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Rain World Broke Me
Every time I think I’m getting close to overcoming the brutal learning curve of Rain World, I die. Initially I blamed myself. I decided to spend my first 30 minutes with Videocult’s long-awaited 2D survival gamestreaming over Facebook. Between my lack of familiarity with the game and Rain World’s aversion to hand-holding of any sort,…
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Stunning Widowmaker Statue Kicks Off Blizzard’s Collectibles Line
After years of licensing third parties to create expensive statues and replicas based on its hit video game properties, Blizzard’s taking high-end collectibles in house.Blizzard Collectibles kicks off with an array of existing pieces, joined by one hell of a rendition of Overwatch’s spidery sniper. While I wait patiently for an overpriced Reinhardt statue, Widowmaker…
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Mass Effect: Andromeda’s First Big Sidequest Is A Let-Down
One of Mass Effect: Andromeda’s earliest sidequests is called “First Murderer,” and it is a total flop. Not long after boarding the Nexus, which is your base of operations, a Turian standing near a plaza will get your attention. She tells you that her husband has been accused of a terrible crime he didn’t commit.…
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Three Shrines I Loved In Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The longer I play Breath of the Wild, the more easily I can deduce which kinds of shrines are going to be absolutely my shit, and which shrines are going to frustrate me. By far my favorite shrines are the ones that deal with launching Link (and other objects) into the air, followed by shrines…
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Method Man does CoD multiplayer. Two new voice packs for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare dropped today for PS4 and Xbox One (with PC coming soon.) $3.99 gets you the dulcet tones of rapper/producer/actor Method Man, while the UK Special Forces pack featuring the voice of Ghost from Modern Warfare 2 is free.
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Japanese Switch Game Ditches Its Wonderful, Terrible Translation
If you want to play the original bad translation of Nintendo Switch game Vroom In The Night Sky, you’d better buy it soon, as the developers are promising a patch that will make it grammatically correct in early April. There ain’t a whole lot on the Switch’s eShop yet, but one of the games you…
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Dating Sim Asks What You Are Doing With Your Life
At first glance, Date (Almost) Anything Simulator is your average dating sim. But where most dating sims are fluffy and comforting, this one is confrontational. There’s nothing about Date (Almost) Anything Simulator that makes it immediately obvious what kind of ride you’re on. It is aggressively normal at the outset, and pretty cliche. You play…
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Report: The Next Call Of Duty Is Call Of Duty: WWII
Eurogamer sources have confirmed that a series of images leaked last week via YouTube are referencing this year’s entry in the long-running series, Call of Duty: WWII. YouTube channel TheFamilyVideoGamers received the images from an anonymous source last week. Both the email received and the images it contained were shown on a video on the…
By Mike Fahey
