Sunday Video Round Up: November 5 – 11

Sorry to disappoint, but there was no big games event this week so the Round Up may not be quite as exciting as last week thanks to Paris Games Show. Still though, there is some really cool stuff waiting for you below the break this week. Here’s a small glimpse! Next week sees the official…

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Super Mario Odyssey’s Open Kingdoms

I’m not what most people would call a fan of “open-world” style games. They were fun back when Assassin’s Creed was still following the adventures of Ezio Auditore, and they were okay when the Inquisitor closed the Breach in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Nowadays though, I’m finding the whole open-world thing more tiring than anything else….

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #34

Gather round, one and all…it’s time to cozy up to some YouTube Highlights! This past week, our channel was simply buzzing with creepy shadow monsters, tanks going BOOM, and the further adventures of everyone’s favorite bird and bear (on the Nintendo 64, that is).  If you’re summarily delighted by what you see here, then be…

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Mass Effect Memories

This month marks Mass Effect’s tenth anniversary! On November 20th, 2007, the game was first released in North America. And what a ride it’s been for fans since then. Join me here as I share some of my memories from each game of the original trilogy. In this first of three posts, I re-examine my…

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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Dated, Gets new Character Trailer!

Nintendo’s latest Nintendo Direct broadcast focused almost exclusively on the upcoming Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and it had plenty of exciting things to say. To kick things off, Xenoblade fans will be excited to hear that the game will be releasing on December 1st. That’s less than a month from now! The new game will host…

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It’s About Time I Played: Mega Man X

The Duck is a frequent latecomer to video games.  Nevertheless, I have been trying with all due diligence to right this wrong by catching up on a lot of the games I had been missing out on, namely those on the SNES and PS1, with a bit of Sly Cooper thrown in.  Future plans include…

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Sunday Video Round Up: October 29 – November 4

It was a big week for the video game world as Paris Games Week arrived and Sony just unleashed a wave of new trailers. With that said, don’t be surprised to find that this edition of the Round Up is a little Sony heavy. So with that said, let’s just jump right into it this week,…

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It Finally Happened. I’m Now A Huge Fan of the Nintendo Switch

It was inevitable, I  suppose. While I’ve never counted myself as a member of the hardcore Nintendo fandom, the fact is that I practically grew up with Nintendo. My first encounter with video games came with The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. My childhood dentist had an NES in his waiting room,…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #33

Happy Friday, one and all! We hope that you’re enjoying as lovely as day as we are. If not, maybe a little video cheer will do the trick. It’s time for us to travel back through our week in videos — and this was one heck of a week! We said good bye to one…

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GameStop Plans for In-Store Video Game Rentals

A few days ago, my attention was stopped short by this headline on Mashable: GameStop basically just turned itself into a Blockbuster for video games Wait…what? Is exactly what I thought. And the article that followed said exactly what the headline promised. It seems GameStop is getting in the rental game…sort of. In short, later…

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