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The Dance Dance Revolution World Championship Looks Like Hard Work
The Dance Dance Revolution world championships are next weekend, hosted in Japan by KONAMI. This weekend, at the qualifiers, dancers from across the globe are burning through calories like it’s the end of Footloose I had a friend who was really good at Dance Dance Revolution. I couldn’t compete with her. My technique, polished through…
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Fortnite YouTuber Dabs For 10 Hours, Makes $2000
Luke TheNotable streamed the entirety of Fortnite’s “Infinite Dab” animation, which runs for ten hours. For his efforts, he got $2000 from donations, 6000 new subscribers, a pair of broken headphones (from dabbing too hard), and a whole lot of dab-induced shoulder pain. Back in December, Fortnite’s notes for their 7.10 patch included this little…
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Awesome Games Done Quick Ends with $2.3 Million Raised For Charity
On Friday, the charity speedrunning stream hit one million dollars for US charity Prevent Cancer Foundation. Late on Saturday night, it hit two million dollars, and the crowd went wild Donations hit the 2mil mark during a thrilling Super Mario Odyssey speedrun. As the run time ticked towards three hours, Twitch chat began a $5…
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Real-Time Syrian Refugee Game Bury Me, My Love Is Now On Switch And You Should Play It
Over the last few years, there have been a few mobile games that use the cell phone interface itself as a way to play. There’s boy-flirt-extravaganza Mystic Messenger, which takes place within an instant messaging app. You could try to unlock a stranger’s phone in A Normal Lost Phone, and go through the emails, texts…
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Luigi’s Mansion Speedrun Makes Me Excited For Luigi’s Mansion 3
I owned Luigi’s Mansion on GameCube when I was slightly smaller than I am now. My younger brother and I would try to get through its spooky, ghost-filled levels together, sharing tips and wasting our parents’ printer ink on 30-page guides off the internet. But really, Luigi’s Mansion owned me I’ve never been great with…
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Heartbreaking Divinity: Original Sin 2 Speedrun Highlights How Luck Is A Speedrunner’s Nemesis
Awesome Games Done Quick is the speedrunning equivalent of the Olympics, only more frequent and featuring way more pizza. But what happens when a speedrunner has the equivalent of a loose shoelace? Semanari was due to complete a tricky Divinity: Original Sin 2 speedrun on Friday, January 11, with an estimated time of 19 minutes…
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10,000 Elite Dangerous Players Start An 18-Week Journey Across The Galaxy
Four years ago, in space-exploration game Elite Dangerous, an explorer by the name of Erimus set out on a journey he called “Distant Suns.” This trip took three months and over 130,000 light years to complete, and exists now as a 13-part travel log on YouTube. Tomorrow, January 13, Erimus will lead the expedition “Distant…
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Destiny 2‘s Impossible Puzzle Might Have Been Broken All Along
Destiny 2 players have finally completed the seventh and final Niobe Labs puzzle—you know, the one that was apparently so hard that Bungie had to give up hope of anyone solving it. This success is not the result of any last-minute Sherlockian breakthroughs, however, but because the puzzle itself was broken. Late on Friday, January…
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The Formerly Terrible Pichu Is Now A Tiny Ball Of Death
At first glance, Pichu doesn’t come across as a super strong Super Smash Bros. character. The diminutive Pokémon is cute as a button, sure, but its weaknesses meant it was always overshadowed by its fellow cast members in Super Smash Bros. Melee. But that all changed with the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Multiple…
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RollerCoaster Tycoon Ride From Hell Lasts 12 Years
The point of RollerCoaster Tycoon is to create a successful theme park. Usually that involves keeping people coming back with fun attractions, like elaborate roller coasters, and charging high margins on food and drinks. One player decided to throw that logic out the window and dedicate most of their park to a truly nightmarish abomination:…
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Bowser Jr. Finally Gets His Due
When Bowser Jr. came onto the scene in 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine, the first words out of his mouth were “Leave my mama alone!” He’d kidnapped Princess Peach because Bowser had told him she was his mother and was trying to stop Mario from rescuing her. After Mario eventually defeated him, Bowser Jr. confessed to…
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Actress Minnie Driver said on Twitter that she was once fired from doing voice work on Gears of War because she couldn’t shout loudly enough. “Only job I was ever fired from…never liked the game tbh,” she said, to which Gears of War series producer Rod Fergusson responded “Sorry about that.”
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The 7 Most Essential Sims 4 Gameplay Mods
The Sims 4 is a great game, in part because of its thriving mod community. You can use mods to give your Sims eyelashes, expand your makeup options, or get luxurious new furniture. You can even alter the fundamental gameplay, and here are the 7 essential mods that will let you do just that. I…
By Gita Jackson
