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OpinionImpressionsBeing The One Human In A World Of Pokémon Is Pretty Cool
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, the enchanting remake of a pair of Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS games coming out this week for the Switch, the human player wakes up in a world populated by talking pocket monsters, reborn as one of their own. Living and working alongside Pokémon as an equal…
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AnimeThe Digimon Adventure Reboot Is Looking Good
Announced back in January with a teaser trailer, Toei Animation has released a short but action-packed trailer for the new Digimon Adventure anime, showing Tai and his partner Agumon in action. It’s good stuff. The new series is a reboot of the Digimon franchise, wiping two decades of animated history to give fans a fresh,…
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CultureOh Great, There’s A New Amnesia Game Coming Out This Fall
It’s been a decade since Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent arrived on the survival horror scene, filling YouTube and Twitch with the screams of terrified streamers. Due out this fall for PlayStation 4 and PC, Amnesia: Rebirth challenges players to stay calm in the face of unimaginable terror. The second sequel to Amnesia: The…
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CultureMicrosoft, Bungie Enact Work-From-Home Policies In Response To Coronavirus [Update: Nintendo, Too]
The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has hit the video game industry in a major way, most notably resulting in the postponement of the Game Developers Conference last week. As a response to the virus spreading to Washington’s King County, Microsoft and Bungie, both of which have offices in the area, have decided to enact work-from-home…
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OpinionIf You Want To See Smash Bros.‘ Wildest Crossovers, Look To The Spirits
Just a few years ago, it would have been nonsense to think we’d see characters like Persona 5‘s protagonist Joker or Terry of Fatal Fury fame playable in Super Smash Bros. But Ultimate has far surpassed what we expect from Nintendo’s massively popular brawler. Look beyond the character select screen, though, and you’ll see that…
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OpinionImpressionsSludge Life Feels Like Playing Hooky From Late Capitalism
One of my favorite Onion articles of all time is titled “Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back.” It was published five years ago, back when I still worked at an office job I hated where I frequently daydreamed of doing exactly as the Onion health experts advised. But where…
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OpinionImpressionsIt’s Literally Just Mowing (And Microtransactions, Ads, And Loot Boxes)
As soon as I heard about the game It’s Literally Just Mowing, I was like, “Hell yeah!” Unfortunately, the game is not literally just mowing. It’s Literally Just Mowing, which arrived on iOS and Google Play last week, has been promoted as being about mowing some lawns, and that’s it. But once I played it,…
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Tips & GuidesWhat Happens To Your Xbox Game Pass And PlayStation Now Downloads Once They Expire
For budget-conscious gamers, there are few better ways to get games than via the games-on-demand services PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass. Each service costs $60 per year or $10 a month and grants access to a vast library of games. Triple-A blockbusters and indie darlings both pop up on these services with some regularity,…
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CultureThe Last Of Us Is Getting An HBO TV Show
Craig Mazin, writer behind the wonderful miniseries Chernobyl, is apparently teaming up with The Last of Us game director Neil Druckmann to adapt the PlayStation zombie thriller into a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will focus on the events of the first game, though The Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s “the…
By Ethan Gach