Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet may have had an iffy launch, but there’s no denying that people are playing the game. Its first DLC, The Hidden Treasures of Area Zero Part 1: The Teal Mask, was released in September. Part 2: The Indigo Disk was always set to launch before…
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Battle Champs is a F2P RTS game that was available for four years (from 2015 to 2019). In Battle Champs, players built and strengthened bases, then teamed up with others to attack enemy fortifications. So why am I talking about this dead game? It was actually the predecessor to casual…
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Most annual sporting properties have a reputation for each year’s edition offering little more than a new roster over the top of the base game. Sometimes that’s fair. Often it is not. Football Manager is the one series where “roster update” is actually one of the critical features that you…
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Oh I wish the voice actors working on Persona 5 Tactica knew how to pronounce “Marie” properly. Marie is the antagonist of the game (or at least the first chunk of it), and every time any of the cast pronounces her name I want to take a cheese grater to…
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Subscription services have unfortunately become the norm, often becoming the only way to access specific media. They are also a detriment to the discoverability of art, as Matt wrote in 2022. But let’s be real: subscription services are a necessary evil at this point. If you were to avoid them…
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We constantly make decisions as we play games. These days, these decisions often impact the game in meaningful ways, like with branching narratives and multiple endings. But imagine what would happen if a game keeps track of your decisions and creates a personality profile based off of them, and allows…
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Nintendo’s WarioWare series has represented the company at its whimsical purest since the Game Boy Advance. Players play through hundreds of micro-games, each a few seconds long, in rapid-fire succession. With every minigame being a microcosm of pure and unfiltered creativity, WarioWare has always boasted vivacious energy and charm in…
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If you polled the Star Ocean fan base on which is the finest in this relatively obscure but long-running sci-fi/fantasy series, Star Ocean 2 would pop up quite often, if not in most cases. I would personally argue that Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time is slightly more…
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Silent Hill: Ascension has an interesting concept as it’s not just one thing. It’s part video game, part television series that takes the audience’s choices and applies them directly to what is happening in the story. It’s like a massively multiplayer FMV game, basically. It will be premiering in mere…
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Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade was meant to be out much, much earlier in the year. It had even briefly appeared on some eShop storefronts around the world. Something must have been wrong with it, however, as it was unceremoniously pulled and put back into development for some months.…
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