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From digitized actors to a rejected Van Damme license, a rope dart, and Mortal Monday, discover how Mortal Kombat became an arcade and console phenomenon.

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November 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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🕹️ Casper SNES game features Castlevania composer's music

👾 Ecstatica Pioneered 3D Graphics in 1994 Survival Horror

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November 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Fan Translator Releases English Version of Welcome House 2

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Interview: Fan Translator Chapu Talks Upcoming Projects, Gaming in Argentina, & Resurfacing PS1 Oddities
"Games that aren't great also deserve...a chance to reach a wider audience"
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November 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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💙 THE MEGA DRIVE DOSSIER — THE CONSOLE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING 💙

What was YOUR first Genesis / Mega Drive game? 👇

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October 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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RPG grinding wasn't always lazy design. Every console generation had a hardware limit behind it: NES, SNES, PS1, GameCube, Wii, and PC.

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October 30, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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In 2005, World of Warcraft accidentally unleashed a plague on its own players.

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November 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Taito Milestones 5 brings arcade classics to Nintendo Switch

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Taito Milestones 5 Brings Together Space Invaders, Hat Trick Hero and More Arcade Hits on a Single Switch Cart
Marine Date & Extermination also making their Switch debut
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October 30, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Wild to think FromSoftware has been traumatizing us for 40 whole years. Went from obscure clunky mecha to making us throw controllers at Elden Ring. Happy birthday, you beautiful sadists. #FromSoftware #GamingHistory

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November 1, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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👾 Looking back at Tomb Raider on the Game Boy Color

📺 BrickBoy Team Creates Playable Lego PlayStation Console

💾 Street Fighter II gets AI-enhanced Amiga update

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October 31, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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On this day in 2016, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was released worldwide. Its real historical value is how clearly it captured a shooter genre wrestling with reinvention. #GamingHistory #InfiniteWarfare #CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare #OnThisDayGaming #2016Games #ShooterHistory #ReleaseDayHistory #Pla…
November 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. #gaminghistory #pacman
Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, aka the "Ghost Gang" in their original form in Pacman©
November 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Switch had one last Nintendo record to beat: DS, at 154.0 million.

Read the story, explore the numbers or make your own chart: www.chartglow.app/blog/switch-...

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November 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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🎂 PLAYSTATION STORE TURNS 20!

From the early PS3 days to today's digital storefront, gaming has changed massively.

Do you prefer buying digitally for convenience, or are physical games still your first choice?

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November 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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🎮 On this day in 2009, Alien Breed Evolution was released! (65.0★)

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Alien Breed Evolution (2009) - GameTips.gg
A remake of the original classic Amiga title Alien Breed, Evolution features update graphics, gameplay and features.
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November 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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When Dice Were Made of Flint #18. Pale, male, and frail. Gamers didn't get girls - in either sense of the word. #whenDiceWereMadeOfFlint #graemeDavis #roleplayingGames #fantasyArt #sexism #gamingHistory #popularCulture https://l.d20.ninja/NQkBlrpI
When Dice Were Made of Flint #18
Remembering the low-budget fantasy movies of the 1980s in a previous column made me think about how roleplaying games, and fantasy in general, were almost exclusively male pursuits at that time. Which, in turn, made me think about how women were portrayed in fantasy media. What follows is not the
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November 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Fan Translation of PS1 Horror RPG Ningyo No Rakuin to launch this Halloween

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A Fan Translation for the PS1 Horror Game 'Ningyo No Rakuin' Will Emerge from the Deep This Halloween
Time to shell-ebrate?
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October 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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#RetroGames #ClassicGaming #16BitGaming #FIFAGaming #FootballGames #EASPORTS #VideoGamePreservation #GamingNews #GamingCollectors #CollectorsEdition #GamingHistory Would you welcome and support a Classic Collectors Edition for FIFA of the first games to appear? www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-fi...
Why FIFA Needs A Classic Collectors Edition
I wrote a feature many years back as to why i was a fan of the FIFA game series in fact this one and FIFA has not really had any collectors editions of their previous game series despite having many t...
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November 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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📼 Nintendo's NES Test Market Warehouse Rediscovered in Hackensack

🕹️ Taito Milestones 5 brings 10 classic games to Switch in Japan

📺 Prehistoric Isle returns to modern consoles

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October 29, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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🎮 On this day in 1996, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain was released! (85.0★)

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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996) - GameTips.gg
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a top-down action-adventure video game with role-playing game elements. It is the first game in the Legacy of Kain series, and the only one developed by Silicon Knights a...
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November 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Man's Forgotten Pokémon TCG Collection Sells for $2 Million

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"We Couldn't Believe It" - Man's Forgotten Pokémon Collection Sells For $2 Million
Money where your Meowth is
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October 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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🎮 On this day in 2016, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered was released! (86.9★)

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (2016) - GameTips.gg
One of the most critically-acclaimed games in history. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is back, remastered in true high-definition, featuring enhanced textures, rendering, high-dynamic range lighting, ...
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November 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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🎮 #gameOfTheDay: "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) for the Atari 2600. Often considered one of the worst video games ever made, it led to the famous 1983 video game crash and the mass burial of unsold cartridges in a New Mexico landfill. #GamingHistory #RetroGaming
October 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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🎮 On this day in 1999, Asheron's Call was released! (85.0★)

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Asheron's Call (1999) - GameTips.gg
Asheron's Call (AC) is a fantasy MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) for Microsoft Windows-based PCs developed and published by Turbine Entertainment. Though it was developed by th...
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November 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Before global releases, region locking kept some games confined to one country for years. In the '90s and earlier, players had to live with these limits.

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October 27, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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📼 Fan translation of PS1 horror RPG Ningyo No Rakuin to launch in English

🕹️ Street Fighter II gets AI-powered upgrade for Amiga

📺 Sonic Fan Builds Playable Pumpkin Hill Costume

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October 28, 2026 at 12:35 PM