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To anyone who had strict parents that worried too much about video games: Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo sees you. While his friends were logging hours in Call of Duty, he was limited to mastering Wii Sports. Mom preferred “family-oriented”…
(Fear Of Price Increase). When the 3.0 update arrived for Animal Crossing: New Horizons in January, covering it for this here website returned me to a place I thought I’d left behind. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Steam is flooded with all manner of weird and wonderful city-builders these days. Yet few of these newer games have laid their foundations in the true heartland of the genre. If you want to build a vast, modern cityscape with…
The first part of Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai only told half the story of Edo period swordsman Musashi Miyamoto’s (voiced by SungWon Cho in English and Naoya Uchida in Japanese) resurrection from the dead through an experimental cloning procedure. When…
Few games manage to be as charming and life-consuming as Stardew Valley, the open-ended farming sim where you grow seasonal crops, raise animals, and woo the townsfolk by repeatedly offering them gold bars and beer. Whether you’re shopping for a…
In Faces of Death, filmmakers Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline), update the original cult classic “shockumentary” for the Instagram Reels era. John Alan Schwartz’s 1978 Faces of Death presents (mostly) fake footage of…
It always bugged me that you couldn’t save the scientists in Half-Life. You’d be trundling through some grey corridor in the bowels of Black Mesa, with one or two or maybe even three lab coat wearing boffins behind you, when…
The anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelierhad an impressive two-part premiere on April 6. Brought to life by Bug Films (the studio behind Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead), this new animefollows Coco, a child fascinated with…
After capturing the attention of a global audience, the crew of Nasa’s Artemis II mission around the Moon have returned to Earth safely, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch,…
Fight night. The weekend is finally upon us, so it’s time for another edition of What Are You Playing! We thought that things might slow down a little after last week’s Galaxy Movie extravaganza, but nooo. We got a new…