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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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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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“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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E3 2019: Hit That Subscribe Button

We’re at the end of a fairly uneventful E3. The Japanese giants present may have managed to save the show a few days in, but their Western competitors stayed safer, bringing cinematics and a few reveals, but only light gameplay. Word on the street is all the big boys are huddling up and preparing for […]

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Is the Epic Games Store a Consumer-Friendly Response to Steam?

In late 2018, after an amazingly successful year for their flagship title, Fortnite, Epic Games announced it would put some of its newly-acquired capital toward supercharging its proprietary games launcher. Previously a platform for first-party titles exclusively, the freshly-renamed Epic Games Store is now one of the top contenders in a party looking to dethrone […]

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With “Black Ops 4” Beta, Treyarch showcases a reinvented Call of Duty

Inspiration from competitors will define Treyarch’s next Call of Duty title. On Friday, developer Treyarch launched a weekend-long open multiplayer beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the latest title in its titanic series. Sitting on a history of slight changes to an overall-stable FPS experience, Black Ops 4 takes a few more risks than usual. […]

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Steam Releases List of Most Played and Purchased Games of 2018

Yesterday, Steam revealed its lists of the year’s most played and purchased games. Broken up by magnitude (Valve uses “platinum”, “gold”, “silver”, and “bronze”), the lists give us some idea of what games have found the most success on Steam this year, but games within each magnitudinal category are presented in a random order that […]

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E3 2018: Bethesda Showcase Recap

In the weeks leading up to this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, Bethesda put forth effort in hyping fans up with promises of ‘more than one surprise’, as well as updates on their favorite games and franchises. We streamed Bethesda’s conference, but if you couldn’t catch our reactions live, or you’re looking for a more detailed […]

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Bethesda Teases “Fallout 76”

Two weeks ahead of E3 and at the tail-end of a multi-hour stream, Bethesda dropped a teaser trailer for a new Fallout title, Fallout 76. Here’s what we know so far.