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In his review of Metroid Prime 4, Watts criticized a frustrating design choice by Nintendo and Retro Studios. He explained that when he reached the endgame, he expected to be able to load a previous save file to finish any remaining exploration and collect missed upgrades. However, the game’s auto-save unexpectedly locked him into the final area, and his most recent manual save was overwritten, forcing him to start a new game. He described the situation as a confusing and unwelcome limitation.

In an interview with Ars Technica, Gilbert explained that the game was originally intended to be a sprawling, open-world role-playing game similar to The Legend of Zelda. He and a small team – an artist and a designer – worked on it for about a year before Gilbert concluded that the project wouldn’t come to fruition.

The recent ver1.1.0 patch, which introduced the first set of downloadable content, caused some new bugs to appear. These issues are happening in the “The Savior of Earth” and “Light Cuts Through Darkness” stages, both found near the end of the game in Chapter 7.

By the end of 2025, technology had advanced to the point where things once imagined only in science fiction were now reality. Self-driving cars from Waymo were widely available, Elon Musk’s Neuralink allowed paralyzed individuals to regain independence by feeding themselves, and AI had become integral to most jobs.

The Wii U unfortunately wasn’t very successful, which is disappointing considering it had some genuinely good games. Being a Nintendo console, it naturally had some strengths. Even though it didn’t have a huge number of blockbuster titles, it offered enough quality games with lasting appeal to make it worth playing regularly. You wanted to get your money’s worth out of it, after all!

A dedicated community of plant collectors exists, and they’re willing to spend a lot of money – sometimes hundreds or even thousands of dollars – to obtain unusual plants that aren’t commonly sold in stores.

Scientists are now studying samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully brought material from the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 after collecting it in 2020. Although recent focus has been on comet-asteroid 3I/ATLAS and theories about it, new findings from Bennu are proving to be remarkably significant.

This update comes over a year after Cody Ko left TMG Studios. His departure followed accusations made by Tana Mongeau that significantly changed the direction of the network.

I’m so excited – the Philippines gets to start testing the game today, December 3rd! It’s a little frustrating that it’s just in one region right now, but honestly, it’s pretty typical for mobile games to launch this way. Hopefully, it’ll be available everywhere else soon!

Pluribus is a hugely popular show right now, centered around a thrilling story: a mind virus is connecting everyone’s thoughts, except for a few unlikely individuals who might be the key to saving the world.