Fallout 76: Year Three in Review

In typing up this review of my third year in Fallout 76, one question stalks my mind: is it my last? I know that I won’t be renewing my Fallout 1st sub after it expires next month. I also know that I don’t plan on dedicating a significant portion of my future gaming time to…

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Resonance: The Wastes Where Life Began

Our newest Resonance post covers a song from the recently released Kirby and the Forgotten Land, my new personal favorite game in the Kirby series.  One of the game’s many positives is its awesome soundtrack and subtle world-building, with prime examples of both being found in the desert known as the Wastes Where Life Began…

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Digital Card Games Actually Make Some Sense

Among those that don’t enjoy digital card games, I’ve noticed that some share a certain sentiment. Basically, they question what the point of a digital card game is. The basic argument is that card games only use cards and static images because it’s the only way for the ideas they represent to expressed. That is,…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #259

Up this week: Bastion – we play as “the Kid” in a world gone awry in this classic indie title Not Zangief – it’s the return of our occasional series that’s all about having fun with fighting games. Ori and the Will of the Wisps – we finally get around to playing this sequel to…

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is Flarkin’ Fantastic!

My last attempt at playing a superhero game was with Marvel’s Spider-Man, an excellent game according to one and all. After playing it for a few hours, I concluded that I was far more interested in swinging around New York as the titular friendly neighborhood hero than following Peter Parker’s story. In the moment, superhero…

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Fall Guy’s Special Sonic Stage ‘Bean Hill’ Revealed!

Fall Guys fans have already known for a while that the game will be hosting a special Sonic collaboration next month in honor of Sonic’s 30th birthday. Up to now, the assumption was that this collab would just be the return of the Sonic and Knuckles costumes as well a couple of new ones like…

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Bastion: Surviving in a World Shattered By the Calamity

Bastion follows the story of Kid, who is working to restore the Bastion after the Calamity, an event that destroyed much of the world.  This is one of an abundant number of critically-acclaimed games that I finally got around to playing years after its release.  When playing these sorts of games, there’s always the danger…

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Safety Truly is an Illusion in Minecraft

I’ve been playing Minecraft off and on for a very long time now, and I thought that I had it all figured out by now. As far as I knew, any and all challenge in the vanilla survival mode was contained to the opening couple of day/night cycles and specific places like unexplored caves, the…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #258

Up this week: Not Zangief – it’s the return of our occasional series that’s all about having fun with fighting games. Miitopia – what adventures await us in the world of Miitopia? After playing its demo, we return to the game to find out! Ori and the Will of the Wisps – we finally get around…

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Final Fantasy XIV, Because Free is Free!

Final Fantasy XIV wasn’t supposed to be part of my ongoing effort to try out free MMORPGs. It had been on my mind, because it’s nearly inescapable when reading about such games these days. It’s held in high regard as a cream-of-the-crop title, one of the best and most populated MMOs around. Heck, even in…

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