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The classic Super Mario Sunshine is an innovative game, even by today’s standard. It throws away conventional platforming recipes in exchange for a water-based movement and combat system. At times this can be a fun experience that leaves players wanting more; at others, it’s a nightmare full of faulty controls and bad camera angles. For fans of other Super Mario titles, this game often ends up being frustrating due to its non-F....

The ARMS character showcase has come and gone and, as predicted, this bouncy boxer will be great for those who love to camp the ledge. Now that we’ve gotten a look at the upcoming DLC character in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, we have a good idea of what to expect from Min Min on her June 29th release date: zone control, and lots of it. With her excellent reach, projectile-reflecting attack, and good spacing knowledge, Min Min has the potential to be a fiend for players who don’t know how to get in against continuous ranged attacks unscathed....

An unbelievably cool teacher is using Half-Life: Alyx to teach his students mathematics, and it’s making us geriatric members of society pretty jealous that we didn’t have such cool lessons growing up. Released at the beginning of this week, Half-Life: Alyx is Valve Software’s latest ambitious project which, among other things, was aimed at boosting VR gaming up to an all-new level. They presumably wanted to make Alyx a kind of watershed historic moment for gaming, and so far this seems likely to be the case....

Those who are a part of the early access phase of the streaming platform can now play Sega’s latest kart racer. This entry took quite the detour from Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing as it wholly features the Sonic the Hedgehog universe rather than a crossover. Team Sonic Racing, despite missing the likes of Aiai and Amigo, has 15 playable characters that are categorized into three types: Speed, Technique, and Power....

Looking to use and abuse a companion cube in your very own Aperture Science test chamber from the comfort of your own home? Well that dream may become a reality (albeit on a miniature scale). A small team of LEGO fanatics known as Team Jigsaw has created a LEGO set, titled Thinking With Portals!, based upon the world of Portal 2, and submitted it to LEGO Cuusoo. Review and potential production of the set now lies in the hands of gamers and LEGO fans alike....

With the 9th generation of consoles fast approaching, many gamers are excited to see what the new machines are capable of. One of the biggest selling points is 4K gaming – and while this might be seen as old hat by some PC gamers – the increased resolution is one of the many things that console gamers are looking forward to experiencing. The capabilities of the new systems seem fairly similar, so it’s likely that the next battle in the console war will be decided by the games they offer rather than the machines themselves....

The Hoenn region was introduced in Generation 3, and it has many Pokémon that are very powerful within it. However, when fans look beyond powerful creatures in the region such as Salamence and Metagross, they will realize that there are actually a lot of weak Pokémon that were introduced in the Hoenn region as well. A lot of Pokémon introduced in the Hoenn region have single types or don’t have any evolutions in their evolutionary line....

It’s common knowledge that video games and movies don’t always get along. There have been countless movies based off of video games and vice versa. Although sometimes they work, with games like Alien: Isolation and the recent Sonic the Hedgehog movie, more often than not the two just don’t mix. There have been so many movies that have been cursed with awful video game treatments, that this list could go on for ages....

2017 was a transcendent year for multiplayer video games. While the form has always had a place in the hearts of millions of different users, the past year felt like a coming out party for multiplayer on a global stage. While LAN parties have been gone for the better part of a decade now, the image of a group of gamers huddled around networked computer screens has nonetheless remained prevalent in association with the concept of multiplayer titles....

Don’t get me wrong, streaming is great. You can’t complain about the convenience of pulling up a movie without having to leave your bed. But there’s one thing that we’ve lost in our post-rental store age: cool movie covers. Sure, Netflix will display algorithmically designed thumbnails, and trailers for movies play above Redbox kiosks. But gone are the days of the crinkly Disney clamshell or the lenticular image of Jack Frost shifting from a smiling snowman to a Shannon Elizabeth-attacking beast....

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The 2020 League of Legends Spring Split has come and gone. Cloud9 won North America, G2 Esports won Europe’s title, T1 took home the LCK Championship and JD Gaming won the honors in China’s LPL. The split was a wild ride for fans and teams across the globe, from Konstantinos-Napoleon “FORG1VEN” Tzortziou controversially stepping down from FC Schalke 04 to Team Liquid benching Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng, to COVID-19 throwing a giant wrench into it all....

Love it or hate it, one of the things that makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe work is the long term synergy. With Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, over a decade of movies came together to pull off one of the most entertaining spectacles of our time. It’s a universe that, for the most part, feels consistent and it builds on itself as each movie feels like an essential cog in a larger machine....

The Last of Us 2 is widely regarded by critics as of the best games of the PlayStation 4 generation, and for good reason. One of the things praised about The Last of Us 2 so heavily is the game’s combat, and it seems like there is a mechanic that has only been discovered now. With the award-winning game being available for a while now, many would expect fans to have found every hidden mechanic and feature that the game has to offer....

As real-life interviews are available in much shorter supply due to COVID, the video game industry has been getting creative. Rogue One writer Gary Whitta’s talk show Animal Talking, set inside Animal Crossing: New Horizons, interviewed Laura Bailey and Ashley Johnson, the voice actors for Abby and Ellie from The Last of Us 2. Spoiler Warning! Animal Talking broadcasts via a Twitch livestream, with this night’s episode making a big splash when Whitta announced he’d be interviewing Bailey, Johnson, and God of War director Cory Barlog....

Two of the biggest PlayStation exclusives of 2020 have been delayed, as Sony has announced that Iron Man VR and The Last of Us Part II have been delayed indefinitely. As the title suggests, Iron Man VR is an upcoming VR title that puts players in the metal shoes of Tony Stark, as he flies around and blasts enemies with his repulsor rays. The Last of Us Part II is the sequel to one of the most highly-acclaimed video games in modern history, and many fans are expecting it to be one of the last great games of the PlayStation 4’s generation....

It may not be the final appearance of Xur in Destiny 1, but for all intents and purposes it is the last one most players will care about. Destiny 2 launches next Wednesday and with it will come new weekly rituals and a new version of Xur. Still, it’s worth reporting on Xur if only to make sure that his “final appearance” is documented for the Destiny fan base. And who knows, maybe he will sell some exotics that players have been waiting on....

This The Magicians review contains spoilers. The Magicians Season 3 Episode 10 Amazingly, The Magicians this week was able to reframe a compelling side story, the rescue of the fairy slaves, as the main plot while still addressing the more important quest for the sixth key with an enticingly incomplete narrative. Even Penny’s subplot presents some interesting new wrinkles (not unusual for the Traveler) while Margo and Eliot’s stubborn grip on the Fillory throne unfortunately continues to be the weakest storyline....

Baldur’s Gate 3 has had a rather unusual rollout. The announcement that it was launching in Early Access surprised people right from the get-go, which meant the ensuing delay appeared to come from even further out in left field. Its eventual debut suffered from dozens of bugs and stability issues - I personally fell through the map near the end of a gruelling 40-minute boss fight on more than one occasion....

Several months ago, Star Citizen hit yet another milestone in its lengthy production, with crowdfunding for the space-flight sim game from the Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts having officially crossed over the $161 million mark. Funding for the forthcoming title’s will most certainly be valuable to its developer Cloud Imperium Games Corporation, but it looks as if those who have backed the project and have lost faith in it ever coming out will now no longer be able to receive a refund after issuing the studio their money....