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The Full Lego Super Mario Launch Lineup Will Run You Nearly $600
Today Nintendo and Lego revealed the full range of Lego Super Mario sets launching on August 1. Between the starter kit, ten expansion packs, four power-up kits, and a series of blind bag characters, the whole starting lineup will run collectors around $590. Don’t worry, parents of young children. There is no reason to collect…
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OpinionImpressionsLittle Orpheus Is A Fantastic Cold War Era Journey To The Center Of The Earth
In Little Orpheus, the latest game from Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture developer The Chinese Room, Soviet cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich is debriefed on the 1962 mission that saw him exploring the secret world beneath the planet’s crust in a massive atomic-powered drilling machine. It’s got dinosaurs, lost civilizations, and all the excitement and adventure of…
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CultureIs BloodRayne is making a comeback? Publisher Ziggurat Gameshas acquired several game properties from Majesco Entertainment, including Nazi-killing vampire BloodRayne and ill-fated sci-fi adventure Advent Rising. Ziggurat plans to update older games to be better compatible with modern systems while looking into potential new games.
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CultureWho Doesn’t Want To Be A Cybernetic Corgi Named Bullet
In ProtoCorgi from Chilean developer Kemono Games, players are cast as Bullet, a C3 class cybernetic lifeform, as he attempts to save his creator from evil aliens. C3 stands for “Cute Cyber Corgi,” as if there could be any other kind of cyber Corgi. Coming out in November for PC with a Switch port following…
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OpinionImpressionsPersona 4 Golden PC Is The Definitive Edition Of A Damn Good Game
Trapped on a dead Sony handheld no longer: The ultimate version of Persona 4, the once Vita-exclusive Persona 4 Golden, launched today for PC via Steam I’ve been playing it for a couple weeks now, and I have no new complaints. Old complaints, sure. The fourth game in the storied series, originally released in 2008…
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Culture13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Vanillaware’s gorgeous 2D side-scrolling mech adventure, is finally coming to North American PS4 on September 8. The adventure/strategy game will launch with Japanese voiceover, with English voices coming in a free post-launch update. It’s so damn pretty.
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CultureResident Evil 8: Village Announced By Capcom
Look who showed up towards the end of Sony’s PlayStation 5 reveal. Why it’s Resident Evil 8, coming in 2021. Or do we call it Resident Evil: Village, to match up with the rumored title that’s been circulating for months leading up to the official reveal? How about we split the difference and call it…
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CultureOddworld: Soulstorm Coming To The PS5
Oddworld is back! Oddworld: Soulstorm is coming to the PlayStation 5, starring everyone’s favorite Mudokan, Abe. Oddworld: Soulstorm was actually announced back in 2015 as a full remake of the second Abe game, Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus. We’ve seen gameplay of the remake/re-imagining previously. Its appearance at today’s PS5 reveal is the first we’ve heard of…
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CultureGran Turismo 7 Races To PS5
Sony’s superior racing simulation series is coming to the PlayStation 5 as Gran Turismo 7, and this time around it’s got an extensive campaign mode. Hundreds of races between hundreds of different vehicles with ultra-realistic tuning are all well and good, but a campaign mode? Might be exactly what this arcade racing fan needs to…
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CultureWatch The PS5 Reveal Event Right Here
It’s time for Sony to show us what to expect when the PlayStation 5 arrives later this year. Expect games, dates, and possibly prices. And who knows, we might even get a look at the actual hardware this time around. Let’s watch! We’re watching the English version of the stream on YouTube. If you do…
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CultureOdds and EndsAnimal Crossing: The Last Airbender
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony, until the Fire Nation ruined everything, the jerks. Don’t worry, YouTube’s The Nooksters bring all four elements back together for an outstanding remake of the Avatar: The Last Airbender intro in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Utilizing the amazing costumes put together by…
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Your PC must be this powerful to play Death Stranding. Kojima’s Norman Reedus doing stuff simulator comes to PC on July 14, with modest system requirements as befitting a port of a late-life PlayStation 4 game. You’ll need beefier hardware for 4K but for 1080p previous-generation graphics hardware will do just fine.
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OpinionImpressionsThe Excellent Ys: Memories of Celceta Just Jumped From Vita To PS4
If you want to know why I love Nihon Falcom’s long-running Ys series of fantasy action role-playing games so much, look no further than Ys: Memories of Celceta, which is easier than ever now that a PlayStation 4 port has been released. Though released for the PlayStation Vita in 2012, three years after Ys Seven…
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CultureOdds and EndsIt’s Animal Crossing Music Played On Tesla Coils
The fine folks at ArcAttack use tesla coils to create music by shaking the air with electrical discharge. Sometimes a robot plays drums. Their latest musical lightning storm happens to be an amazing rendition of the music that plays at 5PM in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s shockingly good. Get it? I am sorry. If…
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CultureNo Man’s Sky Gets Crossplay Between PlayStation 4, Xbox One, And PC
They’re going to have to change the game’s name to Everybody’s Sky, as Hello Games replaces the entire network backend of their procedurally-generated space opera No Man’s Sky to open up crossplay across all game platforms. Now PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC players will be able to explore the game’s space lanes together. Tomorrow…
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ReviewsToysA Great Big Book About Tiny Toy Cars
Remember Micro Machines, the tiny toy cars pitched by fast-talking pitchman John Moschitta Jr.back in the late ‘80s? Bitmap Books’ Micro But Many: An Unofficial Micro Machines Collection is 400 pages of color photos and history that will ensure you never, ever forget them. Featuring photographs of more than 1,000 nickel-sized cars, trucks, planes, boats, and…
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CultureA Delightful Tour Of Danny Trejo’s Animal Crossing Island
In the first episode of “Danny’s Diary,” a new segment in Gary Whitta’s star-studded in-game talk show Animal Talking, see the power of Animal Crossing: New Horizons transform one of Hollywood’s toughest, most intimidating actors into an adorable butterfly-collecting islander. Yeah, I just called Danny “Machete” Trejo adorable, and for good reason. It’s the only…
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Do you like games about undead pegleg criminal penguins being heroic? Of course you do. That’s why you’re so excited about Prinny 1+2: Exploded and Reloaded coming to the Switch on October 13. It’s two Disgaea-adjacent PlayStation Portable games, now playable on a system that’s not dead, dood.
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ReviewsToysArtist Gives Us A Peek Inside Animal Crossing‘s Resident Loan Shark
Having trouble paying back Tom Nook’s loans in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? I find it helps to imagine the person you owe bells to without clothes. Or skin. Kinda like resin artist Scott Wilkowski has done with his “Nookowski” series of see-through figures (via ToysREvil). Scott Wilkowski makes amazing things with resin. Bulbasaur skeletons. Big-headed…
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