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Marvel’s Spider-Man Teaches You To Think Like Spidey
Many Spider-Man games have done a great job making you feel like everybody’s favorite webslinger, but Insomniac’s latest game takes it even further by encouraging you to think like him, too. Swinging on webs is crucial to any Spider-Man game, and it’s also a big reason why Spidey makes for such a great character to…
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We’re playing Into the Breach live on Twitch. On Switch. Heather’s co-piloting with me too. Join us in chat!
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Death’s Gambit Demands Aggression, And I Love It
Death’s Gambit is a new action RPG that throws elements from Dark Souls into a gorgeous 2D world. It has light platforming, rewarding exploration and a ton of challenging fights where even low level enemies can mop the floor with you. Your character starts the story recovering from battle, barely breathing, and finds themselves face…
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Tetris Effect Is The Game I’ve Always Dreamed Of
Since Tetris Effect’s beautiful reveal trailer was posted last month, I didn’t know that game developers made games for just one person—that person being me. As a lifelong Tetris player and fan of Tetsuya Mizuguchi, lead creator of psychedelic classics like Rez and Lumines, I was beyond excited to get a chance to get my…
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Fortnite‘s Switch Motion Controls Are Surprisingly Not Terrible
With Fortnite: Battle Royale’s Season 5 update comes one feature that intrigued me a bit more than golf carts and portals. The option to enable motion controls for Switch made me curious to see how a game I’ve grown super familiar with would play. From the bit that I tried, motion controls are more useful…
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It’s Time For Games To Own Their Politics
Art is always going to express a certain point of view because ultimately, whatever form it comes in, art is made by human beings. It’s a responsibility that can sometimes feel weird in big-budget games that don’t double down on the questions they present and treat real life-inspired issues like theme park attractions. One of…
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Lumines Remastered Feels Better Than Ever On Switch
Lumines Remastered takes the puzzle game classic that debuted in 2004 and brings it into 2018 for pretty much every platform out there. What makes Lumines so fun to play is the way it remixes the puzzle format and introduces rhythm game elements. Blocks are comprised of four squares in one of two colors, and…
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CultureThe Games That We’ll Be Playing Forever
I’ve always been fascinated by those games that we return to over and over again. I like to refer to them as “forever games.” They are the ones you’ve either played since you were a child, the ones that feel like favorite movies you know line by line. With new games constantly coming out, it…
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Watch Us Play Mario Tennis Aces
With Mario Tennis Aces coming to the Switch this Friday, I asked our resident tennis aficionado Tim Rogers to play me in a “best of three” series. Mario Tennis Aces introduces an interesting lineup of characters that somehow includes Chain Chomp, cool acrobatic trick shots, and super shots that let you aim exactly where you…
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The Weirdest Things We Found at E3 2018
For those of us who didn’t get a chance to visit Los Angeles for this year’s Electronic 3 Two-Zero-One-Eight, Tim and our wonderful video team on the West Coast have been hard at work providing us with an inside look. That also means a peek at all of the weird stuff E3 has to offer,…
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Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion is live now for Switch. For anyone who enjoyed the original campaign, this one seems to take some of the game’s fun mechanics and turn them into focused Mario-style levels. Play as the new “Agent 8” through 80 in single-player missions and unlock the choice to play as a male or…
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