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I’m Commander Shepard, and These are my Favorite Drinks on the Citadel.
The Mass Effect trilogy features a galaxy’s worth of exotic, alien-inhabited locations… with a bar in nearly every port ready and waiting to serve the Commander and her intrepid crew the finest of the milky way’s brain-draining beverages. Now you, too, can pull up an emergency induction port—I mean, a straw—and meet the reaper apocalypse…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battles: When Diablo Meets My Little Pony, Horrible Things Happen
Lar’zak looked on the tent with horror clawing it’s way into his brain. Pony’s corpses littered the grounds around the tent, and those who females who hadn’t been killed suffered a fate worse than death. Fan Fiction author The Red Blade doesn’t pull any punches with his epic multi-part Diablo / My Little Pony crossover,…
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The Dorkly Weekly: The Pokémon Bug Catcher Who Waited
There are Pokémon players that take great pains to make sure they fight every NPC trailer that they cross paths with, but sometimes even the most dedicated fan can overlook the lowly Bug Catcher. The Bug Catcher doesn’t mind. He hasn’t really got anything better to do anyway. He’ll stand out there in his field,…
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UncategorizedIt Was Only A Matter of Time Before They Staged The Hunger Games in Minecraft
The dystopic, autocratic world of The Hunger Games hasn’t really been well-represented in video games just yet. There are ways a traditional game could work, but for the time being the only official version of Panem we’ve got is on Facebook In unofficial representations, however, there’s the wide world of Minecraft, where Hunger Games fans…
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UncategorizedMax Payne Wants You To Stop Indulging In Self-Reflection And Hurry Up Already
If you’re planning on picking up Max Payne 3 when it releases tomorrow, Max will be urging you to hurry the hell up while playing the game. Sometimes it’s to give you clues as to where to go next. Other times he just wants you to get on with it. This is no time to…
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UncategorizedTower of Fortune Puts a Fresh Spin on Retro Role-Playing
Chance has been a huge factor in role-playing games since the earliest days of pen-and-paper games. Normally represented as the roll of a die, Tower of Fortune swaps dice for slots. Is it a winning combination? Yes. Thanks for reading. Crafted by a Rodan and Rin of Game Stew Studio, Tower of Fortune is as…
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UncategorizedYou Can’t Hold This Battlefield 3 Jeep Back From Its Dreams of Being an Airplane
This jeep in Battlefield 3 is special. It won’t listen to reason when you say things like, “But you’re just a Jeep. You were designed for 4-wheeling and hazardous shooting.” And of course the only thing left to do when trapped in a glitched out Jeep is to answer the call of many of our…
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Splinter Cell Studio Head Wants Games to Grow Up
Jade Raymond is currently head of Ubisoft’s Toronto studio, which is hard at work on the next Splinter Cell game. And yet, while she clearly enjoys games as a blockbuster spectacle, Raymond wants games to strive to be more. Speaking with Eurogamer in a lengthy interview, Raymond calls on the industry, her own studio included,…
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