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This plushie of Kirby’s video game co-star wasn’t broken, but it got fixed anyway.
Why just hand your loved ones money when you can send them on an adventure? The experience is priceless!
Watch this clever hamster smash her way through the game, complete with an adorable detour down the pipe.
A Muslim man being detained at a Yokohama immigration center was served pork and has gone on a hunger strike in protest.
And to think, for all these years we’ve been using timed electronics like a bunch of chumps!
We take a look at thecacera pacifica, known as the “Pikachu sea slug” in Japan, which many say is the real-life inspiration for the Pokémon character.
Or, at the very least, they would make a fantastic urban fantasy young adult novel series.
Gen Urobuchi is penning script for the King of the Monsters’ first-ever animated theatrical feature.
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