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Ace Combat 7′s Most Lovable Character Is A Picture Of A Dog
The cutscenes in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown take place in gorgeously rendered environments populated by excellent 3D character models. Also, this static picture of a very good dog. Introduced in a lengthy cutscene leading into the game’s sixth mission, Ace Combat Dog sits stoically by its master’s side. Its tail never wags in excitement.…
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A Game About Slapping An Ass Gave Me Embarrassing Flashbacks
Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair. This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most…
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Telling Lies, the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, will have an all-star cast including Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire), and Angela Sarafyan (Westworld). Annapurna Interactive will publish the game this year.
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Black Ops 4‘s Latest Zombies Update Is A Lurch In The Right Direction
Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode wasn’t a big hit with the community when it arrived last fall, and what’s happened in the months since then hasn’t helped its reputation. But this week’s update is a step in the right direction. In my initial review of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, I professed my frustrations…
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Ace Combat 7 Is A Proper Ace Combat Game
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown delivers the supremely satisfying air combat players crave and the melodramatic narrative we’ve come to expect. There’s nothing quite like shooting down drones while your squadron calls you “murderer.” Ace Combat has been serving the arcade-style dogfight loving public for more than two decades. Since 1995’s Air Combat for the…
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Travis Strikes Again‘s Ending Hints At The Future Of No More Heroes
The final sequences of Travis Strikes Again have some interesting twists for fans of Grasshopper Manufacture’s games who might want to know what’s coming next from Goichi Suda’s studio. If you want to experience them for yourself, read no further! If you’d rather get spoiled, this is for you. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, out…
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Bethesda Says It’s Cracking Down On Cheaters In Fallout 76
Fallout 76 is getting less broken every day. Bethesda said in today’s “Inside the Vault” post that in the last week alone it’s fixed 150 bugs, with more fixes coming in the future. Two problems Bethesda is still working on, it says, are unbalanced end-game weapons and cheating. “We want Fallout 76 to be a…
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There’s A Power Rangers Fighting Game Coming In April
Coming in April from nWay, the developer and publisher of mobile fighter Power Rangers Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid pits rangers and villains old and new against each other in battles across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and eventually PC. nWay’s teamed up with Hasbro and Lionsgate to tap 25 years of…
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Everything We Learned At Today’s Mortal Kombat 11 Reveal
It’s got advanced character customization options, some new fight mechanics. time travel and an MMA fighter as Sonya Blade, but so far, Mortal Kombat 11 looks like more Mortal Kombat with the gore dialed up a notch. Great fountains of blood punctuated our first look at NetherRealm Studios’ latest in action. Mortal Kombat is known…
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Another Wind Waker HD Glitch Is Rewriting The Rules For The Game’s World Records
A trick that lets players finish the third dungeon without collecting the boss key in the Wii U remaster of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, is the latest in a slew of glitch discoveries that have made the game’s speedrunning scene one of the most exciting to follow. Though a new world…
By Ethan Gach