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This week, a low-quality video may have given us our first look at the Joy-Con that will be used by the successor to the Nintendo Switch. Also, Sony celebrated the 30th anniversary of PlayStation by putting the original console’s boot-up sound on PS5, along with customization options that let people apply the familiar sounds of other PlayStation consoles to the UI of the current one. Read on for these and more of the week’s top stories.
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Viral influencer and podcast host Haliey “Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch’s crypto coin, which launched yesterday, has already crashed, leading some to speculate that the memecoin was a pump and dump scheme. Welch has denied this and claimed everything is above board. - Zack Zwiezen Read More
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This morning, PS5 owners booted up their consoles and (assuming they had auto-updates turned on) were greeted with a surprise: The original and iconic PlayStation 1 console boot-up logos and music. It’s all part of Sony’s ongoing 30 years of PlayStation celebration. And there’s more beyond the PS1 intro, though sadly, everything is only temporary. - Zack Zwiezen Read More
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Many expected a Switch 2 reveal this fall. Instead, it looks like Nintendo fans will close out 2024 without even an official tease. But that hasn’t stopped rampant speculation and alleged leaks from filling the information void. A new video shows what could be a first look at the Switch 2's new and improved Joy-Con—if it’s not an elaborate fake, that is. - Ethan Gach Read More
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The original PlayStation was never supposed to happen. Sony had intended to team up with Nintendo on a disc-based, next-gen successor to the SNES. Then the Mario maker decided to stick with cartridges at the last minute, completely changing the console gaming timeline in the process. A new machine was born, one that gave us some of our favorite games ever made. That was thirty years ago, and now it’s clear that it changed video game history forever. - Ethan Gach Read More
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Ubisoft has announced that XDefiant, its multiplatform free-to-play Call of Duty-like FPS, is shutting down in June despite the game’s executive producer saying that it wasn’t dying and was “doing well” in September. - Zack Zwiezen Read More
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Blizzard is delisting Warcraft I and II from GOG, the only PC gaming storefront the real-time strategy classics were available on outside of the company’s own Battle.net launcher. The move comes after the recent launch of its own expensive and lackluster remasters of the two games, but GOG is using that now-standard business move to double-down on its game preservation efforts. - Ethan Gach Read More
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February 2025 is filled with some big game releases, including a new Monster Hunter and Assassin’s Creed. In fact, so many large games are coming out that month that one of them has decided to change its release date to avoid the pile-up of video games. - Zack Zwiezen Read More
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Bloodborne fans have spent years waiting for a sign of anything—a sequel, remaster, port—being done to their favorite PlayStation 4 exclusive. But as time has passed without even a whiff of a PS5 update, some have lost hope. Now, Sony has hit back with the perfect troll that can be read as a either a sign of fresh hope or the final nail in the coffin for the FromSoftware franchise’s future. - Ethan Gach Read More
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Project Mugen was revealed back in 2023 as an open-world fantasy RPG about people with superpowers investigating strange anomalies that threaten their urban paradise. Think Genshin Impact in Manhattan with Spider-Man-like traversal. On Thursday, it got another incredible-looking trailer and a new name. - Ethan Gach Read More
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