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Unlike in Nintendo’s Pokémon games where legendary Pokémon are so exceedingly rare that most people question whether or not they actually exist, the unique creatures make rather frequent appearances in the franchise’s anime television shows and films, where they’re featured as being integral parts of special stories.

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It's that time of the month again when Netflix deletes a bunch of third-party content on its service. Normally, we'd advise you to watch these movies and TV shows while you still have the chance - this week, that's mathematically impossible.

Over the next three days, Netflix will remove over 200 titles totalling thousands of hours of entertainment. Here's the full list.

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I expected Avalanche Studios’ new sci-fi sandbox shooter to win me over immediately. Set in Sweden in the ’80s after mysterious circumstances cause the nation’s robotic defence force to go haywire, Generation Zero’s setup seemed algorithmically designed to appeal directly to me.

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there.

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Huawei has made a name for itself by releasing the best phone cameras of the year. Each improvement seems almost effortless. Even revolutionary features are added in a way that feels like the embodiment of a shrug and a casual "but of course".

And it looks like 2019 is no different.

The ability to see in the dark? But of course. 50x zoom. But. Of. Course.

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The Sega Genesis has had by far the longest shelf life of any of the 16-bit systems. You could buy Sega’s final “Genesis 3" model in stores until the early 2000s, and just a few years later, the AtGames released licensed plug-and-play machines, some with Genesis cartridge slots. For the last 30 years, you’d likely be able to find a Genesis-compatible console on a store shelf. So do you need one that costs $190? Maybe you do.

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When Huawei released the original MateBook X Pro last year, I’m not entirely sure the company knew what it had created. Huawei has only been in the laptop business for about three years, a relatively short time compared to industry veterans like Apple, Dell, Lenovo and others.

So when it made a premium 14-inch laptop with a gorgeous (though somewhat derivative) all aluminium body, top-notch specs, a stunning screen, and tricky pop-up webcam, and then priced it at just $1699 as if all those other features weren’t enough, it transformed the MateBook X Pro into my favourite ultraportable laptop of 2018.

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It's the sort of thing you never want to happen. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab found that hackers had infiltrated ASUS, one of the biggest computer manufacturers in the world, and masked a backdoor "ShadowHammer" trojan as a legitimate update that was then pushed out to users through the ASUS Live Update tool.

ASUS has officially responded to the claims, releasing a diagnostic for users to check their machines and new security patches to fix affected laptops.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Anthem gets a new update. The changes in the new update all look promising. Then, upon closer inspection, not all of the improvements are working as intended, and a few things that had previously been fixed are now busted again.

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On March 22, 2018, I was rushed to the hospital for life-saving surgery. Due to complications with the procedure, I didn’t regain full, coherent consciousness until the second week in April. For three weeks I was stuck inside my own mind, subject to a seemingly unending series of dreams.

Dreams covering on a variety of themes, some light and hopeful, others dark and dismal. I dreamed the end of my life over and over. I was a hero and a villain. Sometimes, but not often, I was Michael Fahey.

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In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the thread between life and death is tenuous. As the One-Armed Wolf, a loyal shinobi seeking to save a young noble with a cursed bloodline, you traverse a feudal Japan so saturated with the remnants of war that the idea of mortality becomes fickle: dead bodies blending in with the local flora and fauna, so many wounded soldiers sharing their last words that you could create a compendium of the lost.

This is all underscored by a cruel and ultimately gruelling irony - you cannot die.

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Exploring the entirety of space is impossible in the real world, but it’s now been done in EVE Online. A player by the in-game name Katia Sae is the first player to have officially visited every one of the game’s 7,805 star systems. Even more impressive, they did it without losing a single ship to EVE’s notorious pirates.

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A small segment of users have been lobbying console makers to add proper mouse and keyboard support for years. Late last year, Microsoft came to the party with official KB+M support in a range of games, including Fortnite, and now we're seeing other developers start to patch that support in as well.

That's just one of the things in the Ranger update for Metro Exodus, however. The game's gotten a New Game+ mode as of this morning, developer commentary and a wealth of fixes and content additions across all platforms.