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Praise The Sun, It’s A Dark Souls Amiibo
No really, praise the sun. It’s what the Solaire of Astora amiibo does. Due out on May 25 alongside Dark Souls Remastered, tapping the Solaire of Astora amiibo to your Nintendo Switch while playing the game will cause your character to perform the iconic gesture. I don’t know if that’s all it does—it’s all the…
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The Original Luigi’s Mansion Is Coming To 3DS In 2018
GameCube launch game Luigi’s Mansion is coming to 3DS in 2018, Nintendo said during a Nintendo Direct today. Nintendo says the game will have “an updated look and new features, like a map that displays on the bottom screen and a boss rush mode.” Luigi’s Mansion got a long-awaited 3DS sequel in 2013 called Dark…
By Chris Kohler - Uncategorized
Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story is getting a remake for the 3DS some time in 2019. It’ll also include new content Nintendo is calling “Bowser Jr.’s Journey.” Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga got a remake last year which was excellent, but Bowser’s Inside Story was an even better DS game, though 2019 is a…
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UncategorizedMy Very Realistic Suggestions For Making The Chrono Trigger PC Port Better
Square Enix suddenly released Chrono Trigger on Steam last week. Several seconds later, fans around the world discovered it was a port of the mobile version of the game. I, too, was disappointed. I made this video with some suggestions on how they could make it better. The port currently sits at a “Mostly Negative”…
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UncategorizedReport: Russia Tried To Mess With The 2016 Election Using A Bad Video Game
“Hilltendo” was a flash-based platformer game aimed at smearing Hillary Clinton days before the 2016 election, according to a new CNN report. While it’s hard to gauge how effective it was, it certainly speaks volumes about the bizarre lengths Russian agents may have gone to in trying to influence American politics. As if developed with…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Lord of the Rings Fanfiction Did What the Books Couldn’t
In 2001, when the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, no one anticipated how big a hit the cinematic adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s books would be. These movies exploded. Some people loved the lore. Some were into Peter Jackson’s directing. And some simply thought that Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen and Orlando…
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UncategorizedCrab Battles Get Turned Into A Real Video Game
Here we see two crabs fighting each other with a sword in each claw. Video games truly are the best. In-development video game Kani no Kenka, or simply FightCrab, is the latest in a series of aquatic battle simulators from Japanese independent developer Nussoft. Rather than the party-based strategy action of Ace of Seafood,available on…
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The PS4’s “5.50” firmware update hit today adding some new features as well as supersampling. What the hell is that you might be asking? Basically, supersampling allows you to downscale 4K output to whatever type of TV you’re using, so even if you don’t have a 4K TV the image will still look much better
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UncategorizedWhen Old-Timey Mobsters Fight Zombies, Everybody Wins
Old-timey mobster Vinnie Cannoli returns for another round of zombie slaying in Crazy Monkey Studios’ Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2. Thefirst game is an excellent tribute to the old school run-and-gun arcade shooter. The sequel, with its 360 degree shooting, double-jumping and dual-gun action? It’s friggin’ awesome. When we last saw Guns, Gore and Cannoli’s…
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EsportsIf StarCraft Is Dead, No One Told Scarlett
StarCraft is reportedly dead, though for a corpse the exact time and cause of death are proving difficult to pin down. It’s possible that the StarCraft: Brood War match-fixing scandal of 2010 killed the pioneering real time strategy game a few months before the sequel was even released, but by then it may have already…
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