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Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Is As Whimsical As Saving The World From Evil Spirits Gets
Japan’s highest grossing film of 2015 is pretty silly. Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie, making its U.S. debut at a special Fathom Events theater showing this weekend, keeps the wacky humor of the television show rolling, even when the fate of the entire world is at stake. I got to watch a special preview of the…
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Valve Is Adding Native DualShock 4 Support To Steam
The DualShock 4 makes for a lovely PC gaming controller, but it doesn’t usually get the support it deserves, especially the touch pad and gyroscopic features. An update coming to Steam’s controller API will have PS4 controller configurability baked right in. The news comes from the Steam Dev Days event, from a Steam controller talk…
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Friendship is free-to-play mobile match-three? My Little Pony: Puzzle Party is out today for iOS and Android. Having briefly played the first 60 levels, I can attest to its pony-ness. In case further proof is needed, here’s a video of show’s voice actors recording dialogue for the game.
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Battleborn Gets Its First Story DLC Today
Fans of Battleborn’s story operations that are sick to death of playing the initial set of scenarios get a reprieve today with Attikus and the Thrall Rebellion, a retelling of the third Thrall uprising with a little film noir flair. Attikus and the Thrall Rebellion is the first of five new story operations promised for…
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Character Creation Is The Best Part Of The New Skylanders
The idea was to show folks a quick five minute video of the character creation process in Skylanders: Imaginators while I work on our review. What I ended up is a nearly 20 minute testament to how deep and compelling this year’s gimmick turned out. It’s beyond gimmick, really. Skylanders: Giants had large characters. Swap…
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Dragon Quest Builders Feels Like A More Guided Minecraft
I love the idea of Minecraft, but I lack the time, patience and attention span to get anywhere in it. What I need is Minecraft with a strong guiding hand. That’s Dragon Quest Builders in a nutshell. I’ve spent several hours wandering about Minecraft. I start projects and end them before the materials are gathered.…
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Netflix’s Skylanders Series Looks Like Fun
Launching October 28 on Netflix, Skylanders Academy taps top animation, voice and production talent to make the toys-to-life game characters livelier than ever. Check out the official trailer. Along with this year’s installment of the hit video game franchise, Skylanders Academy gives characters like Spyro, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet-Vac and Pop Fizz much more personality.…
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We All Live In An Official Lego Yellow Submarine
From silly children’s song to animated classic, The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” has been sparking imaginations since its 1966 debut. What better inspiration for the next official Lego Ideas set? Suddenly I know exactly what to get my mother for Christmas. Based on a design submitted to the Lego Ideas program by amateur musician and songwriter…
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Which Of Today’s Risqué New Vita Games Is Right For You?
In one corner we have Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors, a game about disciplining young women in order to save them from eternal damnation. In the other, Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhinu, a game about girls turning into weapons by kissing each other. Decisions, decisions. Now before anyone jumps into the comments to rant about how disgusting,…
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The Saddest Story In World Of Warcraft: Legion
Legion is a rich and rewarding expansion pack for followers of Warcraft lore, but with a plot revolving around a demonic force attempting to wipe out all life on the planet, not every storyline is going to have a happy ending. This is the unhappiest of them all. Spoilers for World of Warcraft: Legion follow.…
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One Of Call Of Duty‘s Greatest Heroes Died Today
Today marks the passing of one of Call of Duty’s finest soldiers. After valiantly fighting his way through nearly three entire Modern Warfare games, one Task Force 141 didn’t make it back from the October 11, 2016 mission to assassinate terrorist leader Vladimir Makarov. Spoilers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 follow. Surely someone…
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Bloxels Lets You Make Video Games With Colorful Plastic Cubes
My children used to love playing with colorful plastic blocks. Then they discovered iPad entertainment, and there was no going back. Or is there? Bloxels from Pixel Press is a clever learning toy that lets children build their own video games and characters, one block at a time. Bloxels marries the touchscreen magic that the…
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Skyrim Special Edition PC Requirements Are Much More Demanding
The remastered version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has gone gold in advance of its October 28 release, and Bethesda has released the recommended PC specs for running the prettier version of the 2011 RPG. As anyone who’s played around with mods for Skyrim on PC knows, the set of requirements for the 2011…
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World of Final Fantasy Graphics Comparison, PS4 Vs Vita
World of Final Fantasy arrives later this month, bringing piles of pint-sized creatures to two different PlayStation platforms. Square Enix has put together a pair of videos showing off differences in graphics and loading times between the PS4 and Vita versions of the game. With cross-save support and the promise of hours of tinkering with…
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Mini Gaming PCs Are Ready For Virtual Reality
With recent advances from both AMD and Nvidia bringing mobile graphics processors within a breath of desktop power levels, PCs that make use of laptop tech to be tiny are more powerful than ever. I’m currently playing with Zotac’s GTX 1060-powered Magnus Zbox, and it’s handling VR like a champ. Zotac launched the original mini…
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The New Power Rangers Game Sure Looks Like It’s From The ’90s
Fans of the rainbow rangers have been eagerly awaiting the reveal of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Mega Battle since the name was leaked earlier this year. Well here it is, and it’s exactly the sort of game we’d have been playing when the show first launched. Arriving digitally for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One…
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There’s A DC Comics RPG Coming Out Next Month
Back inJuly of last year I shared the first five minutes or so of a game called DC Comics Legends, a turn-based mobile RPG that I said should be hitting North America soon. By soon, I meant this November. Oops. DC Comics Legends is basically DC’s answer to Marvel Avengers Alliance, which is nice because…
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Gears Of War 4 Runs Like It Was Made For PC
Earlier this year Microsoft released the DX12-powered Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on PC, and it was a stuttering mess. Looks like Microsoft and developer The Coalition learned a lot from that debacle, because the Windows 10 version of Gears of War 4 runs like a proper PC release should. Now keep in mind that I…
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