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The Mandalorian Joins Fortnite in New Season

As the widely popular battle royale game moves into its next season, “Fortnite” announces in their trailer for Season 5 that The Mandalorian will become an available skin. In this new season, the main point is of combining the greatest hunters from across reality to hunt across the new map. These new characters include a…

Skyrim: why it’s a masterpiece.

Essentially anyone who likes video games has at the very least heard of, if not played, skyrim. With millions of sales under its belt, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Today, we’ll be taking a look into five reasons why Skyrim is so beloved within the gaming community. Reason One: The Sheer Amount You Can…

VR and Nausea

By Brian Lancaster Disclaimer: I’ve never tried a VR headset, nor do I care about about VR. The closest thing to virtual reality I’ve tried was back in 1995 when I was a kid in a Circuit City trying out a Virtual Boy — some Mario game that was a huge leap backwards and just…

Nintendo Gathers Steam Against Looming Next-Gen Competitors

And honestly, there’s probably no signs of slowing down any time soon. Thanks to Investor Relations Information, we know have Nintendo’s sales numbers for the quarter ending on June 30th. And they are a whopper. Firstly, let me express my pride in Animal Crossing: New Horizons reaching 22.4 million copies sold. This makes it not…

Why Colossal Cave Holds Up

By Brian Lancaster Enter house, get torch, exit house, north, XYZZY. The first text adventure (also known as interactive fiction) to ever be created, was called Colossal Cave Adventure (1977), in which a sentence parser broke down the player’s commands into verbs, direct objects, and indirect objects with a preposition (the subject is always assumed…

Simulating Freedom: Quarantine Gaming Recommendations

After being stuck in quarantine for a few weeks, I found myself craving a very specific type of gaming experience. Games with strict story-telling and linear plots aren’t for me right now; I’m wanting games that simulate a sense of freedom, beauty, and give a lot of choices (bonus points if they’re bright and colorful!).…

What happened at Ubisoft Forward?

Besides everything leaking beforehand. Last night Ubisoft put on their E3 style show called Ubisoft Forward and honestly, it wouldn’t be E3 style without massive leaks. There was nothing they showed that hadn’t either been leaked beforehand or they had previously announced It. It was all exciting and nice to see but Ubisoft has some…

Wednesday was National Video Game Day! How Did Everyone Celebrate?

With everyone stuck at home to help protect themselves and others, there’s no better time to celebrate National Video Game Day. All around the country, people took to their consoles and recollected old memories about gaming and their favorite franchises. A survey lead by Portland PR Firm gathered results from 1000 Americans about some of…

Amazon’s New World delayed to 2021

Amazon Game Studios just announced that their upcoming MMO New World, will be delayed to Spring 2021. This second delay comes after Amazon’s shooter/MOBA hybrid game was “unreleased” last month. Amazon Game Studios can’t seem to catch a break. New World was delayed to August due to the ongoing global pandemic and now Amazon Game…

Crash Bandicoot mobile runner coming soon.

Run Crash, run! Candy Crush developer King has just announced a new game in the Crash Bandicoot franchise. This new auto-runner is in the same vein as other auto-runners like Subway Surfers or the Temple Run games. The story is nice and simple. Dr. Neo Cortex wants to take over the multiverse, Crash and his…

The Sims TBS competition show. What?

Who hasn’t played a Sims game? The life-sim game franchise is a cultural phenomenon. Spanning 20 years and multiple gaming platforms the series is still going strong and now it’s becoming an esport. 12 competitors will play for $100 000 over a 4 part series to impress judges by building unique stories and characters within…

Laura Bailey faces death threats.

Internet cretins threaten voice actress over The Last of Us: Part 2 role. Towards the end of last week voice actress Laura Bailey found herself facing death threats from scorned fans of the divisive Last of Us: Part 2 because of something her character did in the game’s story. No spoilers, of course, but to…

Gaiming Higher

I am a gamer. Many of you are like me but there is only one, me. My games are my best friends. They are my life. I master them as I disallow mastery of my life. I must play harder and shoot straighter than the enemy which is my soulless existence trying to kill me. I must win before I am won.

My game is me, as I am me, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weakness, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and expansions. I will keep my game polished and ready, even as I am nothing of the sort. We will become paradoxical of each other.

Bridging the Generational Divide: Understanding the Importance of D&D Gaming

It started with a inquiry on a bag of dice in a small crown royal bag. Apparently all the cool Dungeons and Dragons ( D&D) gamers carry their dice in those assorted color velour bags with the yellow strings. It sounds very complex nowadays. It is all done virtually at present, due to COVID, and…

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