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The Japanese magazine Famitsu (which is short for ‘Famicom Tsushin’, or ‘Famicom Journal’) is one of the longest running games magazines in the world, and it regularly breaks stories that are picked up by media outlets worldwide. It’s most well known for its unusual reviewing system, in which four reviewers each mark a game out

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