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Animal Crossing’s July Update Demonstrates Nintendo’s Continued Dedication to the Game

The new update doesn’t add a ton, but it’s a worthwhile reason to revisit the islands we’ve stepped away from.

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Retro Review: Bioshock

Rapture’s collapsing ideological dystopia provides a consistently-engaging backbone for this narrative-focused first person shooter.

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Terraria’s 1.4 Update Brings the Journey to an End

One of Steam’s most content-packed games goes out with a bang.

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Review: A Short Hike

A short hike becomes an at-your-own-pace adventure.

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Opinion

More Than Normalcy, Animal Crossing: New Horizons Offers Sanity & Consistency

Maybe “normal” isn’t what we need right now.

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“Minecraft School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” is the House Cup Winner of Minecraft Adventure Maps

An impressively-crafted fan mod manages to evoke the feeling of old Wizarding World PC games while maintaining its own modern identity.

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Retrospective

A Decade in Gaming

It’s been an entire decade, and games have come a long way. Let’s revisit their journey together.

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Review: The Outer Worlds

Game: The Outer WorldsMade by: Obsidian EntertainmentPublished by: Private DivisionAvailable on: Playstation 4, Windows, Xbox One A limited-length RPG set in the caustically-corporate Halcyon system, The Outer Worlds aims to be Obsidian’s spiritual successor to Fallout: New Vegas.

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Blizzard Kowtows to China

Note: Since writing this story, Blizzard has officially responded to the issue. ExLudico’s response to the response has been added below. In an interview with Taiwanese casters Virtual and Mr. Yee last weekend, the Chinese professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung offered a message of solidarity with the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Speaking in Mandarin, […]

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“I Love You, Colonel Sanders!” is a “Finger Lickin’ Good” Dating Simulator coming to Steam

Meme marketing isn’t a groundbreakingly New concept for advertisers, and advergames go as far back as the movie tie-in titles of the pre-Nintendo era, if not further. Still, if there’s anything I expected to see on Steam’s “coming soon page” early this morning, it wasn’t I Love You Colonel Sanders! Even then, I assumed (naturally, […]