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OpinionImpressionsBorderlands 3’s Eridium Event Only Highlights How Worthless The Currency Is
We’ve reached the third week of unique Borderlands 3 events, and this time around Gearbox has seen fit to tweak the numbers to make Eridium, a secondary currency that’s much harder to find than regular money, drop more frequently. The only problem is that there’s still very little on which to actually spend these purple…
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OpinionImpressionsOne Month Later, Apple Arcade Is Worth My Five Bucks
It’s been nearly a month since the official September 19 launch of Apple Arcade. With my free 30-day trial of the subscription gaming service on the verge of expiring, I ask myself if I’m getting enough out of it to give Apple five of my hard-earned dollars to keep playing. Having barely made a dent…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Witcher 3 Does The Best It Can On The Switch
How did CD Projekt Red and Saber Interactive get the gorgeous, resource-hungry role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt running on Nintendo’s plucky hybrid handheld? Lots and lots of compromise and a fair amount of blur. The Witcher 3 comes to Switch tomorrow. On the tiny console, the lighting is flat, the textures are rough,…
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OpinionImpressionsThe New Digimon Mobile Game Is More About Bonding Than Battling
It doesn’t take a lot to win a fight in Digimon: ReArise, the latest digital monster game for iOS and Android devices. As long as your party is properly leveled up, the auto-battle function breezes through the turn-based team battles. The real challenge in Digimon: ReArise is collecting, raising, and training an ever-expanding horde of…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Latest Borderlands 3 Event Is A Great Way To See Rare Enemies You Might Have Missed
Borderlands 3 is currently running through a series of week-long events leading up to a big Halloween-themed blowout later this month. While last week’s legendary gear hunt was a bit of a bummer, developer Gearbox’s latest attempt to keep folks interested in their flagship looter shooter gives players the chance to fight some unique enemies…
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OpinionImpressionsWarsaw Is A Tedious Take On Darkest Dungeon
Warsaw, released on Steam last week by Polish developers Pixelated Milk, is a difficult, turn-based dungeon-crawler set in the eponymous capital city at the tail end of World War II. My first few hours with it were spent vacillating between admiration for its unique setting and frustration with its combat and squad-building mechanics. The irritants…
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OpinionImpressionsThere’s A New BurgerTime Game On Switch Today, And It’s Not Bad
Launching today exclusively for the Nintendo Switch, BurgerTime Party gives the Data East arcade classic a cartoon makeover, with burger-building challenges for up to four players. I’ve played a bit of the game and can safely say that dropping insentient food on sentient food never gets old. There’s a reason game makers keep coming back…
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OpinionImpressionsTrine 4 Is A Triumphant Return To Form
Trine and Trine 2 are a pair of gorgeous 2.5D physics-based puzzle platformers. For the third installment, Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power, developer Frozenbyte tried to work full 3D gameplay into the mix, resulting in a shorter, less satisfying game. Trine 4: The Nightmare Price, out October 9 for the PC, PlayStation 4, Switch,…
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OpinionImpressionsIndivisible Is Overwhelming In The Best Way
Fifteen hours into Indivisible, the long-awaited action role-playing game from Skullgirls creator Lab Zero, I’m still meeting new playable characters and discovering new ways to explore its gorgeous 2D world. I’m overwhelmed every time I play, and I love it. First announced in 2015, Indivisible is an action RPG that comes out Tuesday for PC,…
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OpinionImpressionsAdventure Time Creator’s New Card Game Has The Same Appeal As The Show
Card of Darkness has been my go-to phone game for about a week. It’s a tricky little card game, where you pick up cards from a board to fight monsters and traverse through dungeons. While I love the game, what also keeps me coming back are memories of Adventure Time Card of Darkness was made…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Diversity In 80 Days Shocked Me, In A Good Way
80 Days, a game based on Jules Verne’s novel Around The World In 80 Days, is now available on Switch. Revisiting the game has allowed me to see myself and my culture in ways that aren’t always visible to me in video games. I am mixed race, with an Indian mother and a black father.…
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OpinionImpressionsThis Week’s Borderlands 3 Event Isn’t Worth The Time
We’re currently in the midst of a week-long Borderlands 3 event, during which players can expect bosses to drop specific legendary loot with greater frequency. As someone still looking for a decent class mod, this was an exciting prospect for me, but after spending some time farming the bosses in question, I don’t see myself…
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OpinionImpressionsGo Ahead And Do Every ‘Optional’ Tutorial In The Complex New Gundam Battle Game
Bandai Namco’s free-to-play PlayStation 4 mech combat game Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2 came out in North America yesterday. It features fast-paced multiplayer battles on land and in space that players will surely fail at unless they complete every optional tutorial and put in some time in the game’s practice area. I learned this…
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OpinionImpressionsPlaying Ori And The Blind Forest On Switch Is A Little Strange But Brings Back Great Memories
It’s weird seeing the Microsoft Studios logo appear on the screen as I load a game on a Nintendo console. It’s also odd to have see my Xbox Live avatar and Gamertag displayed on my Switch screen. Everything else about about playing Ori and the Blind Forest on the Switch is pretty much perfect. Moon…
By Mike Fahey
