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Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images / Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images If you bought a Nintendo Switch as part of the recent Black Friday sales, then you’re in luck because there’s a huge sale on Nintendo Switch games going on at Best Buy right now. It’s 180 games, so pretty much anything you could want in terms of genre is in there, including Super Smash Bros and Pokémon Legends: Arceus; it’s chock-full of games that you can grab for cheap right now. We’ve done our best to…

Nintendo This month has been an exciting one for fans of old-school Square Enix role-playing games, as two of its classic RPGs got impressive remakes. On November 2, Gemdrops and Square Enix’s Star Ocean: The Second Story R gave the PS1 cult classic the HD-2D treatment, while ArtePiazza and Nintendo’s remake of Square’s SNES classic Super Mario RPG dropped on November 17. As both games have rarely been rereleased, it’s great to see each getting the drastic modern visual overhauls they deserved. These are far from the…

Nintendo The current batch of Black Friday deals hold good news for Nintendo lovers, as one of the Nintendo Switch Black Friday deals we’ve found  sees one of the best Switch games bundled with a Nintendo Switch OLED at Best Buy. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Bundle will land you a Nintendo Switch OLED, the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game, and three free months of Nintendo Switch Online for $350. This is the regular price of a standalone Nintendo Switch OLED, which means you’re getting Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — a…

I never truly realized how genius Nintendo’s Mario Kart formula is until I got borderline obsessed with mastering Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Like Mario Kart Wii, this is a game where you can either pick up casually or go hardcore , learning everything to try to increase your online VR points and reach higher ranks. If that was enough to make Mario Kart Wii the best entry in the series for its time, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has taken the series to new heights throughout its nearly decade-long life span. With its final Booster…

Sony revealed which games will come to its PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra Game Catalog this November. Outside of a day-one release hitting service today, the rest of these games will come ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday on November 21. Of the 14 games coming to the service, the highlight is Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, an underrated cult-classic RPG worth checking out before its impending sequel’s release. Capcom Dragon’s Dogma was first released for PS3 and Xbox 350 in 2012, while the enhanced Dark Arisen…

Image: Tada Images (Shutterstock)Another round of layoffs is underway at Amazon, and for the second time, it’s happening at the company’s video games division. Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayAmazon employees received an email about the layoffs Monday morning, as first reported by Reuters. Approximately 180 jobs will be eliminated in the retailer giant’s games division, which was responsible for publishing several games including MMOs such as New World, Lost Ark and a Lord of the Rings project.“After our initial…

Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial Thursday.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Purnima Kochikar, Google’s vice president of play, took the stand Thursday to defend why Project Hug wasn’t a bribe in the trial of Epic Games v. Google where the search giant is being sued for anti-competitive practices on its app store. Kochikar says…

Sony announced the three-game lineup that PlayStation Plus Essential subscribers can redeem for free throughout the month of August. It’s an odd batch of titles that includes a sports game, one of 2021’s best indies, and a user-generated, content-focused PS4 exclusive that never got the love it deserved. Specifically, those three games are PGA Tour 2K23, Death’s Door, and Dreams. PGA Tour 2K23 is the golf sister series of the NBA 2K franchise that also had a game on PS Plus earlier this year. It gives exactly the…

The Merrick Garland-led Department of Justice published 13 new guidelines it and the FTC will use to evaluate acquisitions and mergers. Image: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)In the wake of legal turmoil that has stalled—but not prevented—a merger between Microsoft and Activision, the Biden administration has opted to revisit the guidelines that the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission will use to assess mergers and acquisitions under the lens of federal antitrust laws.Time to Tackle the Taylor Swift…

Image: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock)Shortly after a judge denied the Federal Trade Commission’s injunction to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, the FTC has now turned to an appeals court to stop the $69 billion deal once again.Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextThe FTC filed an appeal on Wednesday and an emergency motion on Thursday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, according to Reuters. The commission is seeking a prompt response from the court as,…