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Command And Conquer Mobile Game Would Be Great If It Weren’t Pay-To-Win
Command and Conquer: Rivals, out yesterday, takes the beloved real-time strategy series into the controversial world of free-to-play mobile games, which tend to be fueled by loot boxes and microtransactions. This game is, too, and it goes to absolutely zero lengths to mask that. Worst of all, the game’s still fun despite those things, making…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Competitor Lands Sick Combo Just Before Ultimate Drops
Although most players are eagerly anticipating the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later this week, tournaments are still being run for the previous installment during what many consider to be its twilight hour. And lucky us, because, otherwise, we wouldn’t have seen this cool moment from an event last weekend where low tier hero…
By Ian Walker - Uncategorized
This Official Star Wars Keycap Set Leans Towards The Dark Side
I find your lack of custom keycaps disturbing? No. These are the keycaps you’re looking for? Only Imperial Stormtroopers type so precise? I’ll figure this out. In the meantime, the first officially-licensed Star Wars keycap set is going up for sale. NovelKeys, home of the giant mechanical keyboard switch, has teamed up with Disney and…
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UncategorizedRapper 2 Milly Sues Epic Games For Stealing His Dance
Rapper 2 Milly is suing the maker of Fortnite, Epic Games, for selling his signature “Milly Rock” dance as an emote called “Swipe It.” Pierce Bainbridge, the law firm representing 2 Milly, filed the complaint in the Central District Court of California today, accusing Epic of, among other things, copyright infringement, and exploiting African American…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Spacewar! Creators Didn’t Know They Were Making History
Long after I’m dead, if the country remains unscathed, there will be a recording with me on it in the Smithsonian. On it, I will be heard asking the developers of Spacewar! if they had any idea what the video game industry was going to become when they made their game in 1962. The recording…
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I’ll Finish Just Cause 4 Once The Balloon Grapple Stops Being Hilarious
How am I supposed to focus on freeing Just Cause 4‘s fictional South American country of Solis from the grip of the Black Hand mercenary syndicate when the aftermath of every skirmish looks like a birthday party gone horribly wrong? Just Cause 4 is an action adventure game with a story and everything, but the…
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