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Apparently Nintendo felt the old-school packaging for the NES Classic Edition (opens in new tab) wasn’t ’80s enough on its own, so it’s put together a new trailer bursting with star fields, glowing neon, and – most importantly – the slogan that started it all. Now you’re playing with power. …

It’s been three years since we lost all the hours to bug catching and fishing in Animal Crossing New Leaf (opens in new tab) but that doesn’t mean it has to be taken out to the ‘farm’ where it can chase butterflies in the fields all day.  Nintendo has revealed …

Pokemon Go (opens in new tab)’s battle system feels pretty hectic at first. Most people get the idea to tap as fast as you can pretty quickly, and if they’re truly Poke Masters they’ll start working in special attacks and dodges. But just like in the main Pokemon games, there’s …

Although it failed to debut at number 1 in America, Ghostbusters (opens in new tab) notched up a respectable $46 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Perhaps more importantly, the reception from both critics and audiences has been generally positive, and it seems that that combination has …

We got a look at some concept art for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (opens in new tab) and Doctor Strange (opens in new tab) ahead of this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con (opens in new tab) a few days ago, and today it’s the turn of Luke Cage (opens …

Ready your wallets, Gears fans. The special edition Xbox One S with the blood-red paint scheme and bundled copy of Gears of War 4 (opens in new tab) Ultimate Edition that leaked yesterday (opens in new tab) has been confirmed (opens in new tab) by Microsoft. The company is calling …

The first extended gameplay video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is here, and it looks like a mighty slick version of the old “Crew Expendable” mission. Get it, slick? Because of all the rain and sea spray? I’ll be quiet while you watch the video, sorry. For comparison …

Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab) will be getting a beta “shortly after Gamescom” according to German community manager Sebastian Moritz.  The info game out in a Twitch stream with CmdKrieger  (translated here (opens in new tab), via VG247 (opens in new tab)). Gamescom is running from 18 to 21 …

The Metal Gear series was very nearly done and dusted as a 2D game by 1990, according to Hideo Kojima speaking at this year’s Develop conference. That was until PS1 came along with its fancy polygons.  “I made Metal Gear 1 and 2, and at that point the series, for …

Every trailer for Suicide Squad (opens in new tab) has teased the appearance of Ben Affleck’s Batman, and while the focus of the film will undoubtedly be on the supervillains the Dark Knight’s inclusion is one of the more intriguing aspects of the film. David Ayer has revealed that he …