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Review: Great Conqueror: Rome (Nintendo Switch)

September 22, 2020

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Review by Matt S. For over a decade Chinese developer, EasyTech, has made an art form out of managing the delicate balances required to make a strategy game on mobile devices work. From the World Wars to Napoleon’s campaigns, and all the way back to Three Kingdoms-era China, the company…

Fight Crab and Surrealism: It’s about more than “weird”

September 22, 2020

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Video by Matt S.Fight Crab is one of the finest surrealistic games we’ve seen in quite some time. I love this game (check out my review for more), but in playing it I was reminded of just how narrow our understanding of surrealism is. These days it’s a placeholder to…

Interesting games on itch.io: September 22

September 22, 2020

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List by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…

Microsoft buys Bethesda

September 21, 2020

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News by Matt S. Microsoft, the tech company focused on providing content to consumers the world over, has continued in its quest to emulate Disney’s ability to do so in Hollywood and bring the same strategy to video games by announcing that it has acquired Bethesda for $7.5 billion. Bethesda is…

Arrest of a Stone Buddha: Harvard Let’s Plays

September 21, 2020

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Video by Harvard L. Super Mario 3D All-Stars is a new collection from Nintendo that includes Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Mario Galaxy (1, not 2). The three games in the collection are all excellent, and while the overall package isn’t perfect (check out my review on DDNet for that…

Review: Fight Crab (Nintendo Switch)

September 21, 2020

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Review by Matt S. We already knew what the developer behind Fight Crab was capable of. The previous title, Ace of Seafood, was a manic, truly Dadaist trip of a game, eschewing such mundane considerations as “good gameplay” to instead throw players into something wild, different, and really quite subversive…

Is this the most beautiful Hatsune Miku figure of all time?

September 21, 2020

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News by Matt S. As just about everyone knows by now, I have an extended collection of Hatsune Miku figures – we’re talking dozens of them. It’s my big collection and hobby, and has been for some years now. The quality of these figures has been trending ever-upwards (to go…

The Friday Ten: Remembering the Nintendo 3DS with these ten wonderful experiences

September 18, 2020

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List by Matt S. This week brought with it the sad news that Nintendo has formally ceased production of the 3DS hardware. Of course, the console was already very much legacy at this point and Nintendo has long shifted all its development resources over to the Switch, but the 3DS…

Review: Vampire’s Fall: Origins (Nintendo Switch)

September 18, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Vampire’s Fall: Origins looks like one of those cheap Diablo-like knock-off RPGs that you see pop up from time to time. Gothic theme and isometric perspective? Check. Dour aesthetics and a dank world that must be miserable to live in? Yep. Aside from the shift from…

Review: Wasteland 3 (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 18, 2020

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Review by Matt C. Post-apocalyptic stories in video games are tired, to say the least. Hell, they were already tired a decade ago, and the market saturation hasn’t slowed down in the least since then. That puts Wasteland 3 in a tricky position: it’s the continuation of a series that…

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