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Personal tidbits on Micheal Mann’s Heat The time of writing is mid-August, 2023. One would consider it as late summer when the heat would wind down. Yet here in the city where miHoyo global headquarters is located, this year’s dog days have seemingly just begun. Taking advise from the formerly behind paywall Waypoint Plus podcast, I am fending off this renewed wave of summer heat by watching Mi...
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I can't speak for duels, but this is probably the 3000th explormer we've featured on Indie Game of the Week. What can I say? I have a type. 3000th Duel , from South Korean studio Neopopcorn, is an explormer-RPG hybrid that, as is almost customary at this point, has a few Souls ian affectations to its mechanics and world design. Dropped into a misty forest with amnesia and an unremovable mask, t...
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Meat Boy, of Super Meat Boy fame, is the latest character to join my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next up is a character from the Deus Ex series.
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An explanation of what we're doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last time, we looked at a batch of so-called video games for the 3DO from 1994 with Soccer Kid, Family Feud, John Madden Football, Jurassic Park Interactive, and Shock Wave . Last we were with the PS1, we sped through May '96 with Hardball 5, Starblade Alpha, Slam 'n' Jam 96 featuring Magic and Kareem, and Skeleton W...
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Welcome to another action-packed installment of the Mega Archive: a chronological exploration of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive as I continue to work on its representation in our Wiki. This Mega Archive pushes us past the halfway point of 1993 and into the latter half of that year, and largely focuses on western games released across July. In fact, it's probably the case that most of the entries m...
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At first blush, Ostrich Island seems like an elaborate joke game. Visually it's kind of a mess, your directives are not clear beyond some open-world tomfoolery, collectibles are called things like "Statuette of Egbert", it's very easy to accidentally take five steps into the water and drown, and the sheer number of minor visual and physics glitches intimates that the developers had too much on...
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This week's addition to my Video Game Hall of Fame is Cortana, who joins Master Chief as the second Halo character to be part of my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will be a character from a humorous game.
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Learning by doing is an approach that focuses on “how to.” It presents how to screw in a light bulb or how to write computer code or how to turn on a virtual machine in a cloud provider. Because it focuses on “how to,” learning by doing effectively train on the inner workings of processes. As a result, it is ineffective for most modern and strategic technology careers. “When it comes to modern...
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Cybersecurity is one of the most important considerations for any business, but many leaders mistakenly think that cybersecurity requires a massive investment or a large team of IP professionals. In reality, data can be effectively protected with simple, proactive steps on the part of the employee and the company. Cybersecurity expert and CEO of White Knight Labs , Greg Hatcher, works with his...
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Hello and welcome to my first entry in my replay through all the kingdom hearts games, FYI there will be spoilers.I am playing though the PS4 version of final mix for anyone wondering. I originally wanted to do this first entry when I was about to seal the traverse town keyhole, but umm, I have finished all the Disney worlds and am getting ready to go to hollow bastion...oops. Part of the reaso...
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Note: The following article contains minor spoilers for Silicon Dreams. Left: Jamie Patton, Right: Danny Adams UK-born Jamie Patton and US expat Danny Adams are Austrian studio, Clockwork Bird. The developer's 2019 cyberpunk management sim, Spinnortality, challenges you to secure wealth and power on a global scale through unscrupulous strategies like propagandising and clandestine corporate dea...
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Double feature Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection and Detonation The poster of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection featured on IMDB announcing its Japanese premiere date of July, 22nd, 2017. Very “action movie franchise” of them to just put the suited up titular character on a poster. The poster of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation featured on IMDB. Featuring the new ensemble of bot...
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Go figure, the game I cover after Tears of the Kingdom is Nintendo’s next big release. I can’t help it. I’m in the bag to play the new games in both series whenever they come out. In Pikmin’s case, that’s only once about every 10 years, so it’s not that tough of a commitment. For a stretch of time, I was more excited about Pikmin 4 than Zelda. Where Zelda first took a subtle approach with its t...
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If there's two things I find scary, it's creepy monsters hiding in the shadows that defy rational explanation and having to think. Unfold Games 's Darq is the rare game that caters to both those fears. The game follows a bald kid (or maybe a teen; it's hard to tell without the hair) as he finds himself stuck in a loop of falling asleep, waking up in some nightmare factory, and then narrowly esc...
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An explanation of what's going on here can be found in the intro post . In the previous post, we took a break to consider what was going on with Namco on the Playstation . Last time with the PS1, we looked at the 1996 PS1 releases of Hardball 5, Starblade Alpha, Slam 'n' Jam featuring Magic and Kareem, and Skeleton Warriors . Last time with the 3DO, we kicked off 1994 by looking at Total Eclips...
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I have been thinking about Kingdom Hearts lately, I know a dangerous prospect but I have just been here thinking about it. I first came across Kingdom Hearts in a commercial for Chain of Memories I watched on Disney Channel, or ABC Family while I was watching power rangers or some other place but I knew the moment I saw that commercial I knew I wanted to play it. A game where I got to hang out...
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Immortals: Fenyx Rising has a horrible name, and I think that plus looking like a Breath of the Wild clone (which it was in some ways like the traversal and the shrines but definitely was not in others) doomed it. The game itself, however, was pretty solid and it was one of the first "9th gen" games I played on my Xbox Series X, though it didn't come out until about a month after launch. For th...
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I got some really nice feedback for my review of Segagaga , so I thought it would be somewhat cool to share some pics of the collector's edition. I bought this in 2007 on eBay for about €150 at the time. I was going through a big importing games from Japan phase, and it's when I bought the vast majority of the Dreamcast games that I own, I even bought a second-hand Japanese Dreamcast. Any quest...
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Virtual reality (VR) has revolutionized how we experience digital content, and it's not limited to entertainment alone. Educational VR games have emerged as powerful tools to enhance learning experiences and engage students in new and exciting ways. We'll delve into the world of educational Meta Quest 2 games , exploring the benefits of learning through VR and discovering some of the top educat...
