Online services for Razer’s Ouya and Forge TV services will shut down at the end of June, Razer announced today. The shutdown brings to an end the ambitious, turbulent, and mostly unsuccessful travails of the crowdfunded console for Android video games. Ouya as a device was discontinued back in 2015, when Razer bought the startup company and merged its content […]
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Fortnite’s 9.0 update is live on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile, kicking off Season 9 of the hit battle royale game. Alongside the update comes Week 1’s challenges, and if you manage to finish each of the seven, you’ll complete one of the game’s Utopia challenges–this season’s equivalent of the Discovery challenges from Season 8. Completing a […]
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Blizzard has rolled out the Rise of Shadows add-on in Hearthstone, setting the expansion’s new cards free to weak havoc and unlock new combos in the game’s competitive modes. Now, the League of EVIL get more time in the spotlight thanks to the single-player campaign, The Dalaran Heist. Hearthstone’s solo adventures are a distinct change from the game’s competitive modes, […]
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Who would have thought that, one day, we’d have a live-action Pokemon movie with a talking Pikachu. It’s a truly a weird and wild world we live in, and that day has arrived. Detective Pikachu brings one of gaming’s most iconic characters to the big screen as a quick-witted, coffee-loving, amnesiac investigator. Voiced by Ryan Reynolds, Detective Pikachu sees everyone’s […]
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Veteran Pokémon fans might be taken aback by one of Detective Pikachu’s earliest scenes, in which protagonist Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) tries to capture a Cubone. Goodman doesn’t try damaging or battling the Pokémon, as one would in a game. He just throws a Pokeball at it. As the characters explain it, in this region, capturing Pokémon is all about […]
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Last week’s volcanic eruption left Tilted Towers in ruins, but now Fortnite’s season 9 patch has arrived to usher in the future. Along with some high-tech rebuilds of fan-favorite locations, there is also a host of gameplay changes coming in this patch, including one of the biggest shotgun changes ever. Related Fortnite’s season 9 battle pass is all about the […]
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Microsoft has something new planned for Minecraft, and it looks like an augmented reality app for mobile phones. In a teaser video posted to the Microsoft Twitter and YouTube accounts, a woman accidentally swaps phones with a man sitting on a bench. She picks up the phone to discover a new Minecraft game, in which one of the game’s polygonal […]
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The live-action Pokémon movie, Detective Pikachu, hits movie theaters this week, so naturally an event in Pokémon Go celebrating all things Detective Pikachu is in order. Niantic and The Pokémon Company are holding a special event that will commemorate (and help promote, obviously) Detective Pikachu with a number of new cosmetics and in-game bonuses. From Tuesday, May 7, at 1 […]
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Origin Forme Giratina may no longer be available in Pokemon Go, but some new Legendaries have taken its place in the hit mobile game. The Lake trio from Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum–Azelf, Mesprit, and Uxie–have begun appearing around the world–and this time, you won’t need to battle them in Raids. Unlike most of the other Legendaries to appear in […]
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If you missed the chance to catch a Shiny Meltan in Pokemon Go back in February, you’re in luck. Niantic is bringing the Meltan event back for a limited time beginning Wednesday, April 24, giving players around the world another opportunity to capture the Shiny form of the Mythical Hex Nut Pokemon. Unlike other Pokemon, Meltan will only appear in […]
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