Minecraft Dungeons is the Plainest Dungeon Crawler Ever…And I Love It!

Minecraft Dungeons finally released last week, and it received pretty average scores across the board. After playing it for myself, I can see why. Minecraft Dungeons doesn’t really have any depth to it. There are no character classes, and item upgrading is limited to randomly rolled enchantments. Combat is differentiated mostly by weapon type and…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #155

Up this week: Not Zangief (multiple consoles) – our occasional series that’s all about having fun with fighting games. GRIS (various, 2018-2020) – in a game quite like no other, we take an evocative trip through the manifestations of painful emotions as experienced by a girl names Gris. Yoshi’s Island (SNES, 1995) – it’s up…

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The Sims 4: Love and Loss

This is an ongoing series about my experience playing The Sims 4 for the first time. For other previous posts in the series, click here (part 1), here (part 2), and here (part 3). If Peeps seemed to be something of a mild, computer-addicted introvert in her twenty-somethings, middle-aged Peeps is proving to be something…

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New Gameplay Released for Fairy Tail RPG

Fairy Tail fans got some more gameplay footage from the new Fairy Tail RPG earlier this week. In a pretty lengthy video, the game’s hub city of Crocus was on full display along with more combat scenes and story beats. Speaking of the story, it looks like the Koei Tecmo is taking the opportunity to…

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I’ve Got Big Plans for Quackville

Last week, I wrote about how I finally got a 5-star rating in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.  With that milestone now out of the way, I decided that my next goal was to terraform the island of my dreams.  After watching a whole bunch of island tours on YouTube and general brainstorming, I had a…

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Looking Back at Destiny

“Nothing lasts forever” and “all good things must come to an end.” These two phrases are perhaps the most universal of all the proverbs floating around out there. Time is always progressing, and in no other context is that more apparent than in the world of video games. As we move closer and closer to…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #154

Up this week: Not Zangief (multiple consoles) – our occasional series that’s all about having fun with fighting games. GRIS (various, 2018-2020) – in a game quite like no other, we take an evocative trip through the manifestations of painful emotions as experienced by a girl names Gris. Yoshi’s Island (SNES, 1995) – it’s up…

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Fall Guys Shows-Off Customization Options

Mediatonic has released a new developer diary for their upcoming party title: Fall Guys. If you haven’t heard of the game before, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a party game made in the mold of a game show like Wipeout or Takeshi’s Castle (the better showout of the two). Players take control one out of…

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Quackville is Now a 5-Star Island!

I’ve done it, folks!  I finally achieved that coveted 5-star rating for my island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons!  It took a lot of work…a lot of visits to Isabelle to see what she wanted me to do next.  And boy…does my island look awful!