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Well, I had a few ideas for this week's Indie Game of the Week that fell through due to seriously needing to upgrade my old PC of mine - Tales of the Neon Sea seemed like a pretty neat adventure game from what little I could play of it, if that helps anyone - so instead entry 276 is going to cover a free fangame about anime Vtubers. My, how far we've fallen. HoloCure: Save the Fans! is based on...
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Tomb Raider's Lara Croft joins the Video Game Hall of Fame, making her the first Square Enix character to do so, as well as the fifth woman (following Zelda, Samus Aran, Jill Valentine, and Chun-Li). Next week's character will be a fighting game favorite.
justiceleaguecanada (Premium member)
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Oh, how I wish any of these buttons did something useful. Yet again, the gaming community has to mull over another batch of seasonal video game sales making a massive dent in their incomes. Steam's Summer Sale is at the forefront of this phenomenon with another flashy minigame and thousands of ridiculous markdowns on big and small games. It's interesting to look at the Steam storefront now and...
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This is the end of the line. With the breadth of Summer Game Fest conferences and demos, I only have so much fuel in me to show you what I think is interesting. For our terminus, I've picked two final showcases: one nice, one nasty, but before we get there, I promised a little surprise. Sonic Frontiers Just when I thought I knew what Sonic was, Sega told us it now includes a Breath of the Wild-...
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What a really, really bizarre future football games appear to have. EA's choosing not to renew the FIFA license and Konami's priorities shifted into a free-to-play model. So Pro Evolution Soccer was dead and, in its place, eFootball arrived with a horrific menu colour scheme and an Unreal Engine effort that just ... completely shat the bed at launch. That was September and since then, path afte...
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You know me, I love my explormer s. The ever-reliable joys of 2D platforming married to a compelling sense of exploration and discovery, where taking notes like a goober is actually encouraged rather than considered overkill. Yet, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing: I never thought I'd get tired of hunting collectibles in 3D platformers, for instance, but even I have to admit that...
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There is a story about games marketing and reporting that would be very easy for me to tell here. One that would say that with publishers' budgets growing like bamboo and the internet acting as the distribution network for ever-more media, the games industry has outgrown the need for a glut of summer showcases. You no longer have to gather people on the ground in one location to have eyeballs o...
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Representing Pokemon, Pikachu is the 25th character to join my Video Game Hall of Fame. Therefore, I think it's safe to say that all eight of the original Smash Bros characters (and Luigi) are now inducted in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character is going to be a well-known female character.
justiceleaguecanada (Premium member)
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Welcome to the new age of dubious. The new age of terror. The new age of streaming gimmick formats because I was tired of being subject to a randomizer wheel and wanted to mix things up. It’s time for THE TOWER OF DUBIOUS HORROR GAMES. More structure, less chaos! More democracy, less transparency! More full playthroughs, less two hour introductions to RPGs! That’s right, it’s up to me to climb,...
arbitrarywater (Premium member)
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One of the more wholesome trends in Indie gaming of late has been handing over the figurative Lakitu camera to those who don't often get to tell their stories in their own words, at least not in the video game medium. I've taken to calling these games "anthropology games" or "folklorist games" in the past: those that come from countries that don't have much of an extant game industry, and have...
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The Game Pass Gambols is my chronicle of attempting to at least sample every game released on Game Pass in 2022. Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Game Type: Throwback beat 'em up in the style of the old Konami TMNT games. Time Played: About 3 hours Completion level: Finished story mode with a friend. Approachability: High. This was based on old arcade games appropriate for...
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Preamble It's ANOTHER blog expressing disappointment over a thing I could never run or accomplish myself! With not-E3 2022 over, it's clear there were winners and losers. Console manufacturers, gaming press publications, and independent developers all put out their best to a smattering of reactions. If you pressed me, I would say Sony's scant forty-minute State of Play was a highlight, and Micr...
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A lot of games get shown at E3 that I don't end up talking about. There's only so many times you can comment, " trailers can be misleading " or "the AAA games industry keeps making the same title", but both those observations apply to this year's Microsoft conference more than most. There was thankfully a little more gameplay in its cocktail of fast-moving sizzle reels, and sure, corporate gian...
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Today, I added an SNK character to my ever-growing Video Game Hall of Fame. Terry becomes SNK's first representative to join the likes of Ryu, Chun-Li, Kazuya, Scorpion, and Ken. Next week's addition will be a Nintendo character.
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Yes, I bought this and had it shipped to me from a St. Louis-area Goodwill store for $5. Spoiler: I hate my dirty basement carpet more than I hated this album. Last year, I made an ironclad commitment in a blog post to rank the Albummers every 13 albums. In March, I made good on that promise, thinking it might be the last time I fulfill it. Fortunately, I turned out to be wrong, and I've receiv...
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There is no shortage of stories about vampires; they all have their own guidelines on what does and does not destroy these creatures who consume human blood to survive. A wooden stake to the heart is a standard method of slaying vampires, as is decapitation. Still, depending on the author, their weaknesses can also include holy symbols, silver, garlic, and sunlight. Yet the Castlevania series b...
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It's hard to believe it was just over a year ago I was last writing one of these "times are 'a-changin'" posts , but as Jeff Gerstmann said on a recent Twitch stream , you could argue that a shake-up had been coming down the pipeline for a while. With three of the Giant Bomb old guard discharged, it was conceivable that the fourth might make their exit relatively soon after. After the departure...
