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Nintendo shows how amiibo cards work with the Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo New 3DS by introducing people to Roald the penguin.

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Nobody told me Super Mario Maker was gonna get this real, god damn.

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This is Yui Horie. She’s a famous voice actress and singer. She’s now 39 years old, but for nearly two decades, time has stood still.

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Kabukicho. Tokyo, Japan. By DC M.

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Koei Tecmo shares the latest on Arslan: The Warriors of Legend, with its opening video featuring Arslan, Daryun, Narsus, Farangis, and other allies that will be in the upcoming game.

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Boats in Minecraft, due to their durability (or lack thereof), have been nigh impossible (or at least highly aggravating) to use on anything but the open sea for years now. One player took to Reddit to vent a bit on the matter. And thank goodness he did.

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Super Mario Maker music levels are becoming commonplace, but this one enhances the existing melody, rather than creating its own.

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The latest look at Persona 5 shows us more of the recently introduced fifth party member, along with the rest of the gang shown at various areas and dungeons.

Read Persona 5’s Latest Screens Show Off Its Characters, Personas, And New Areas on Siliconera!

SAG-AFTRA, the union which looks after voice actors (among loads of other jobs), is mulling over whether to strike in order to obtain better conditions for its members.

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Meanwhile, in Tokyo. Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan, on October 18, 2014. By texasstorm.

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But the end result is totally worth it.

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If you agree to share your data with Nintendo over SpotPass, they'll give you a compact car in the latest Animal Crossing game.

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Don’t say I didn’t warn you

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did anyone ever actually read animorphs or did we all just glance at the covers and assume it needed no explanation on the way to the goosebumps section in our elementary school library

animorphs is a scifi series about the grey morality of war and child soldiers experiencing trauma, depression, PTSD, being frequently and brutally dismembered, disemboweled, literally tortured to the brink of death, forced to murder their own family members with their bare hands, and on page 22 of the very first book they watch the alien prince who gave them their ~wacky animal morphing powers~ scream while be eaten alive in vivid and gory detail

One dude permanently turned into a bird for a while, forgot how to make facial expressions when he was a human and ate roadkill. And that was one of the tamer things.

You know the starfish cover everyone likes to mock especially? The girl beat someone to death with her own severed arm in that one :) 

What the fuck did I miss out on

At one point, they tried to let another guy into their little army, and he ended up being a literal sociopath, decided to morph (shape-shift) into the bodies of the rest of them in order to trick them/blackmail them, and ended up stuck in the body of a rat on an island that humans would later perceive to be haunted because of his telepathic screams of anguish. 

And in another one, one of them has an… “allergic reaction?” to one of the animal forms she possesses.  She rapidly and unexpectedly shape-shifts into a bunch of different animals out of her control.  She shifted into an elephant on the second floor of her home, collapsing her house, and almost killing her two little sisters. 

The bird boy from before?  There is a whole side story in one of the books where he stalks this bunny family and refuses to eat any of the babies because “he’s human damnit” and he’s literally starving and then at the end he eats the mother bunny, turns into her, and adopts the babies as his own.

The two most powerful creatures in this series, the Ellimist and the Crayak, literally have “creation” and “destiny intervention” as a superpowers.  (God-like creatures.)  They are mortal enemies.  They have a private war going on, and this alien invasion on Earth with the animal morphers?  Just chess pieces to them.  They have admitted that they are both “simple members of their races” meaning that there were more powerful creatures than them out in the universe, but we never saw them.

There was a side book that didn’t follow one of the main six, that went back in time to an alien planet, and told the love story of an inter-species relationship where neither one of them were human.

The blue horse race aliens?  Eat with their feet and have a serious superiority complex when it comes to other races.  (They have the power to fight a war, but are dragging their feet to come help little, useless, dirty, under-developed, third-world Earth.)

Animorphs was dark af, didn’t hold back from serious issues because it was kid’s book, and had an ending that the writer defended with 

“Wars don’t end happily.  Not ever.”  …  “So that’s what I wrote.”

fuck, man, animorphs was the single greatest formative influence on me as a kid. like, before lord of the rings or harry potter or whatever the fuck else, there was animorphs. that shit shaped my life and my expectations for good storytelling and good characters. nothing else i’ve ever read has quite come close to what animorphs was to me when i was a kid (shit, and still is to me now as an adult)

When a fan group making a fighting game based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic received a cease and desist letter from Hasbro back in 2013, show creator Lauren Faust stepped in to help them develop an original game—Them’s Fightin’ Herds.

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Fushimi Inari Taisha. Kyoto, Japan. By Abdulaziz Alrashed.

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Not only that, but there is also mouse-shaped bread.

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Oh hey, another wallpaper-worthy Minecraft build.

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Homer... has... changed. As if the original opening credits of The Simpsons weren’t full of small gags, French artist Yoann Hervo redrew the whole thing in a really trippy, nightmarish way.

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For months, I’ve had a specific if not dubious plan for Happy Home Designer. An evil scheme. A dastardly design. I’ve been waiting a long time to make this happen, damn it.

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I had hopes! Big hopes! There was potential, I thought, and maybe, just maybe, the filmmakers were going to show me up as an idiot by delivering a first-rate, smart Attack on Titan sequel. I was wrong. They did not.

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Last week’s ‘Shop Contest was a call-to-arms against the seasonal pumpkin spice craze. Our readers answered that call with both brutality and heavenly softness.

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I didn’t even know you could use Super Mario World bombs in all these different ways. Wow!

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Japanese magazine scans have revealed the fifth party member for Persona 5 with Yusuke Kitagawa, voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, and uses the Goemon Persona.

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Ghost in the Shell has always been about futuristic stuff, so seeing it in 3D in a planetarium-like dome was rather fitting.

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A Super Mario Maker player has recreated WarioWare within the game, including the series' iconic theme song between "microgames."

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Capcom revealed an extended version of their Tokyo Game Show 2015 trailer for Ace Attorney 6, and we get to see Apollo Justice make an appearance in it.

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During the Persona Special Stage show at Tokyo Game Show 2015, Atlus revealed the opening theme for Persona 5, featuring vocals by Lyn and composed by Shoji Meguro.

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During the Persona Special Stage at Tokyo Game Show 2015, Atlus announced a Persona 5 anime.

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