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World Of Warcraft: Legion Realizes The Dream Of Widescreen Loading Graphics
After years of clinging desperately to the squarish 4:3 aspect ratio, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team finally let go, diving deep into glorious, modern monitor filling 16:9 for all of Legion’s loading screens. It’s a bit jarring, really. As of the previous expansion pack, 2014’s Warlords of Draenor, the only time a widescreen image was…
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There’s A Marvel Tsum Tsum Game Out Now
I’ve been having trouble understanding the world’s fascination with tiny Disney character heads, but now that there’s a game featuring tiny Marvel character heads, it’s a little less trouble. Marvel Tsum Tsum is now out on Android and iOS in North America. They’re not technically decapitated heads. They’ve got feet. If anything, Disney’s removed the…
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That Final Fantasy XV Mobile Pinball Thing Is Out
Justice Monsters Five, the game that’s supposedly wildly popular in the fictional world of Final Fantasy XV, is now available as a downloadable free-to-play mobile game for iOS and Android. From what I’ve played so far, Justice Monsters Five is a higher-end collectible hero game with a pinball twist. Elementally attuned enemies appear on te…
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Halo‘s Warthog Probably Handles A Lot Better In Forza Horizon 3
After years of pleading from fans on both sides, Microsoft is finally crossing-over two of its most popular characters: Forza car and Halo Warthog. I spent most of my time in the wonderfully off-road friendly Forza Horizon 2 wishing I were driving a Warthog over the hills and through the other cars of Souther France…
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World of Warcraft: Legion Starts Really Well
Raccoon the grizzled Outlaw Rogue stands in demon-besieged Dalaran, moments before Azeroth’s greatest mages pull off their most amazing feat yet: making me even more alt-crazy than I already was. Judging from the first few hours, Legion is going to be a very good problem for me. The shot above was captured moments before the…
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World Of Warcraft: Legion Launches Tonight, And Azeroth Is Screwed
With the European launch of World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion a little over an hour away and North America following six hours later, Azeroth is not in great shape. Heroes are dead, leadership is faltering, and our only hope for salvation lies in a set of artifacts no one’s seen for thousands of years. This…
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Project Diva X Makes Up For Its Short Song List With Story And Substance
With fans anxiously awaiting word on whether Sega plans to bring the 224 song monster that is Project Diva Future Tone to the West, why should they bother with the measly 30 tracks in Hatsune Miku Project Diva X? Because this one’s got more actual game in it. The rhythm games we’ve seen featuring Japan’s…
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My Daily Dose Of Bullet Hell Shooter
Sometime I just need to dodge some bullets and blow up some spaceships. Lately sometime has been every moment I’ve had alone with my iPhone, thanks to Firi Games’ bite-sized shooter Phoenix II. A free-to-play bullet hell shooter that’s obviously the sequel to something, I picked up Phoenix II when it popped up on the…
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The Floor Is Lava In Klei’s First 3D Game
Chances are you’ve already played Hot Lava, the first 3D game from Klei Entertainment of Don’t Starve and Invisible, Inc. fame. It’s the video game version of the perennial children’s imagination game with only one rule: don’t touch the floor. Having been a precocious young lad with little regard for my parents’ furniture, I played…
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The Attack On Titan Game Has One Job, And It Does It Pretty Well
All I wanted from Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom, the video game adaptation of the action horror anime sensation, was to feel like a badass swinging around town in my 3D maneuvering gear. As long as Tecmo Koei got that right, everything else could be wrong. The 3D maneuvering gear is the coolest anime…
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Playing With Armello‘s Latest Rat Bastard
Fantasy board/card game Armello was one of my favorite games of 2015. While it remains just as fun to play now as it was then, it’s adding four new fantasy animals to play as in next week’s Usurpers Hero Pack. Watch me play as Sargon, the dirtiest rat ever. Bringing the playable character total to…
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The Best Thing About Lego Bastion Is Taking Him Apart Again
Imagine the warm wave of catharsis washing over you as you spend your post-match taking apart Piggy Brother’s fantastic Lego rendition of Overwatch’s Bastion brick-by-brick. Ah yes, feels good. As adorable and endearing as Blizzard wants Bastion to come across, there’s no denying that seeing the military grade robot murder machine and his little bird…
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Miitomo‘s Japanese High School Rap Song Is Kind Of Catchy
The latest in a series of Japanese promo videos for Nintendo’s mobile social networking app demonstrates Miitomo’s ability to bring plucky teens together in song, which unfortunately isn’t a real thing. We’ve not heard much from Miitomo in a couple of months, what with all the Pokemon Go-ing happening, but the app is still going…
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Battleborn Adds A New Character And Reveals Another, In Case Anyone’s Interested
The third of five promised free characters arrived today for Battleborn, the game that makes me sad every time I write about it. He’s a pink bird. They’ve also revealed a kid in a mech suit as character number four. That’s pretty cool, right? I should not be sad while watching a video of a…
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Rick & Morty Co-Creator Announces VR Game Studio With Comic Strip
Rick & Morty co-creator (and co-voicer) Justin Roiland has teamed up with former Epic Games producer Tanya Watson to create Squanchtendo, a virtual reality studio focused on something something. Comics are fun! Look at those comics! Roiland is a man who loves video games and often belches into a microphone. Watson has worked on games…
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Stranger Things Adventure Game Tribute Is Just Right
Mixing their love for old school adventure games like King’s Quest with everybody’s love affair with Netflix’s supernatural horror series, the folks atInfamous Quests cooked up a small playable slice of what needs to be a much bigger game. The Stranger Things tribute game is a one-room point-and-click adventure, covering basically a single scene from…
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CultureSnacktaku Unwraps Burger King’s Whopperrito
After six decades of serving time-tested favorites that folks seem to enjoy and occasionally screwing about with new french fries, Burger King has decided it’s time to experiment with Tex-Mex for some godawful reason. So they put most of a Whopper in a soft tortilla. Sure. It’s not quite a traditional fast food burrito, not…
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Nendoroid Meta Knight Figure Deserves All The Hugs
So here he is with open arms, hoping you’ll see what your love means to him, Meta Knight. Up for preorder now through September with a release slated for March of 017, Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid version of Kirby’s coolest foe is a little bit of cheating. After all, the Nendoroid series is all about…
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