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Looking Back On The Promise Of Second Life
A year before World of Warcraft came out, Linden Lab released Second Life, a virtual world that was supposed to be an alternative to this one but became for many a hopeful replacement. Over a decade later it looks archaic and feels almost quaint, but for the hundreds of thousands who still live part-time there,…
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Guy Celebrates Super Mario Odyssey With 148,777 Falling Dominoes
It took him two months to set them all up with different configurations including everyone from Bowser to Pauline because Nintendo has a way of making people do weird things. This isn’t TheDominoKing’s first rodeo by any means. He was at itlast year as well putting together small scenes from Super Mario World with just…
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Unlocking Heroes In Star Wars Battlefront II Could Take A Long Time [Update]
Players who have been spending time with Star Wars Battlefront II pre-release trial period have already started trying to calculate how long it would take to unlock every hero in the game without paying money and the results aren’t pretty. By some estimates, the likes of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader could take close to…
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It’s Impossible To Separate Cuphead From The Era That Inspired It
Cuphead is a beautiful looking game with tight controls and grueling combat that culminates in game unlike many others. But as a throwback to the animation of the early 20th century, it finds its muse in a troubling past it never gets around to actually confronting. There’s a famous saying often attributed to Sigmund Freud…
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This ad for the Nintendo Switch shows how great it would look without bezels. Actual Switches have a thick border around the edge of the screen with plastic underneath. The one advertised by German hypermarket chain Real does not. With smartphones all chasing edge-to-edge displays, it would be great to see Nintendo’s first re-design of…
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Fan-Made Prologue Of The First Witcher Game Looks Amazing
A fan-made mod for The Witcher 3 adds a prologue of the first game’s events remade in the new engine. It’s short but sweet. Not many people have played the first Witcher game, and there’s a reason for that. The look and feel have not aged well at all, especially for anyone trying to revisit…
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Are Coming To Injustice 2
Mortal Kombat studio NetherRealm have announced that joining the previously announced Atom in Injustice 2‘s next DLC will be Enchantress and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ahead of the game’s PC release on November 14, a trailer revealed late yesterday during the Injustice 2 Championship playoffs showed the characters joining Batman, Superman, and the rest…
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For Just $300 You Can Own A Tiny Bat-Signal (Batman Not Included)
A modified spotlight used by the police as a call-to-arms for the Caped Crusader, the Bat-Signal has been shining hope into the skies of Gotham City since 1942. DC Gallery’s $300 replica Bat-Signal propis a a faithful foot-tall replica of the iconic device with one major difference—it works. As cool as the idea of shining…
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There’s A Big Secret In Call of Duty: WWII‘s Zombies Tutorial
Secrets lurk everywhere in the Zombies mode of any given Call of Duty, and the recently-released WWII is no exception. If you’ve been screaming and struggling to survive The Final Reich, you may not have realized the prologue contains a secret room, or that there are six more playable characters to unlock. A secret ‘mystery…
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One Man’s Attempt To Make It Easier To Learn How To Make Video Games
Three years ago, Dan Butchko was working for a Nonprofit when he realized that video games were what he most cared about. Soon, he came upon an idea that turned into a career: help people learn to make games, and then have those people teach the next generation, and so on. That idea is the…
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The Joy Of Twitter Nonsense
On today’s episode of Fave This, I’m joined by special guest Danika Harrod from Waypoint. In between talking about how to be good at Twitter, we discussed the greatest Vine of all time. (Get the MP3 here.) Harrod is Waypoint’s social editor, which means that, among other things, she runs the site’s irreverent Twitter account.…
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A Celebrity Sims Fan Had A Request For Me
Jessica Williams was asking me about Sims mods. Earlier this week, I was chatting with her on the phone about The Sims. The game’s publisher had set up the call to help hype The Sims 4, and the latest expansion, Cats & Dogs. I would be talking to the former Daily Show correspondent and star…
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The South Park Mobile Game Warns You About Its Own Microtransactions
In the spirit of the disclaimer that runs before every episode of the long-running TV show, South Park: Phone Destroyer opens with a special message about microtransactions. Phone Destroyer, now out on iOS and Android, is a card-based combat game in which players summon South Park characters. Ubisoft’s free-to-play, microtransaction-based game launches with a warning…
By Mike Fahey
