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CultureA Video Game Halloween Costume Is Not Appropriate Covid-19 Protection
Halloween costumes always seem like such a rip-off. They’re really only appropriate for one day out of the year and kids usually grow too fast to use them again before the next Halloween rolls around. I don’t blame anyone for trying to find a way to repurpose a costume that would otherwise be gathering dust…
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CultureGameStop Will Reopen Some Stores In The Middle Of A Pandemic
GameStop’s CEO is taking a 50% salary reduction as part of pay cuts across the company as it prepares to re-open stores in some states, the company announced today. “The Company has begun the process of re-opening stores in Italy, Germany, Austria and the states of South Carolina and Georgia and is preparing for the…
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OpinionImpressionsDestiny 2’s Guardian Games Is Another Boring Bounty Fest So Far
Destiny 2’s latest event is a generous but all-too-familiar bounty grind, and I’m not sure I have it in me to stick with it. Revealed last week, Guardian Games is Destiny 2’s spin on the Olympics. Instead of individual players competing to see who’s the best, players of a particular class—Warlock, Titan, or Hunter—pool their…
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CultureDoom Eternal World Record Speedrun Uses Secret Teleporter Room
You never know what you’re going to see in a speedrun. The players working on beating Doom Eternal as quickly as possible, for instance, have found a way to enter a secret developer room that allows them to grab a BFG and complete the Mars Core mission much faster. Doom Eternal is a big, wonderful…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Play Both Questlines In Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s Sprawling Chapter 9
Word on the street is a lot of you are playing Final Fantasy VII Remake, Square Enix’s dramatization of An Inconvenient Truth. And if you are, you know it’s mostly linear. Sure, some sections let you direct Cloud and friends off the main plot for a sojourn into side-quest suburbia. But Final Fantasy VII Remake…
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CultureBroken Valorant Skin Gives Players Better Vision While Scoped
“Pay-to-win” is one of the ugliest phrases in gaming, especially when it comes to a competitive game like Valorant. Players recently discovered that a paid skin in Riot Games’ shooter allows for a wider field of vision while scoped than should be possible with a sniper rifle, leading to player outcry and a promise of…
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CultureNvidia’s Streaming Service Keeps Losing More And More Games
Games like Oxygen Not Included, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, and the entire Arkham series are set to be pulled from GeForce Now on April 24. Nvidia announced the latest round of departures in a blog post last night about the future of its fledgling video game streaming platform. “We’re transitioning as many games to GeForce…
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UncategorizedDragon Ball Z: Kakarot’s first DLC is out April 28 and adds Beerus to the game. The god of destruction will be level 250 but Vegeta and Goku will have their Super Saiyan God forms available. Still, the game’s producer said he’s only beaten the fight one out of every 10 tries.
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
The Root Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’t Wait on Trump, Orders 500,000 Coronavirus Test Kits From South Korea | Jalopnik Let’s Chat About How Weird This Research Boat Is | Gizmodo Apple May Release a Whole Bunch of New (and Some Unusual) Products This Year | Jezebel Trump Announces He’s Temporarily Closing the U.S. to…
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OpinionImpressionsI Need Much More Of Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s Dancing Mini-Game
Don’t leave a rhythm game fan hanging here, Square Enix. The Final Fantasy VII Remake dancing mini-game is too good to be limited to a practice round and one spectacular sequence. Cloud needs to move his body right. As I played through Final Fantasy VII Remake, former (sniff) co-worker Jason Schreier kept asking me where…
By Mike Fahey
