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As announced earlier this year, Final Fantasy VII Remake is getting an upgrade on PlayStation 5. That PS5 upgrade is called Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and as one would imagine, it'll take advantage of the PlayStation 5's more powerful hardware to improve visuals and loading times. Today, Square Enix debuted the final trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, giving us a look at the PlayStation 5 upgrades in action.

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Fortnite's ripped, adorable cat skin Meowscles is about to get a big cartoon makeover. Players know to expect the skin -- Epic has been teasing it on its Twitter account. One of the official Fortnite Twitter accounts took things a bit farther, however, when it accidentally tweeted out the upcoming variant before quickly deleting the content.

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition is launching next week, and before it does, BioWare and Electronic Arts have made some extras from the original Mass Effect trilogy free for a limited time. Much of what's available includes extras that were originally part of the Mass Effect 2 and 3 Deluxe Editions, though there's also one big bonus from the original Mass Effect.

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During the company's full-year financial results revealed this week, Nintendo tipped a drop. The company said that potential issues could arise over the coming year with component procurement. As a result of these issues, Nintendo expects that sales of their Nintendo Switch console could have a 12 per cent drop in sales.

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Earlier this week, we saw a leak concerning Burning Crusade Classic, the incoming expansion for World of Warcraft Classic. That leak, which centered around ads published the Battle.net launcher that were then quickly pulled, suggested that Burning Crusade Classic's release date would be June 1st. This sparked a lot of debate among the WoW Classic crowd, but now we're getting confirmation that those leaks were indeed accurate.

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In the afternoon of May 6, 2021, Microsoft had a few issues in play with Xbox games. They showed a "major outage" occurring in their "store & subscriptions" section of Xbox Status readouts, as well as "limited" issues with games & gaming as well as Cloud Gaming. Launching games will be limited until this is fixed, and you won't likely be able to purchase new games until Microsoft figures out what their deal is.

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Earlier this year, Wizard of the Coast announced that it's returning to the Dark Alliance series after almost two decades. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and its sequel were originally released for Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube back in the early 2000s, and though this new Dark Alliance game will swap out the Baldur's Gate name in exchange for Dungeons & Dragons branding, it'll still offer similar action RPG gameplay. Before Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance launches in June, however, it seems we'll be revisiting the past.

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The game Super Animal Royale is not made for little kids. It looks super cute - and it is! But it's rated T for Teens - for all the violence it contains. This game comes from MODUS and Pixile Studios and was made to be a sort of alternate reality iteration of Battle Royale games like Fortnite and PUBG. In the Super Animal World, characters are excited to participate in a death match against one another for ultimate glory - and it's sort of like Animal Crossing, too.

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With Mass Effect Legendary Edition just over a week out from release, BioWare and Electronic Arts have released an art creator that allows you to make your own box art for the game. The tool allows you to customize the image used for Mass Effect Legendary Edition's box art with your own crew, giving you the opportunity to choose not only the characters that appear, but also the location that's depicted in the artwork and the color scheme as well.

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Rocket League plans were leaked this week courtesy of the Epic Games vs Apple court case. In a document called "Epic Games Presentation on 2021 Plans", a whole bunch of Rocket League data was delivered. Two different sorts of Rocket League will be appearing on mobile devices, including Rocket League "2D" and a "next-generation client with full game experience across all platforms, including mobile."

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Nintendo today shared its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 2021, and its safe to say that it was a very good year for the company. Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic keeping everyone at home for the majority of the fiscal year and probably combined with the fact that next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft have been hard to find since launch, the Switch had a stellar year, finishing with life-to-date shipments of 84.59 million units.

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Although the PlayStation 5 has broken a few records last month, Nintendo's Switch still continues to hold a special place in the market and gamers' hearts. That's despite that admittedly aged hardware that shouldn't be able to compete with heavyweights like the Xbox or PlayStation. Part of the Switch's appeal is its portability and flexibility but another part is the unique experiences it offers, like this new game that practically gamifies game-making.

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