Gita Jackson

A Video Game About Choosing The Right Greeting Card

In From Ivan, choosing the right greeting card could change your life. When I’m stuck in the greeting card isle of a pharmacy, I tend to freeze up. I know that my choice of card isn’t going to make or break my relationship with another person, but I still want to choose the right one.…

Sims 4 Fans Are Mad About Snow

Sims fans are excited as hell for the upcoming Seasons expansion pack. It’s been long awaited, given that every game since The Sims 2 has eventually gotten it, and it has always been a fan favorite. Players have one big problem with what they’re seeing in previews, though: the depth of the snow. The Seasons…

Overwatch Fans Are Swooning Over Symmetra’s New Voice Lines

Symmetra’s rework has been blowing Overwatch players’ minds. For some fans, their favorite part are her new voice lines. Today, numerous changes to Symmetra went live on PTR, including her new ultimate. This attack will create an enormous shield that cuts across the map, lasts for 15 seconds, and has 5,000 HP. It’s totally wild.…

No Man’s Sky Players Are Volunteering To Be Space Cops

As No Man’s Sky players gear up for Next, the big update coming in July, they’re readying their communities to welcome new players. For some, that means making new shareable farms and laying out community guidelines. For others, it means creating an intergalactic police force. Next claims it will bring true multiplayer to No Man’s…

Pushing A Pull Door, And Other Ridiculous Tabletop Game Deaths

Last week I asked on Twitter about your dumbest tabletop roleplaying deaths, and boy, did you all deliver. An exciting and terrifying aspect of each new gameplay session for my tabletop games is that I’m just one or two bad dice rolls from completely eating shit. Once, when playing a dragonborn bard, I almost got…

One Unused Pokémon Concept Was Just A Gun

There’s still a lot to sort through in the big leak of a demo for Pokémon Gold and Silver from yesterday. But let’s talk about this early version of Remoraid, who used to look like a gun. In the release version of Gold and Silver, Remoraid is basically just a fish. Remoraid evolves into Octillery,…

Pokémon Quest Is… Fine. It’s Fine.

Pokémon Quest is a cute little RPG that I enjoy playing, but that I feel like I’ll enjoy more once it actually comes to phones in June. On the same day that Nintendo announced Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, they also announced that there’d be a small, “free to start” game available on the Switch’s…

Old  Pokémon Gold And Silver Demo Shows Features That Never Made It

Pokémon Gold and Silver once had a bigger map, many more Pokémon, and even a skateboard, according to a new leak of a pre-release demo for the two 1999 Pokémon games. First shown at the Nintendo Space World Convention in 1997, two years before the games’ release, this demo for what would become Gold and…

In Cultist Simulator, Death Is Only The Beginning

The most fun thing to do in Cultist Simulator is die. Cultist Simulator is a new game about running a cult, interpreted as a virtual card-based board game. There are no instructions for what to do, really, so you begin picking up cards, putting them in different slots, and hoping for the best. Sooner or…

No One Knows If People Eat Pokémon

One question has always haunted me during my years playing Pokémon. If people eat meat in the Pokémon universe, and there are no other animals that players see or interact with but Pokémon, what are they eating? Series director Junichi Masuda says not even he knows. Masuda has worked on every single Pokémon game at…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon On Switch

Last night Nintendo announced Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, two new Pokémon games coming to Switch in November. They may not be what people were expecting or hoping for, but any time there’s new Pokémon games, the internet is gonna freak out. Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are both based on Pokémon Yellow,…

You know that “free to start” Pokémon RPG that was just announced? Well, it’s going to be on the Switch eShop today. I’ll be sitting here refreshing.

New Pokémon Game Announced For Switch, Has Multiplayer & Poké Ball Controller [Update]

Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee are real, and coming to the Switch on November 16, Nintendo announced this evening, confirming previous leaks and rumors. These games will take players all the way back to Kanto region to collect the original 151 Pokémon, and they’ll feel very different than any Pokémon game we’ve seen.…

There’s A New ‘Free-To-Start’ Pokémon Game For Switch [UPDATE]

Pokémon Quest is a cute new Pokémon RPG, where you’ll be able to befriend the pocket monsters on the Switch. Update – 9:53pm: And it’s going to be available on the Switch eShop today. Pokémon Quest is a “free to start” RPG for the Switch, taking place in the new region of Tumblecube Island. In…

DMing A Roleplaying Game Wasn’t As Scary As I Feared

This weekend I DMed my first tabletop RPG. I was really nervous about it, but it was actually way easier than I thought it would be. Our tradition in my Dungeons & Dragons group is whenever someone has a birthday, someone else will run them a one-off in the system of their choice. Our current…

Here’s What Game You Should Be Playing This Weekend

Hey y’all! Riley’s probably off playing The Witcher 3 somewhere already, so I’m taking over for him. Happy three day weekend! This weekend I’m going to be DMing my first tabletop roleplaying game as a treat for my friend’s birthday. We both wanted to play The Sprawl, a cyberpunk themed game, so I volunteered to…

I Overcame My Fear Of Bar Trivia

Although I like quiz and game shows, I’ve never wanted to play trivia games myself. I have a hard time remembering things on the spot, and I get really anxious in high-pressure situations, even silly ones. Last night, I went to a bar down the street for a trivia night, despite my misgivings. We won,…

It Sucks To Be A Mom In God Of War

In God of War, being a mother will end your life, either literally or metaphorically. Much has been written about the game’s depiction of series protagonist Kratos and his journey as a father. The game centers on his strained connection to his son, Atreus. Each major mission is a story beat that takes players through…

The Sims 4 Is Getting Seasons

The Sims 4 will get its own Seasons expansion, a long-running Sims tradition, this June, publisher EA said today. Seasons, which brings spring, summer, fall, and winter to the popular simulation game, has always been one of the most hotly anticipated expansions for The Sims games. The tradition first started with The Sims 2, and…

A Simple Moral Quandary Stumped My D&D Group For Two Hours

My Dungeons & Dragons group is at the midpoint of our campaign, so we’ve been trying to do something new for a few sessions. We’ve had another player take over as DM for a little while. We’ve been telling him how much we want to do more roleplaying, so last night he let us roleplay…