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Live-Action Mario Galaxy Might Make You A Little Queasy
When the folks atCorridor Digital realized they could warp footage from their new Gear 360 camera into tiny planets, a live-action Mario Galaxy video was the next logical step. Hold on to your stomachs, folks. The two immediate effects of the live-action Mario Galaxy video are mild stomach upset from all the spinning and an…
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Virtual Reality Is A Nice Place To Play Card Games
Virtual reality can’t fix the disconnect between clicking a card and slamming it down on a table, but playing on a battlefield between two fantasy dimensions certainly helps distract from it. Watch us play High Voltage’s Dragon Front on the Oculus Rift and see for yourself. High Voltage Software might have had trouble landing original…
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Charizard’s Pokémon Card Is Getting Beefed Up
Next month’s Evolutions expansion might be the end of the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s XY series, but it’s giving some of the very first cards in the 20-year-old game a powerful new beginning. Looks like Charizard’s lost a little weight. The art remains the same, but the numbers in the frames have changed. The Evolutions…
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Dress Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Character Up And Do The Pikachu Dance
The latest Pokémon Sun and Moon update video shows off character customization, pet grooming and some version-specific Pokémon, but Pikachu’s Z-Move dance steals the show. You know what Yo-Kai Watch has that Pokémon didn’t? Dancing with your pet monsters. But with the super-powerful Z-Moves in Pokémon Sun and Moon, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to…
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League Of Legends Gets A Board Game, And It’s Sick With Yordles
A three-year labor of love for a very small team at League of Legends developer Riot Games, Mechs Vs. Minions is a co-op programmatic board game pitting four freakishly adorable Yordle characters against a horde of trash mobs. As the game’s story goes, Rumble invites Heimerdinger, Tristana, Corki, and Ziggs to his completely prestigious mech…
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Bikers Update Brings Motorcycle Clubs To Grand Theft Auto Online
Coming soon to the multiplayer side of Grand Theft Auto V, the Bikers update will allow players to recreate their Sons of Anarchy fantasies in real-time with up to seven fellow motorcycle enthusiasts. Detailed in a news post over at the Rockstar website, the Bikers update introduces motorcycle clubs to the game, allowing players to…
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CultureToy Time Plays With Marvel Legends’ New X-Men Build-A-Figure Series
Hasbro’s excellent six-inch Marvel Legends line has relatively X-Men free since 2014’s paltry Toys’R’Us exclusive Jubilee series. Now Marvel’s mutant heroes return with eight figures and the parts to build the Juggernaut, bitch. Sorry, reflex The new X-Men line, showing up in stores as we speak, features eight heroes (or anti-heroes) coming together to battle…
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Lego Movie Batman Meets Knight Rider In Lego Dimensions Next Year
Continuing to pile on the properties into 2017, Lego Dimensions gets a massive story pack based on the upcoming The Lego Batman Movie and ‘80s David Hasselhoff on February 10. The good news is not only are we getting a chance to play as iconic ‘80s hero Michael Knight, driving about saving people from whatever…
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Team Rocket’s Boss Is Hunted In The First Installment Of Pokémon Generations
Pokémon Generations is a new weekly animated series that aims to flesh out the events from 20 years of Pokémon games. In the first full episode, the international police track mysterious Team Rocket leader Giovanni to the Viridian City gym. Technically this is the second episode of the new animated series. The first, also released…
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World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: Ever Questing
Three weeks into World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, and I’m still logging into my Druid every day to go on adventures. It’s nice when daily questing doesn’t mean doing the same quests every day, isn’t it? The idea of dailies, repeatable quests players perform every day in order to grind reputation and earn faction-exclusive gear,…
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The Mildly Overwatch-ish Paladins Enters Open Beta
Hi-Rez Studios’ free-to-play hero shooter Paladins enters open beta today, and while its collectible card-based character customization system sets it apart from other games in the genre, Androxus here is pretty much Reaper with horns. I was putting together a little rotator GIF for the top of the post, planning to talk about what is…
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Mad Catz Sells Saitek To Logitech
In 2007 Mad Catz purchased relatively venerable PC peripheral maker Saitek for $30 million. After nearly nine years of flight sticks and farming controllers, Mad Catz is passing Saitek over to Logitech for a mere $13 million. Being a relatively old man, I’ve been playing with Saitek stuff since not long after the company was…
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World Of Final Fantasy Is The Fall’s Most Exciting Final Fantasy Game
When new Final Fantasy XV footage arrives I nod and silently appreciate. When a new World of Final Fantasy trailer shows up, I chair dance and squeak. Is that just me? It’s the difference between travelling with unfamiliar characters in a strange, new world and going to a theme park packed with your best Final…
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Digimon World: Next Order Is Coming To North America, But Not On Vita [Updates]
The Digimon game featuring a breeding system so complex Richard Eisenbeis had to make a spreadsheet is coming to the Americas, but not in its original portable form. Digimon World: Next Order arrives on PlayStation 4 in early 2017. Digimon’s popularity is on the rise, which leads to games outside of the kiddy fare we’re…
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The Latest Pac-Man Game Breaks The Rules
You touch a ghost unaffected by a Power Pellet, and you die. That’s how it was. That’s how it should always be. This is madness, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2. It’s just the sort of madness fans of the first Pac-Man Championship Edition game should get a kick out of. Touch a ghost once, bounce off.…
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Insomniac’s Latest VR Game Is A Basic Brawler, And That’s Fine
There are virtual reality games that seek to offer bold and immersive new experiences. Feral Rites, from the Insomniac Games team behind Sunset Overdrive, is not one of those. It’s just a 3D brawler adventure from a slightly different perspective, and that works. One of my favorite virtual reality games so far has been Lucky’s…
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Super Mario Stickers Seem Like A Good Reason To Upgrade To iOS 10
Ahead of the release of his mobile runner later this year, Mario makes his iMessage debut this week in the Super Mario Runsticker pack. As long as you’ve upgraded to iOS 10, you can have Mario all up in your chat box. There are plenty of good reasons to upgrade to the latest version of…
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LEGO Dimensions Aliens Unite
In the latest teaser for LEGO Dimensions’ season two content, the girl from Krypton introduces us to a stranded alien botanist in search of a phone. Perhaps there is one in that odd blue box. Just another reminder to players of Lego’s pop culture mashup spectacular that the spending is about to begin anew. Wave…
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