The Best Games You Aren’t Playing: Metavaxx, First Land, and More

Plenty of folks play games to unwind and unplug from whatever ails them in the world beyond their screen. But like any form of creative expression, games have just as much power to reflect the hardships we experience rather than simply enabling us to put them aside. So be warned:…

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Mass Effect Deserves Better Than Rehashing Its Past

Let me preface this by saying everything that follows is based on speculation circulating online. It’s a frustrating position to be in to talk about these things, but from the looks of it, BioWare’s marketing of the next Mass Effect is thriving on being just hazy enough to say nothing…

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In a Win For Game Preservation, The Tomorrow Children is Going Back Online

Q-Games, the developer behind the PlayStation 4 exclusive The Tomorrow Children, has announced it has acquired the rights to the game from Sony, which will allow it to bring the game back online after the publisher shut it down back in 2017. When the game launched in 2016, it was…

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NEWS

Pokemon Unite Teases Decidueye As Next Roster Addition [UPDATE]

Update: Decidueye will join Pokemon Unite’s next Friday on November 19. Decidueye is battling in style! Check out some of their moves in our Character Spotlight, and get ready to compete in #PokemonUNITE on 11/19! pic.twitter.com/K0wt5pSoym — Pokémon UNITE (@PokemonUnite) November 12, 2021 It looks like Pokemon Unite’s next roster addition is imminent, as…

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Netflix’s Arcane Marks a New, Harmonious Era for League of Legends

For the past few years, Riot Games has been hard-resetting the lore for League of Legends; completely throwing out the old scattered texts and replacing them with surprisingly captivating narratives. It was a brazen decision to make, but it’s already paid off tenfold with fresh and well written character introductions,…

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Join the Pencil Army: The Essential Lulu Pencil

There’s a good possibility you’ve heard the name Lulu Pencil in the past few months. From her recent appearances on AEW Dark (serving her royal highness Emi Sakura), to her recent Pro Wrestling Illustrated cover celebrating her #500 spot (an alternate cover, sure, but they don’t do that for everyone).…

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The Waylanders Launch Delayed into the Abyss of Next February

As Shigeru Miyamoto once said and the internet always parrots back when a game will miss its projected release date, “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” So the fact that Gato Studio is delaying The Waylanders for some extra development time is a…

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Mass Effect’s Pinnacle Station DLC Lives On Through a Modding Project

The Mass Effect: Legendary Edition does not officially include the original Pinnacle Station DLC, but a team of modders at ME3Tweaks have restored the lost add-on after BioWare admitted they no longer had access to the source code from developer Demiurge Studios. In the lead up to the Mass Effect…

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Mass Effect's original look before the Legendary Edition

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Mass Effect’s Latest Choice Report Reveals Which Endings Players Are Picking

It’s N7 Day, BioWare’s yearly celebration of the original Mass Effect trilogy and Andromeda that sometimes brings bigger beats on the series’ next moves. This year, BioWare continues the trend of showing how wrong or right some of us are while playing through the new Legendary Edition with an updated…

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Animal Crossing Is Bringing Black Friday Sales To Your Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons taps into that warm and fuzzy side of everyone that likes gift-giving, decorating, and spending time with friends. It’s also got a ruthless raccoon debt collector and an upcoming tribute to the most hellish time of the year, Black Friday, but this is one you can…

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Animal Crossing's Winter update preview, which will now include Nook Friday.

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FFXIV Endwalker Will Tighten Some Housing Rules, Increase Supply

Final Fantasy XIV’s housing system is changing things up again. During the latest Letter from the Producer Live, director and producer Naoki Yoshida detailed how Endwalker’s release will implement a new lottery system, change up a few rules, and add homes in Ishgard. If you’ve ever logged into Final Fantasy…

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Final Fantasy 14's director and producer Naoki Yoshida shows off a new exterior for Endwalker Housing.

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‘Eternals’ Review: The Ride Never Ends

From the moment it was announced that celebrated independent filmmaker Chloé Zhao (now the Academy’s reigning Best Director) was attached to direct a Marvel movie, fans have known that they were in for a weird one. How would such a naturalistic, humanist cinematic voice blend with that of a computer-polished,…

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