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The best Nintendo Switch accessories

The Nintendo Switch continues to dominate portable gaming to this day, even with the imminent arrival of the Switch 2. It stands out with some great exclusive games for all ages, and each model comes with everything most people need to have a good time. However, the experience of using a Switch can improve in big ways […]

Revealed: the top new PC and console games of 2024

We’re here: last stop for 2024, everybody off, the GDCo newsletter is heading to the depot. Before we quit for the annum, massive love to our increasing band of colleagues at GDCo: Alejandro, Avi, Matt, Tomek and Strale – building our game data and info platform right, behind the scenes. (Some exciting news about that […]

Sonic 3 is a speedrun through the franchise scrapyard, yet it works

Though the three Sonic the Hedgehog movies have charms of their own, they’ve also clearly benefited from a confluence of lucky breaks in order to reach their rarefied beloved-franchise status. The generally poor track record of previous video game adaptations; the release of the first movie before COVID closed theaters and the second one not […]

This fan favorite class is getting D&D 2024’s first playtest

“It’s been a minute since we’ve done this,” says Todd Kenreck in Dungeons & Dragon’s latest YouTube video, “but we have a new Unearthed Arcana.” Sitting across from him is a smiling Jeremy Crawford, D&D’s lead rules designer, who says he is “so glad that the first Unearthed Arcana after the new Player’s Handbook and […]

How to get Mew in Pokémon TCG Pocket

There are a number of ways to get Mew in Pokémon TCG Pocket — you can get one type of Mew card from the Genetic Apex expansion, and five types in December 2024’s Mythical Island expansion. For the Genetic Apex version of Mew, you can’t simply pull the card from the expansion’s booster packs. Instead, […]