All of the Decent Amount of New NieR Series Information From Tokyo Game Show

Just like Square Enix promised, there was a decent amount of new information on NieR at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. While most of it pertained to the remake of NieR Replicant, NieR Replicant ver. 1.22474487139, there was a little more information on the upcoming NieR smartphone game, NieR: Re[in]carnation.…

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NEWS

Fūnk-é Joseph’s Game of the Year 2020 List

We did it gamers. 2020 is almost over. I can’t believe it. And while it was definitely a wack year, I didn’t entirely hate it! The world has been exploding. We all made a shift towards a more online-centric way of life. It’s bittersweet; I like not having to walk through the snow…

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FEATURES

A Behavioral and Anatomical Examination of Sirfetch’d, the Most Horrifying Pokémon Ever

The email was innocuous enough. “Meet Sirfetch’d!” the subject line read, excitedly introducing the newest addition to the Pokemon Sword and Shield games. The internet went wild, as a neglected Generation One Pokemon was finally getting a handsome, powerful new evolution. But folks? You don’t want to meet Sirfetch’d. You really,…

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Persona 5 Striker Bond Level Guide – How to Get Bond Points

Persona 5 Strikers is only a few weeks away, so it’s time to rally the Phantom Thieves together for one last adventure. Developed by Omega Force and P-Studio, Strikers is a radically different style of game than the smash-hit JRPG Persona 5. Combat is no-longer turn-based, but a mix of the army…

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GUIDES

PS Plus Premium Games Guide: PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Classic Games List (September 2022)

There has been no shortage of debate over the PS Plus Premium games coming to the service. Split between PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium tiers, there are different benefits attached to each one of them. We have a guide covering what they all entail, but if you’re curious about…

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GUIDES

How Video Game-related Fan Signs Took Over Wrestling Nerd Culture

There’s been a recent renaissance in the world of expressive wrestling fans in the past few months. Instead of hand-made signs focusing on a favorite wrestler or proclaiming that a local friend sucks, everyone seems to be bringing signs about their opinions on video games and crowd shots suddenly resemble…

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WRESTLING

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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Who Owns Cartoon Characters in the Age of Fandom?

When I was a little kid, the toys I played with were my first taste of story-telling. I created elaborate narratives, plot-lines, and soap opera levels of drama within the confines of playsets and plastic figurines based on cartoons. All that mattered was that I had my own agency over…

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Give Us a Haunting Ground Remake You Cowards

Capcom has been hitting it out of the park recently: the series-revitalizing Resident Evil 7 became their fifth-best selling game ever, the Resident Evil 2 remake has been getting dazzling reviews, and the company dipped into their backlog to offer a beautifully polished remaster of Onimusha. While EA is forcing…

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Here’s Where Every Kingdom Hearts Game Fits in the Series Timeline

Kingdom Hearts 3 is nearly here (it’s out on Jan. 29, 2019, to be specific). And unless you’ve kept up with the long-running series from the beginning, you might be a little lost. The story and timeline tends to bounce around a lot, after all. The original release order is, in…

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Kingdom Hearts Timeline

LISTS

New Mass Effect Game Merch Listing Implies the Return of Shepard and I’m Gonna Be Sick [UPDATE]

The next game in the Mass Effect series continues to be an enigma and a never-ending nightmare to me, a long-time fan who has loved the series largely for its aspirations in player agency and choice. Which, to be clear, weren’t perfect, as the original trilogy made a handful of concessions that…

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New Mass Effect Game Merch Listing Implies the Return of Shepard and I'm Gonna Be Sick

NEWS

The Good Omens Miniseries is Definitely a Fanfic I Read in 2006

Just about every Good Omens fan has a story about a copy (or two) that was lent out and never returned as a point of pride. And the book’s struggle to make it to adaptation are nearly as legendary as the book itself, spawning a Gaiman short story (“The Goldfish…

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