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UncategorizedCROSSNIQ+ is a tile-matching puzzle game set to come to Switch later this year. It’s got an early 2000s bubblegum aesthetic that really pops and a great soundtrack. As for the puzzle elements and competitive play potential, there’s an earlier build of the game on itch.io you can check out.
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UncategorizedChinese EVE‘s Largest Corporation Is Moving To International Servers
Lately, the EVE community is buzzing about a potentially galaxy-shattering invasion. It’s not one designed by the game’s creators or by one of the current power blocs looking to start a new great war. Rather, players from EVE’s dedicated Chinese server, called Serenity, are planning to join the rest of EVE’s single shard environment. While…
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OpinionImpressionsMordhau Is A Clunky Game For Swordplay Nerds That I Can’t Put Down
Mordhau is a medieval multiplayer fighter named after a German sword technique from the Renaissance era in which knights hold their weapons by the blade and try to bash their opponents heads in using the pommel. Like its namesake, Mordhau is slow, awkward, and bloody, but for some reason, I want to keep playing. To…
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UncategorizedMicrosoft has announced the new games coming to Game Pass in May and they start with Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus on May 2. Wargroove also joins that day, followed by Surviving Mars, Black Desert, and Tacoma arriving on May 9. The month ends with Lego Batman 3 on May 16.
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UncategorizedDragon Age: Inquisition Let Me Be A Hot Mess
I think I’m bad at role-playing games. I’m far too impatient, too lusty, too easily distracted. I usually leave a trail of dead party members behind me because I keep missing those five-second side-conversations earlier in the game that somehow butterfly-effect themselves into someone dying. NSFW WARNING: A butt. I lost Lydia somewhere in a…
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UncategorizedValve’s Index VR Headset Ships In June, Full Set Costs $1,000
Following last month’s tease, today Valve officially announced the Valve Index,a “high-fidelity” virtual reality headset with impressive specs, cool new controllers anda $1,000 price tag. The Valve Index headset features a pair of 1440×1600 RGB LCD displays running at 120Hz (with an experimental 144Hz mode.) It also has built-in stereo headphones that are off-the-ear, to…
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UncategorizedJoyfully, willfully, and with patriotic anger I sally forth to get my bucket head rattled in the hot new getting-medieval battle royale shriekathon Mordhau, live on our Twitch channel. I’m going to be too busy fearing cold death to utter my most energetic battle cries, so I’m going to need you to amplify my spirit…
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CultureThe Internet Is Having A Hard Time With The Sonic The Hedgehog Trailer
The Sonic The Hedgehog movie is a blight upon this weary earth. I do my best to say positive. On some days, it works. On other days, the horrific trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog comes out. Lord, please help me. There’s a lot going on. Jim Carrey is devouring the scenery, having what looks like…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryFallout 76’s New Camera Quest Helped Me Fall In Love With The Game’s Broken Beauty
Fallout 76’s world is lonely. Despite being a multiplayer game, it hosts just a couple dozen people around a sprawling map in any session you play. Other Fallout games might have a lot of computer-controlled civilians to chat with. Not this one. All of the non-player characters died long ago, or mutated beyond recognition. This…
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UncategorizedThe Power Rangers Fighting Game Adds Three New Rangers And A Story Mode
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a solid little fighting game in desperate need of strong single-player content and more mighty morphin’ combatants. Developer nWay attends to those needs today in a batch of free downloadable content featuring three new fighters, a full-fledged story mode, voice-overs from series cast members, and more. Battle for…
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UncategorizedKorean Pop Idols’ Fashions Are Exploding In The Sims 4
When I was a teen, I expressed my fandom for the bands I loved by cutting pictures out of magazines and pinning them to my walls. Today, fans of Korean boy bands and girl groups express that love by recreating their outfits for The Sims I got into Korean pop hard during the final few…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Summer Man
A common side effect of obsessively following a single music genre is burnout. My love for K-Pop has waxed and waned over the years, and in the interim, I find substitute genres to keep my ears busy. When I do come back to K-Pop (and I always do), I end up searching for music that…
By Seung Park
