After 5 months, Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon Wii U servers are coming back online, but Nintendo's already threatening to take them down permanently

Any video game series worth its salt has its very own set of plushes for fans to collect, so naturally a series as famous and long-running as Final Fantasy has a lot of them. Pulling from all of its games, Final Fantasy's plush collection is a large one, and those of you who want to buy some might want to pick one game for now and stick to it. However, if you're on the hunt for plushes that embody the entire series, then Square Enix's new Chocobo and Moogle plushes might be for you.

Ted Lasso might be over, but spin-offs may very well be on the way.

A little over three years ago, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was among the world's most geographically concentrated technology giants with almost the entirety of its capacity within a 300-mile radius. Now, it is on the verge of becoming one of the most globally diversified chipmakers. This wasn't the plan.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 10, “Hegemony.”]

Shares in Japan's Sony fell 6 percent in Tokyo trade after first-quarter profit tumbled, with the entertainment conglomerate reporting lacklustre performances by its movie and financial divisions.

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The last 24 hours were quite frightening for the Earth, as major solar storm prediction models said that a highly energized cannibal CME could deliver a glancing blow to the Earth today, August 9. However, it never came, leading the scientists to believe that the CME narrowly escaped the planet. Investigations are still ongoing to see whether the CME could have been delayed. However, there is some bad news as well. In the early hours of August 8, another X1-class solar flare erupted and sparked a deep shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. Concerns are now rising on whether it will also send another CME towards our planet.

When I read that The Witcher's executive producer, Tomek Baginski, had blamed Americans and young people for the show's «painful» simplifications of the source material, I simply shrugged.

After months of speculation, the Red Dead Redemption remaster/remake saga hit a damp squelch of an anticlimax yesterday afternoon, when Rockstar proudly announced it was porting the basic version of the original PS3 and Xbox 360 game to the Nintendo Switch and PS4. For $50, no less. Fans were upset.

It's no longer shocking news when airline passengers complain about their luggage going missing. In fact, many find that their luggage was not even boarded on the flight that they took. Not much anyone could do about it. Till now! Apple Airtag to the rescue! In the recent months, Apple AirTag has been making headlines when it comes to finding missing luggage at the airport. In the most recent case, a woman named Sandra Shuster and her 15-year-old daughter Ruby were flying from Baltimore to Denver via Chicago.

Oh, and possibly, dear. If you were hyped up after all those rumours about a Red Dead Redemption remake then you are going to be disappointed as although the game has been announced it is for Switch and PS4 only. This is not a remake, this is not a 60fps 4K version for modern consoles, this is the old game but running on new consoles. Well, a ten year old console in the case of the PS4.

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