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CultureStudy Shows A Distressing Number Of You Eat While Gaming
A recent study from analytics firm Newzoo claims that at least 80 percent of video game fans eat or drink something while they sell turnips in Animal Crossing and demolish demonic hordes in Doom Eternal. Assuming I didn’t already hate gamers, this is all it would take to push me over the edge. Newzoo’s findings,…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Manage All 95,128 Side-Quests In Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
If you know anything about Xenoblade Chronicles, you know it’s 92.7 percent side-quest. Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, the spiffed-up version out tomorrow for Nintendo Switch, is no different. There are enough side-quests in this role-playing game to put Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Fallout 4, and The Witcher 3 to shame. In fact, even if you’re the…
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CultureAmazon’s Crucible Is Looking Like Another Battleborn
Last week, Amazon Games released Crucible, a free-to-play, team-based shooter, to mild excitement. Eight days later, Crucible players are almost nowhere to be found on the (Amazon-owned) Twitch streaming service, a strong sign that the community around the game seems to be already dwindling. Crucible, currently available only for PC, pits players against other players…
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UncategorizedSwitch Isn’t The Best Way To Play Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted
I’m one of those people who can’t do VR. Maybe I haven’t found the right console to play on, or the little balance-regulating nub in my brain is too sensitive, but VR makes me puke. So when Steel Wool Games announced a Switch port of VR game Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted, I was…
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CultureElder Scrolls Online: Greymoor Opening Harkens Back To Skyrim
The next year of The Elder Scrolls Online aims to take players back to “the dark heart of Skyrim” via several expansions set in the icy region. The latest stop on the itinerary, Greymoor, released yesterday for folks on PC and Mac, introducing a new questline, updates to the Vampire skill line, and most importantly, an…
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CultureGeForce Now’s New Opt-In Policy Wins Back At Least One Developer
Winter survival game The Long Dark was removed from Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming platform back in March after its developer said the game had been added without their consent. Now it’s coming back, following changes to the service that make GeForce Now opt-in only. “Back in March I decided to remove The Long Dark from…
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CulturePhantasy Star Online 2’s Microsoft Store Launch Has Been A Mess
Eight years after its original release, scifi MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 finally became available on PC in North America yesterday. The only problem? It came exclusively to the Microsoft Store, leading to all sorts of errors and complications for many players. A lot of the issues seem to be stemming from the fact that…
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CultureToday’s HP announced its new consumer virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2. The headset, available this fall for $600, includes a pair of Valve-designed 2K lenses, four-camera internal tracking, off-the-ear spatial audio, and support for Windows mixed reality. Preorders start *checks watch* now.
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UncategorizedAt long last, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered has a release date: August 27. The game is coming to PS4, Switch, and mobile, and will have cross-play. Fortunately, this time around you won’t need four Game Boy Advances to play co-op although someone will still need to carry that damn pot around.
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OpinionImpressionsXenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition‘s New Chapter Is Light-Hearted Fun
Included in this week’s definitive edition of Xenoblade Chronicles for the Switch is Future Connected, a short playable epilogue. It ties up a dangling plotline and has a lot of fun doing it. Future Connected is not simply more Xenoblade Chronicles, which is good. I just finished playing a couple dozen hours of Xenoblade Chronicles,…
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CultureXbox Series X Backwards Compatible Games Will Support Quick Resume Feature And HDR, Microsoft Says
Microsoft explained some of the ways the Xbox Series X will play older games even better than the hardware they were originally created for in a blog post this morning. “Not only should gamers be able to play all of these games from the past, but they should play better than ever before,” Jason Ronald,…
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