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Banjo Kazooie Is Coming To Nintendo Switch Online Tomorrow
Another classic Nintendo 64 game is being added to the Nintendo Switch Online library (hopefully in functioning form). According to the Nintendo of America Twitter account, the classic bear and bird duo Banjo Kazooie will be making its way onto the platform on January 20th (which is the 21st for us Australians, who live in the future).…
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How Sea Of Thieves Saved Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean
When the fifth film in the Pirates franchise, Dead Men Tell No Tales, utterly scuppered the future of the series, fans were left hanging.
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Perfect Dark: 20 Years Later
Twenty years on from release I must acknowledge that, for a classic multiplayer game, Perfect Dark now suffers from a fairly major fault. It’s nigh-on unplayable. Those sleek offices and twisting tunnels have morphed into poorly textured geometric mazes. The explosions and effects, brilliant in memory, are muted. Most of all, the always-suspect framerate is…
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All The Studios Under The Xbox Banner
Only a couple of years ago, the biggest claim against Microsoft was that they didn’t have enough exclusive content, and not enough studios to make it. It’s taking a while for some of those exclusives to come together, but today the lineup of Xbox development talent looks very different.