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Nintendo Switch Lite teardown reveals modified joystick components

iFixit has taken a Nintendo Switch Lite apart and discovered the ways it differs from its non-Lite siblings. If you’re wondering whether the gaming giant made changes to prevent drifting, which is a persistent issue for Joy-Cons, the answer is: maybe. Nintendo definitely did something to its joysticks — some of their components are a different size from the original, and the part that…
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'Humanity' is a PS4 game about the strangeness of crowds

You’ll be glad to hear that the PS4 will get at least one more truly oddball game (besides Wattam) during its lifetime. THA and Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s studio Enhance have announced Humanity, a game for PS4 and PSVR that imagines how aliens would simulate human…
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'Death Stranding' PS4 Pro includes a baby pod-inspired controller

Have you been so eager for Death Stranding that you’ve been saving a console purchase for it? You’re in luck. Sony has unveiled a limited edition Death Stranding PS4 Pro bundle that will debut alongside the game on November 8th. As you might have noticed, the real centerpiece is that translucent yellow DualShock 4 controller — yes, it’s directly inspired by the creepy baby…
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Sony’s Death Stranding PS4 has a translucent BB pod controller

Death Stranding is this year’s big PlayStation 4 exclusive, and that means one thing: a limited edition console. Today, Sony revealed a new version of the PS4 Pro that comes in a basic shade of white that’s covered in dark handprints, which seems to be a theme in Hideo…
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'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' story trailer focuses on freedom fighters

The next Call of Duty installment is a little over a month away, and a story trailer emerged for Modern Warfare during Sony’s latest State of Play stream. It focuses a little more on the freedom fighter side of the game than previous trailers. You’ll play as both a freedom fighter and a highly trained military operative through the campaign this time around. The trailer — which…
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Civilization VI is coming to the PS4

Civilization VI, the popular civilization-building game, is coming to the PS4 on November 22nd, marking the second major console port after the Switch launch last year. Civilization VI first launched back in 2016, but Firaxis Games has continued to keep things new since…
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Watch Microsoft’s Inside Xbox event here at 6PM ET

Microsoft will stream its latest Inside Xbox update tonight at 6PM ET. The one-hour episode will brief gamers on upcoming games like The Outer Worlds, Studio Wildcard’s Atlas and Ghost Recon Breakpoint. We’ll also get some insight into Project xCloud…
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How games like Minecraft and No Man’s Sky help players connect to their worlds

Condensed into the first few minutes of one of the biggest games of all time is the entire essence of a genre. Minecraft presents you first with a lush, almost infinitely large world, and then it allows you to instantly set about transforming it. You chop down trees and dig down through dirt and stone, each tapped block and mined resource disappearing forever. But you also add to the world…
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