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Pokémon Unite is shutting down March 23, 2027. Sales of Aeos gems and Unite Club are already suspended. A Nov 12 final event unlocks every license and Holoware—download the library before it's gone.

Riftbound's T1 2025 Worlds Champion Player Bundle is back at $70 — but you can't just buy it. Enter the draw Nov 13-16; winners get 24 hours to pay. Signature Edition stays gone.

With the Zelda movie slated for April 30, 2027, an official Instagram account appeared this month and vanished within a week. Fans now fear a delay—or cancellation.

Stuck on Connections for Oct 27? Hints and full answers are up — one solver cleared the board in blue-yellow-purple-green order with no misses. Your streak doesn't have to die today.

Austin Wintory wrote 20 minutes of music for Mass Effect 5 before EA canceled it and shut BioWare. He just posted all 8 tracks—his 'ultimate white whale.'

Modern Warfare 4 changed the tactical nuke: instead of dying in the blast, you get airlifted out and flip the middle finger. Fans hate it — the sacrifice was the point.

FBI and Santa Ana police are now investigating the Oct. 13 theft of 6,451 graded items—nearly 3,000 Pokémon cards—worth $963K from a FedEx truck near PSA’s grading center. PSA deactivated their certs to block resale.

Today’s Wordle #1,954 is an easy one: one traditional vowel, a repeated letter, and the answer is clothing. Streak-savers can stop here—hints, not spoilers.

AI just turned reverse-engineering games from years-long work into a hobby—Anthropic and OpenAI are cracking down. Too late: the same tricks exposed PHP flaws that left 70% of the internet vulnerable.

Today's Connections (Oct 26): responses to 'How are you?', kinds of mats, AKC dog breed groups, and horror movies with their last letter changed.

GTA 6's rumored Lucia, Manni Perez, went Live with 2,000 fans and answered zero GTA questions—Rockstar's NDA reportedly blocks actors from confirming involvement until Nov 19. She talked meal prep and her dog instead.

PlayStation's GTA 6 marketing deal left Xbox posting the launch trailer a week late—2.5M views vs 65M. Microsoft says preorders are still 'breaking records' for Xbox, matching its ~23% console share.

Cancelled Mass Effect: Universe would've let players plug trilogy saves together into 'parallel universes'—all Shepard choices counted. A Dragon Age Keep on steroids, not Veilguard's minimal world state.

Stuck on today's Connections? Oct 25's four categories: taking what isn't yours, Italian cooking tools, characters who share a first name, and things that make a sharp sound when you snap them.

Kojima wanted Snatcher's floppy disks coated in blood-scented paint that melted as your PC warmed—so your room smelled like a murder scene. Konami killed it. Nearly 40 years later, remote scent tech can transmit smells—just five for now.

No More Room in Hell 2's Camp Blood update finally tackles its 'biggest missing aspect'—late-game progression. New Responder Retirement lets level-100 survivors cash out for rewards; a weekly Hell Mode is next.

Shogun 2's remaster was delisted after Overwhelmingly Negative reviews. Creative Assembly now says it wasn't CA-developed and skipped its internal QA—blaming an external studio while admitting its name is still on it.

Phantom Blade Zero lands 88 on Metacritic and 91 on OpenCritic—beating Nioh 3 and Onimusha—turning S-Game's debut console game into a GOTY contender. Eurogamer's 6/10 is the lone dissent.

Tim Sweeney spent two days calling Steam's AI-disclosure rule an "anti-technology smear" akin to forcing voting history. But Valve only asks devs to flag AI-generated art, voice, music—not AI used to code. He's fighting a rule that doesn't say what he claims.

A month before GTA VI, I finally played GTA III at 25. Its crude freedom still hits harder than later GTAs — and the community's wild workarounds are the real magic.

Peak, the viral co-op mountain-climbing game, just escaped PC: now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch 2 with crossplay and all post-launch content.

Control Resonant's wildest twist: late-game, it abruptly becomes a 16-bit EarthBound-style JRPG to explain Jesse and Dylan's childhood trauma. Remedy faked the 2D look inside its 3D engine and hand-coded it in Lua — a script likely as long as every other quest combined.

EA just shut down BioWare and canceled its next Mass Effect game. Amazon's Prime Video series is reportedly still moving forward with its showrunners intact—no release date yet.

Phantom Blade Zero is so good Game Informer won’t score it yet: 40+ hours in, the reviewer calls it one of the best action games ever played—with nearly 100 bosses and dozens of builds. A first AAA from S-Game.

NYT Connections, Oct 21: Yellow = classic children's games, Green = important-person nicknames, Blue = famous paintings, Purple = double misnomers — English horn, Grape-Nuts, mantis shrimp, sweetbread.