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‘Would you kindly?’: The illusion of choice in gaming

Making choices in video games is a bit like a cool morris dancer or an ideal candidate for dealing with Brexit – they don’t exist. Even in games that pretend to offer decision after decision to affect your play, the reality is that you have only two choices. You can keep playing or you can turn it off. That’s it. That might sound reductionist, and in many ways it is, but think about it. Developers make a world that they…

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More Thoughts From Me #175: The Switch Will Be Lucky Soon

During E3, most of my attention was on Animal Crossing. Would Nintendo show the new game? Once they did, I couldn’t stop thinking about New Horizons. That said, I did notice that there were other good looking games at E3 too. On Nintendo Indie day, several games jumped out at me. The game I liked the most that day was New Super Lucky’s Tale. And now I want to tell you why I can’t wait to play this game! Super…

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Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior

Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior may remind you of Conan the Barbarian at first glance. That is until the warrior disappears and time travels to the future! In this game, you’ll be hacking and slashing your way around a cyberpunk future. This is a cool looking game, but is it a fun one? Here is my review of Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior for Nintendo Switch! Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior is an action platformer with a heavy emphasis on…

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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Gives Beloved Franchise a Boost

Crash is back and ready to go for a spin, as Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is now available for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Keep your eye out as the game’s Grand Prix will kick off on July 3rd with free downloadable seasonal content for anyone who has purchased the game, including a new themed track each season, new characters, karts and customizations that can be earned in online play.Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled has been built from the ground up and is designed to remaster the original Crash Team Racing game by bringing back the characters, karts, ...

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Creative SXFI AIR

What makes the Creative SXFI AIR unique?

Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around the latest in audio technology to come from Creative, the SXFI AIR headphones. In fact, they even won 15 Best of CES awards for 2019. But what is it about Creative’s SXFI AIR that makes it so unique and worthy of all this attention?  The term that is being used to describe the edge that the Super X-Fi AIR has over its competitors is called Holographic Audio. While hearing this phrase for the first time might conjure images of Star Trek-ian technology, Holographic Audio, when broken down to its simplest form, is the ...

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The Original Devil May Cry To Launch On Switch Next Week

The first Devil May Cry is coming to the Nintendo Switch next week. We have the details below. The first Devil May Cry is coming to the Nintendo Switch eshop on June 25th. The game will cost $19.99. $19.99 is a much better price for this game than the Resident Evil games, which were $29.99. As I said in a previous article, I’m a fan of the first Devil May Cry. Its so much fun! I hope many people buy…

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Press Release: ‘BLOODSTAINED: RITUAL OF THE NIGHT’ AVAILABLE BEGINNING TODAY WORLDWIDE

Koji Igarashi’s gothic side-scrolling action RPG Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, from developer ArtPlay and global publisher 505 Games, is available beginning today digitally and at major retail stores worldwide on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with its launch on Nintendo Switch arriving next week.

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Customization in Mario Maker 2 Unlike Anything We’ve Seen

With only a few weeks to go before the launch of Mario Maker 2, Nintendo Treehouse was out in full force at E3 2019 putting the game on display. With three, 30 minute sessions of new game play, there was tons of great content for fans to digest. Most notably, in my opinion, was the amount of customization available just in location and environment changes. The original Mario Maker provided a number of different Mario game backdrops for you to…

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Legend of the Tetrarchs

Legend of the Tetrarchs is a turn-based rpg from KEMCO for the Nintendo Switch. Its graphics will remind you of an SNES game and so will its gameplay. But is Legend of the Tetrachs worth playing? Here is my review of Legend of the Tetrarchs! Legend of the Tetrarchs is a very old school type of rpg. If you like rpgs with random battles and a turn based battle system, then you’ll want to check out this game. The battle…

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More Thoughts From Me Special Edition: Focused On New Horizons

Animal Crossing New Horizons was my favorite game of E3 2019. I knew that if Nintendo showed an Animal Crossing, it would be my favorite game of the show. Nintendo did not let me down. Well, ok, they let me down a little. I am not happy with that March 20, 2020 release date. But putting that aside, I loved the trailer for this game and the Treehouse Live segment. I also ate up every piece of information that came…

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