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Ian Walker

December, 2018
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About Ian Walker

Ian is a video game journalist and blogger with over 15 years of experience. He's worked previously as a staff writer at Kotaku and editor-in-chief of the (sadly, now-defunct) fighting game hub Shoryuken, with additional bylines at Aftermath, Vice, Paste, and Game Developer. Ian loves exploring niche communities and researching the development of classic video games.

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A robotic watchman holds a small boy in the air in Lies of P
Want more Belle Époque after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Check out Lies of P

It’s true: Pinocchio’s got style

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Far Cry 4 cover art featuring a menacing man in a pink suit surrounded by all manner of weaponry
Far Cry 4 gets 60 fps update on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X a decade after launch

Better late than never

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Side-by-side screenshots of Donkey Kong grimacing in Donkey Kong Bananza and edited to look more like his previous Rare design
Here’s what Donkey Kong Bananza might have looked like with DK’s old design

Better? Worse?

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Hitman screenshot of a bald man in a chef’s uniform choking another man with a garrote on a cliff overlooking a seaside village
Hitman prototype reveals unused NPC smuggling mechanic, character select screen in 2016 game

And you can even play it yourself — with a little elbow grease

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Key art for Assassin’s Creed: Animus featuring multiple characters from the video game franchise
New Assassin’s Creed board game will explore multiple timelines

From the team that brought you Halo: Flashpoint

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A hand reaches from the top of the frame to remove a Nintendo Switch 2 from its dock
So are GameStop’s Switch 2 pre-orders ‘not available’ or ‘currently unavailable’

Turns out people kinda like Nintendo consoles

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The quote “…the Mario Kart World game…” over a blurry image of Mario Kart World’s cover art
Nintendo’s awkward marketing language, explained

I hope more people care about this than just me

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A group of goblins prepare to fight a shadowy figure in Tenderfoot Tactics
Indie dev removes goblin tactics game from Xbox in solidarity with pro-Palestine boycott

Tenderfoot Tactics is still available on Steam and Switch

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A cartoon-y, red car zooms through a busy street on the cover of OutRun for the Sega Genesis
Michael Bay and Sydney Sweeney are making the least likely Sega movie

OutRun is a weird choice, but I guess I’m not a movie executive

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The mad god Sheogorath balances a staff on one hand in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
Oblivion Remastered preserves the original’s goofy voice lines

Upgrades don’t mean losing what made the original special

Paul Rudd plays Switch 2 in a long, dark duster, pink shirt, and necklace as a fog machine douses him in mist
Paul Rudd cosplays 1991 Paul Rudd in throwback Switch 2 commercial

Now you’re playing with power, the sequel

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The Roman numeral IV over a blackish red background teasing The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster
Something is happening with the Oblivion remaster tomorrow

Get ready to head back to Cyrodiil

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A knight on a horse approaches a tower in Skyblivion
Skyblivion fan project moving forward despite remaster rumors: ‘Players will be the true winners,’ devs say

The mod has been in development since 2012

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Diablo’s Barbarian with Guts’ iconic armor and sword from Berserk
Diablo is going Berserk

A cool video and nothing else, but let’s speculate anyway

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Arcane protagonist Jinx shoots her way through a Fortnite battle
Fortnite’s Arcane skins won’t be coming back for ‘the foreseeable future,’ Riot exec says

Jinx and Vi won’t be gunning down Peter Griffin and Goku any time soon if you don’t already own them

Pokey, a yellow cactus creature, drives a go-kart in Mario Kart World
We still don’t know how you unlock all those goofy Mario Kart World characters

Nintendo loves its old-school unlock methods

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Women wearing Pikachu paper visors play Nintendo Co.’s Pokemon Go augmented-reality game, developed by Niantic Inc., on their smartphones during a Pikachu Outbreak event, organised by Pokemon Co., in Yokohama, Japan, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. About 60 million people still play the Pokemon Go mobile game each month, according to data from mobile app research firm Apptopia, and one in five of those players opens the game on a daily basis. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Almost 20% of Japanese people in their 20s have prioritized in-game purchases over paying rent

And that only accounts for self-reports

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A pair of RuneScape: Dragonwilds players chop a felled tree into logs
RuneScape: Dragonwilds just got shadow-dropped on Steam

Hope you like chopping down trees

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A redheaded warrior fights a stone monster in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Xbox Game Pass wraps April with Grand Theft Auto 5, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

A fan favorite and a new, turn-based RPG? Sounds good to me

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A screenshot of Mario navigating a Japanese world in an unreleased Virtual Boy game
Internet detectives unearth rare screenshots of canceled Virtual Boy Mario Land

Just don’t look at them too long, the red can be aggravating

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