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Doki Doki Literature Club, As Told By Steam Reviews
Doki Doki Literature Club was a surprise hit last year. According to Steam reviews, you should play it if you like big anime tiddies and giving yourself emotional pain. I really liked the way Doki Doki Literature Club got under my skin. Despite its pleasant, moe-tinged veneer, it’s not just a scary-ass game, it also contains…
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Style Savvy: Styling Star: The Kotaku Review
The best thing about the newest Style Savvy isn’t the cute outfits or the glamorous fantasy. It’s that it makes you feel good about helping people. Style Savvy is a series of games about running a boutique. In them, you have to stock a store and then sell clothing to customers. It’s your responsibility to…
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In Style Savvy, ‘Basic’ Is Actually Very Cute
Style Savvy has about a dozen brands, each representing a different style. You can dress like a rocker, in psychedelic vintage clothes, or in elegant gothic lolita frills and lace. Unexpectedly, my favorite brand in Style Savvy: Styling Star is Basic U, which sells clothes that are basic. In previous games, the basic style was…
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In Black Mirror, Dating Is Awful But Not Hopeless
Black Mirror’s best episode of season four is, again, a love story. Season three’s standout, “San Junipero,” maybe the series’ first happy episode, was a sweet love story about two women falling for each other in a simulated world. This season’s fourth episode, “Hang The DJ,” has the setup of a good dystopian young adult…
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The Year In Video Game Fashion, 2017
Video game fashion goes through trends just like fashion in the real world. In 2017, games let us pretend we were at a fashion week, express our true selves, and do somersaults in six inch heels and a miniskirt. Splatoon 2 Is A Street Fashion Zine Of all the games of 2017, Splatoon 2 might…
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How To Get Into Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a two dimensional fortress-building game about dwarves, which often breaks in fascinating ways. Nothing about it should work, but somehow it comes together. I wish everyone could experience Dwarf Fortress, but it’s a punishing game for people who like to be frustrated. Dwarf Fortress isn’t for everyone. It’s a game about losing.…
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Nintendo’s Newest 3DS Game Features A Nerdy YouTuber
In the latest Style Savvy game, which dropped Christmas Day, you’re not just a boutique owner but also a stylist who nurtures budding pop stars’ hopes and dreams. One of these singers is Alinatron, a nerdy YouTuber, and she is delightful. Style Savvy: Styling Star doesn’t quite have YouTube—its equivalent is MewTube, where you can…
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Quiz: Which Game Will Your Aunt Think You Wanted This Christmas?
Hey sweetheart! It’s me, your aunt. I know it’s last minute but I wanted to get you a game for Christmas, because I know you love video games. Can you explain to me which one you want? I know we don’t see each other much, but I do remember you like games! I don’t know…
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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’s Gardening Is Cute, If You Have The Time
Gardening has come to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp today, and with it more things to spend Leaf Tickets on. I never really got into planting flowers in the console versions of Animal Crossing. I’d always forget where I planted them, not water them, and then they’d wilt and die. Pocket Camp makes gardening easier. Instead…
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The Year In Ships, 2017
In fandom, the rules of fiction don’t matter, or at least matter a lot less. This is what allows shipping to exist, where fans write fanfiction, draw fanart, and get enthusiastic by a couple that may never happen in the game’s canon. Fandoms for video games this year were enthusiastic and loud, and sometimes cropped…
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The Story Of Dwarf Fortress’ Loneliest Necromancer
Dwarf Fortress is an incredible, absurd game. Sometimes the funniest parts of your game are buried somewhere you’ll never see. Last night, for example, I discovered a tale of the world’s loneliest dwarf necromancer. When you start a game of Dwarf Fortress, you must first create a new world. You set parameters like how big…
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Woohooing In The Sims Is Actually Horrifying
Woohoo is what sims do in The Sims series instead of having sex. But what is it? You will regret asking that question. In the first Sims game, woohoo didn’t exist. Instead, in a later expansion pack, you could place a vibrating bed, have both sims relax on it, and then have them “play” on…
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Bizarre Hidden Object Game Coming To Switch
This week, the Switch is getting a port of Hidden My Game By Mom, the most surreal hidden object game you’ll ever play. Mom Hid My Game for Switch was known as Hidden My Game By Mom on phones. It’s pretty simple. Your mom hid your Nintendo DS, and you need to solve some puzzles…
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No Man’s Sky Players Had Their First War And It Killed An Entire Civilization
No Man’s Sky fans can’t exactly play with each other, but they still like to come together to celebrate their communities. Somehow, a new player-created holiday became a story about conflict, betrayal and the disappearance of an entire civilization. No Man’s Sky players have created their own civilizations with their own cultures and governments, many…
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Some Of The Best Anime References In Hip Hop
As I listened to pop singer Charli XCX’s latest mixtape, I perked up at rapper Mykki Blanco’s verse on “Fembot,” a song about being a horny robot. Blanco opened by describing herself as a “ghost in the shell and a beast in the sheets,” and goes on to reference going super saiyan in a feature…
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Post Malone Gets Baked, Streams Call Of Duty On Twitch
Rapper Post Malone has has a pretty good year. Not only did he top Billboard’s Hot 100 with his song “rockstar,” he apparently has a bright future as a Twitch streamer. Post Malone had some success with his single “White Iverson” in 2015, but this year his career has really taken off. He’s dropped two…
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CultureThe Internet Reacts To Hanzo’s New Skin
Overwatch fandom is split on Hanzo’s new skin. Love it or hate it, they can’t stop drawing it and talking about it. Hanzo’s new skin for the Overwatch winter event was inspired by a single panel in last year’s holiday comic, “Reflections.” Some fans were hoping it’d be closer to that illustration, or at least…
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New Clam Blitz Mode Highlights The Best and Worst of Splatoon 2
While Clam Blitz is very fun, it’s hampered by Splatoon 2‘s glaring flaws. Clam Blitz, which was added to Splatoon 2 today, isn’t complicated to play, but is confusing to explain. In this game mode, you have to pick up golden clams that are scattered across the map and put them in the enemy’s basket.…
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Battlegrounds, Please Fix This Awful Bra
Battlegrounds recently changed their female underwear texture to remove visible labia, and that’s great. I still have one gripe though. The bra texture in Battlegrounds is just egregiously, obviously bad. If you play Battlegrounds, you will see the underwear textures at least once. You start off in your underwear by default, but most players equip…
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Kittens Will No Longer Get Stuck In Cat Condos, And Other Sims 4 Patch Notes
The Sims 4 has a new patch, and that means more hilarious patch notes. Here are some of the best ones. Getting a preventative shot for your pet will no longer put them in a state of perpetual fear. Sims in the painter career will no longer be able to sell the paintings directly from…
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