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Pokémon YouTuber Feels Need To Drop Diss Track
A Pokémon YouTuber dropped a diss track against another Pokémon YouTuber, and the weirdest thing about all this is that the track is kinda good. “Verlisify” is a track from Pokémon YouTuber Shofu’s upcoming mixtape, Trap Ketchum. It’s also, kind of, a diss track about the controversial Pokémon YouTuber Verlisify. It’s not exactly Nas’s “Ether,”…
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Dream Daddy, As Told By Steam Reviews
Dream Daddy is the best dad-oriented dating simulation game out on Steam right now, and its Steam users declare, “I’m gay.” Love dads? Like grilling? Into the History Channel? Dream Daddy might just be for you. If that’s not enough, these Steam reviews will run you down the pros and cons of the game, from…
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Pyre: The Kotaku Review
Pyre is a sports game about starting a revolution. In a worse game, that would be a joke, but Pyre takes both its sports and its politics seriously and combines them in an unexpectedly compelling way. This new game is from Supergiant, the small studio behind the lauded Bastion and Transistor games. Their first was…
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One Of Steam’s Top Selling Games Is A Dad Dating Simulator
Dream Daddy is a new dating sim where you play as a father and date other fathers. On the surface, it looks like a light game about hot dads and the dad jokes they make. It is that, but it’s also a sincere look at what it’s like to be a father. My dad is…
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Quiz: How Will You Meet Shigeru Miyamoto?
Could there be anything worse than meeting Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario and Zelda, when you’re completely tanked? Probably not. But if you’re into video games, you’ve probably considered what it’d be like to meet the man himself. Find out how you’ll meet Miyamoto in this quiz.
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Vampires Can Now Date, And Other Funny Sims 4 Patch Notes
The Sims 4 was patched yesterday. Here’s the funniest updates for the game. Vampires can now date. Good! Because, as we know, everyone would bone a vampire and if you say otherwise you are lying. Sims should once again be able to Plan their Wedding Event with a Vampire Sim. Have all the vampires in…
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For Second Time, Composer Files Copyright Claim To Take Down Game [UPDATE]
A copyright claim by a composer with a tendency to attract legal drama has led Steam to remove the game River City Ransom: Underground. The developers are disputing the claim and say they expect the game to be back on Steam at some point in the future. On Friday, July 14th, Steam removed River City…
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Tabletop RPG About Breaking The Rules Has Way Too Many Rules
Misspent Youth is a tabletop RPG about young people fighting against authority. Unfortunately, it has a lot of rules, many of which get in the way of the freedom that serves as its core. Misspent Youth seems like it should be open ended. Two to four players make characters, called Young Offenders, and another plays…
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Nintendo Switch Game About Sheep Seems Horny, Is Actually Sad
This new Nintendo Switch game about sheep is a little bit horny, and also very morbid. When you look at Shephy on the Nintendo Switch eShop, it looks like a cute card game about sheep. And for the most part it is. The goal of the game is to use all the cards in your…
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Look At This Bad Mario Puzzle
Nintendo has released a one thousand piece Mario puzzle, and there’s something wrong with it. Can you guess? More than half the pieces in this box are the same exact color. Has anyone who worked on this actually seen a puzzle before? I’m no puzzle expert, but that seems like a recipe for a bad…
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Nintendo Switch Battery Issue May Not Be As Bad As It Looks
If your Switch battery appears to drain rapidly, it might be an issue with the battery indicator, and not your actual battery. Since launch, some Switch owners have intermittently reported issues with the battery draining rapidly. This recent video from YouTube channel Switch Force shows a couple egregious examples—one person’s battery drains from 100% to…
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SimCity 4 Is Still Great
SimCity 4 is a spreadsheet that will never be balanced, but that’s what makes it so fun, even 14 years after release. Yesterday, an article about SimCity 4’s Network Addon Mod, a comprehensive mod for roads and traffic in SimCity 4, reached the front page of r/Games.”Not only has SimCity 4 survived, it has thrived…
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The Sims 4 Community Is Fighting About Laundry
The Sims 4 has a hard time pleasing its fandom. Whether it’s launching without pools or waiting nearly two years for toddlers, Sims fans often feel like the team isn’t listening to them. Now, The Sims team has left a Stuff Pack up for a community vote. Guess what? Sims fans are still pissed about…
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CultureThe Internet Reacts To Doomfist, Overwatch‘s New Character
Doomfist has only been out on the PTR for half a day, but Overwatch fans are already debating who to ship him with and wondering why he’s yet another character with his titty out. Doomfist is a new offensive character for Overwatch, and one that has been hinted at since the game’s very first trailer.…
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Fans Spend 8 Months Subtitling Ace Attorney Game, Capcom Slaps Them Down [UPDATE]
After spending months translating a Japanese Ace Attorney game on YouTube, two fans had their subtitled videos taken down by Capcom. UPDATE 11:14, July 12th: The videos are now back up on YouTube Dai Gyakuten Saiban is an Ace Attorney spin-off starring an ancestor of Phoenix Wright in feudal Japan that has not been released…
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Solve Puzzles (And Sometimes Crime) In Picross Dating Sim
Picross Makeout League tests your love of picross through puzzle-themed dates. Picross Makeout League is a short visual novel about a group of superheroes called the Puzzle League, who are all themed after various kinds of puzzles. You play as Picross Girl, whose superpower is to be really good at picross, a puzzle in which…
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