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                        <title>Silksong truly was 2025&#039;s GOTY. For all the wrong reasons.</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/silksong-truly-was-2025s-goty-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Like most of you, I became indoctrinated into the Cult of Team Cherry about 8 years ago. Oh, I had my quibbles with Hollow Knight, I concede. All of my recommendations to friends were couche...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Like most of you, I became indoctrinated into the Cult of Team Cherry about 8 years ago. Oh, I had my quibbles with Hollow Knight, I concede. All of my recommendations to friends were couched in the careful "wonderful-but-there's-a-catch" tones one reaches for while trying to explain a flawed masterpiece. But the game was the&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>The Switch 2 is Nintendo&#039;s first Sony console</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/the-switch-2-is-nintendos-first-sony-console/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve visited Target in three of my past four weekend shopping trips. A peculiar sight has greeted me each time - a fresh batch of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. Nintendo, master dickerer of gau...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've visited Target in three of my past four weekend shopping trips. A peculiar sight has greeted me each time - a fresh batch of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. Nintendo, master dickerer of gauging supply-and-demand to build FOMO hype, has filled store shelves with adequate stock. With a device that should be the most in-demand piece of electronics launched in 2025. What timeline is this? I'm a crusty old bastard of a gamer now, and yet I fully acknowledge that I can be manipulated. The Switch was a perfect example - since I already had a WiiU, I didn't jump out&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Metroid Dread&#039;s Delicate Dance</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/metroid-dreads-delicate-dance/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[In Kurt Vonnegut&#039;s &quot;Cat&#039;s Cradle,&quot; the semi-satirical religion of Bokonism hits a bit too close to the bone. Vonnegut invented words to encapsulate terms and situations, much in the way some...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[In Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," the semi-satirical religion of Bokonism hits a bit too close to the bone. Vonnegut invented words to encapsulate terms and situations, much in the way some Japanese says too much in one word for a simple English translation. One of those terms is sinookas - the way our lives intertwine in unexpected, lovely, terrible ways. Were it not for Metroid: Other M, there would have been no online backlash to Yoshio Sakamoto's branch of the series. Without that backlash, the announcement of a return to the Prime series would not have been met with such a&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>The Peculiar Computing of a Pandemic</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/the-peculiar-computing-of-a-pandemic/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Being mostly a Nintendo gamer, it&#039;s been an odd time, watching the Switch&#039;s success get put into overdrive-on-Pixie-Sticks-and-amphetamines through the pandemic. It&#039;s been a sort of heat-che...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Being mostly a Nintendo gamer, it's been an odd time, watching the Switch's success get put into overdrive-on-Pixie-Sticks-and-amphetamines through the pandemic. It's been a sort of heat-check for Kyoto - "Hey, think we can get away with making Animal Crossing the marquee release for a year?" Maybe not in years past, but plagues make people do mad things, like buy Animal Crossing in Grand Theft Auto numbers. And here we are. Of course, every hot run comes to an end. The Switch may finally be staring mortality in the face - the PS5 shortages are ending, its sales streak has ended&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>By gawd, Metroid Dread exists. No thanks to you, Internet.</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/by-gawd-metroid-dread-exists-no-thanks-to-you-internet/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Handing out winners and losers for E3 seems like an antiquated idea. But...when Nintendo brings Zelda, an exclusive Atlus JRPG, two Advance War remakes, and one of the great missing Wii U po...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Handing out winners and losers for E3 seems like an antiquated idea. But...when Nintendo brings Zelda, an exclusive Atlus JRPG, two Advance War remakes, and one of the great missing Wii U ports (Fatal Frame), they make it pretty easy. Big N blew the roof off of E3. And yet, what has arguably thrown the most heat is a game no one saw coming - Metroid 5. Dread, if you prefer. There has been much rejoicing in comments sections across the interwebs. That would be normal if this were any other fandom in the world, but the Metroid fandom isn't like&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Enjoy Monster Hunter&#039;s big moment. It was never guaranteed.</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/enjoy-monster-hunters-big-moment-it-was-never-guaranteed/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s easy to take this all for granted. Here we are, in 2021, with arguably the most Japanese videogame series in the industry taking a victory lap on Nintendo hardware that is selling like ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[It's easy to take this all for granted. Here we are, in 2021, with arguably the most Japanese videogame series in the industry taking a victory lap on Nintendo hardware that is selling like hotcakes. It's obvious now, of course. "Monster Hunter broke through on PS4, and it makes all the sense in the world for Capcom to make one on Switch." We all saw this coming. Except we didn’t. Not those of us who were watching the gaming industry a decade ago. It was a different world, as memorably summarized in a Cracked.com image that gained traction before the age&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>At least 2020 lacked dumb Metroid hot-takes.</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/at-least-2020-lacked-dumb-metroid-hot-takes/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[You don&#039;t need a yearly retrospective, do you? I&#039;m not here to write one. 2020 has been a malignant, joy-sucking farce for pretty much everyone. It&#039;s been a slog that undermined every good m...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[You don't need a yearly retrospective, do you? I'm not here to write one. 2020 has been a malignant, joy-sucking farce for pretty much everyone. It's been a slog that undermined every good moment; hence the dearth of any content here. It's hard to write as if gaming is of stupendous importance when we've all been perpetually 30 seconds away from doom-scrolling at the latest headlines. However, as the year closes, I've found myself at least somewhat pleased by one gaming development - or rather, the lack of a prior development perpetuating itself. 2020 has had a real lack of dumb&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>The Original Final Fantasy 7 Still Has Something To Say</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[It doesn&#039;t take rose-colored glasses to see that Final Fantasy VII stands up.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[It doesn't take rose-colored glasses to see that Final Fantasy VII stands up.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>In 2020, we should learn from the Great Age of Dumb Hot Takes</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/in-2020-we-should-learn-from-the-great-age-of-dumb-hot-takes/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 03:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[How do you sum up a decade of gaming?  Lists of the &quot;10 Best&quot; (fill in the blank)?  A long, elaborate write-up of the greatest thing you played?  Wistfully recalling how it felt to unbox you...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[How do you sum up a decade of gaming?  Lists of the "10 Best" (fill in the blank)?  A long, elaborate write-up of the greatest thing you played?  Wistfully recalling how it felt to unbox your favorite piece of tech? I suppose those are all viable.  But when I look back at the past decade, I'm mostly reminded of hot-takes and forum flame-wars, intolerable fandoms and clickbait.  None of this was completely native to the 2010s, true, but from a Nintendo fan's perspective, you can trace a lot of the poison to one article - a laughable screed that divided a&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>&quot;Repetitive gameplay&quot; is an astonishingly stupid criticism.</title>
                        <link>https://gamewitness.com/community/front-page-articles/repetitive-gameplay-is-an-astonishingly-stupid-criticism/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Videogame development is a complex beast, done by boffins who ideally understand the intricacies of both modern technology and the psychology of how humans play.  Gaming, as a pastime and ho...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Videogame development is a complex beast, done by boffins who ideally understand the intricacies of both modern technology and the psychology of how humans play.  Gaming, as a pastime and hobby, though, is a simple, reliable experience.  You press buttons.  Sometimes you make a gesture.  It is that perspicuous conceit that has made it geek culture's great gift to modern entertainment.  We can't all be Serena Williams or Ayrton Senna, but many of us are fortunate enough to be able to manipulate buttons.  In the virtual realm, we can be as fast as Quicksilver, as powerful as the Phoenix Force. All&hellip;]]></content:encoded>
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