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Gorgeous Nintendo Games Are Coming to Nvidia Shield, But Not In the US Because Someone Hates Me
If you live in China and own an Nvidia Shield, you can now play great Wii games like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess—no need to own a Switch, a 3DS, or even the console that Twilight Princess originally appeared on. All you need to enjoy one of the best games Nintendo has ever made … Continued
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The New Animal Crossing Stinks
Moderately motion sick and stuck on a Connecticut-bound bus this Thanksgiving Eve, I downloaded the pick-me-up I was certain my brain required: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. And crossed the animals did, over a shaky cellular connection and onto my iPhone as the bus lurched into stop-and-go traffic uptown. With a single thrilling tap I launched … Continued
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Belgian Gaming Commission Decides Battlefront II-Style Loot Boxes Are Gambling, Wants Them Banned
Electronic Art’s Star Wars Battlefront II, one of the biggest video game titles of the year, debuted to disaster in recent weeks after both consumers and the gaming press revolted against the $60 game’s reliance on microtransaction-fueled, pay-to-win loot boxes. At launch, the title prevented players from accessing key features of the game like playing … Continued
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Battlefront II Starts With a Fascinating Premise That Becomes an All-Too Familiar Star Wars Story
Battlefront II, the new video game where you can play as Bossk before you spend a dozen hours unlocking Luke Skywalker, has a slavish dedication to fancy graphics and Star Wars action. Unlike its predecessor, it has a whole new Star Wars story to tell. But while it starts promisingly, it ends up being a … Continued
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Cards Against Humanity Sells Out Promotion to Screw Up Donald Trump’s Border Wall in First Day
Cards Against Humanity, the nerd-beloved party game which asks players to respond to a variety of Mad Lib-style prompts with extremely offensive words and phrases, is famous for promotions like selling unsuspecting fans boxes of literal shit. This year, it’s upping the ante (and paying for goodwill with well-meaning liberals who might otherwise feel bad … Continued
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280-Character Tweets Make Tetris Possible on Twitter
The arrival of the new 280-character limit on Twitter has made the social media network a lot harder to quickly scan and just further proves that words in tweets are useless. So, how should we all use this multi-billion dollar platform now? One imaginative developer has shown us all how to play Tetris, and it … Continued
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The Cancelled Justice League Mortal Could’ve Had A Video Game Tie-In Written by Dwayne McDuffie
When George Miller’s planned 2009 Justice League film was canned by Warner Bros, it went down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in superheroic media. And now we know more about the game that could’ve gone along with it. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about this particular tie-in—some cancelled builds and design … Continued
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Sid Meier’s Starships Puts You in Command of a Small Space Fleet
We all dream of sitting in the captain’s chair, issuing commands and sending our spaceships to explore new worlds or making brilliant tactical maneuvers to destroy the space pirates. Sid Meier’s Starships sets out to fulfill those dreams, and it does succeed, but on a smaller scale than I was hoping for. In Starships, you’re … Continued