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CultureMorning CheckpointSomeone, Please Help Roald
Hello! This week we use Half-Life to teach math, watch the trailer for next big Animal Crossing update, shock ourselves while we play Smash, learn how Nintendo is helping healthcare workers fight the pandemic and trap poor Roald in a cage made of concrete walls. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week We have reached…
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OpinionImpressionsIron Danger Is A Fantasy Role-Playing Game With Superhot-Style Time Dilation
In Iron Danger you can rewind time whenever you need to in order to save your life and land the killing blow. It’s a cool idea and works well enough in practice, but that fun premise doesn’t stop the rest of Iron Danger from being an otherwise pretty middling isometric role-playing game experience. Out on…
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Tips & GuidesQuick Tricks That Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Too Chill To Tell You About
Face it: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an annoying game. There. I said it. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Yes, you’re the de facto overlord of a private island brimming with adorable talkative animals. On paper, it’s a dream come true. But, in reality, Nintendo’s life simulator is a maddening nightmare. Every minute spent with…
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OpinionImpressionsBorderlands 3’s Latest Expansion Gives The Series Its First Good Boss Fight
Guns, Love, and Tentacles, yesterday’s major update to Borderlands 3, revolves around a gay wedding on an alien planet. While that’s fantastic in its own right, the rest of the expansion is pretty great too, combining fresh aesthetics with a bevy of cool new guns and what is arguably the series’ only good boss fight…
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UncategorizedSuper Mario Bros. 3‘s Angry Sun Gave Me Anxiety
I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo Switch lately. It’s been reminding me how the Angry Sun, an enemy that appears in the fifth level of the game’s Desert Land, provoked terror in me when I was young. Its implementation is a lesson in narrative level design and accomplishing less with more.…
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CultureEngineer Combines Smash Controller With A Taser Because Why Not
Recent advances in virtual reality have done wonders to make video games more immersive than ever. But certain persistent technical limitations still bedevil this developing technology, such as, say, its inability to shock the living hell out of players with agonizing bursts of electric current. It’s a problem. But one enterprising hacker sought to change…
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CultureSony And Microsoft Put Out Vague Statements About How Covid-19 Will Affect Their Games
In a press release on its website, Sony announced that it doesn’t expect the game and network services part of its business to be impacted during the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. At the same time, the company didn’t rule out that things could change in the future. Sony and Microsoft both put…
By Ethan Gach
