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With nearly three decades worth of games, movies, and more to pull from starring one of gaming’s most recognizable heroines, you’d think a TV show based on the Tomb Raider franchise would be a sure hit. Yet Netflix, the streaming giant responsible for powerhouse game adaptations like its Castlevania series and Arcane, can’t seem to strike gold with Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. The new animated series is plagued by a shallow plot, uninteresting characters, and a disappointing lack of adventure. While the show’s portrayal of iconic hero Lara herself is its saving grace, there’s nothing else of…

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Image: The Pokémon CompanyA lot of new information about the Pokémon series is surfacing this week after developer Game Freak suffered a data leak that exposed information and assets dating back decades. This unfortunately included some personal information about members of its staff, but the majority of the leak consists of information about old and upcoming projects from the Pokémon franchise. Among the files was a piece of concept art for the three Ruby and Sapphire starter Pokémon. Two of them look pretty familiar, but one was scrapped entirely before the Game Boy Advance games launched in 2002.What’s Coming Out…

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Ripple led a $25 million funding round for Bitnomial, a digital assets derivatives exchange and brokerage platform based and regulated in the United States. Bitnomial announced on Oct. 15 that Ripple, the company behind XRP (XRP), led the funding round. This comes as the platform prepares for a public launch of Botanical, the startup’s perpetual futures trading platform. According to details in a press release, Botanical is designed to offer users access to perpetual futures, traditional futures, and options trading. The platform remains in closed beta, but its public rollout will provide users with products that comply with U.S. Commodity…

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My patience with Overwatch 2 is wearing thin, and it’s only getting thinner as the hero shooter enters its 13th season today, October 15. The Halloween-centric season is full of recolors of old skins and a lot of the cosmetic favoritism that has plagued the game in the past year. But it also has a new patch, one that reworks the stealthy, hack-based hero Sombra just a year after Blizzard’s dev team last overhauled the DPS character. And y’all, I think my patience is reaching its limit for how this game keeps shaving down what makes its heroes special and…

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Image: WB / DC / Cineverse / KotakuLast weekend, Joker: Folie à Deux arrived in theaters with poor reviews, negative fan reactions, and a much lower opening box office weekend than the first Joker movie. And now the $200 million sequel has dropped about 80 percent in its second weekend while Terrifier 3, an indie horror flick, became the biggest movie in the U.S. 6 Things To Know Before Starting Persona 5 Tactica2019’s Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, became one of the most successful movies ever made, grossing over $1 billion at the box office, and was nominated for 11…

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Coinbase hired History Associates Inc. to pursue SEC communications under the Freedom of Information Act – a process that initially concluded with the agency denying the request by citing that the documents were connected to an ongoing investigation. Coinbase’s hired gun eventually sued over the denial, and History Associates is preparing to ask the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to force the hand of the agency, which has since suggested the reason for its initial denial may no longer be valid.

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Steam Next Fest, which kicked off in 2021 as the successor to the Steam Game Festival, remains one of the best ways to see what good games are on the horizon. The event, which runs several times a year, gives players a chance to try out demos from a slew of in-development titles. We’ve been through the latest batch to…Read more…

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