatal Falls is expected in 2021.
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Last year, Apex Legends came up with the Holo-Day Bash, which featured the Winter Express train mission and a number of seasonal skins. Apex Legends brought back the event again this year, and gamers looked forward to seeing what new goodies were in store. They were not happy with what they found.
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A brand new update to Dauntless, called Dauntless Reforged, is coming on Dec. 3. The update serves to improve upon the key elements of developer Phoenix Lab's free-to-play co-op beast-hunting game. A small collection of new features and tools will be available as a free addition to Dauntless.
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Genshin Impact has received numerous awards. The game gained wide recognition for its ambitious open world that could be played on consoles, PC, and mobile devices. miHoYo, the company behind the game, is now able to confidently say that its efforts were definitely rewarded.
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Fortnite's Galactus event was so popular that Twitch malfunctioned at the event's end, presumably due to the high volume of viewers watching Fortnite streams across several channels. Reports flooded in from Twitch users regarding a handful of issues that made the streaming site basically unusable.
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The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope has collapsed this week after mechanical trouble. The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope was made famous not only for its aid in many scientific discoveries, but also its appearances in GoldenEye, as well as a handful of science fiction films.
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While there is a lot to discover in-game about every race in The Elder Scrolls universe, one group stands out as difficult to pin down: the elves. This is the untold truth of The Elder Scrolls' elves.
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March 31 will be Nintendo's darkest day. That's when a bunch of Mario games as well as the Game & Watch will no longer be available.
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Grand Theft Auto has come a long way since its original inception.
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Indie studio Romero hoped to cash in on the longevity of the gangster genre 90 years later with its release of the strategy based game, Empire of Sin, out Dec 1.
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Nintendo rolled out a new update for the Switch this week, bringing a ton of additional features and small changes. Among these is a new Nintendo Switch Online button on the home screen, as well as ways to transfer screenshots, both of which have led fans to conflicted feelings about Version 11.0.0.
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Super Smash Bros. has become one of the most beloved fighting games in video game history, but it almost didn't see the light of day. Here's why the original Super Smash Bros. nearly didn't happen.
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One of the main types of action games that can be seen across numerous consoles are the ones that let you live out your ninja-based fantasies. The Game Boy Advance made sure to offer that type of experience with a little known action platformer from Konami/Hudson Soft. That one game is Ninja Five-O.
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