Author: Jack Slater
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Monsters I’ll Never Hunt(er): World
Monster Hunter checks so many boxes that make me never want to play it. Lets go over them: Can’t pause the game to take care of my kid I don’t like hunting The monsters aren’t really bothering you, why hunt them? Different weapons for different enemies. I hated this about The Witcher games, too. There…
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Celeste Looks Beautiful
Originally a game for the PICO-8 fantasy computer (that I wrote about here), Celeste is a hardcore platformer from the developers of TowerFall that has now become a complete thing and is universally loved for its beautiful aesthetic and challenge. Polygon’s Russ Frustick reviewed it: Celeste feels like a very capably made platformer, easily on…
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Tacoma Giveaway
Fullbright’s Tacoma is a very thoughtful narrative-focused sci-fi adventure that I enjoyed and would like to share with you. You can enter to win a copy of the game on Steam for Windows, macOS, Linux here: Tacoma Giveaway The last day to enter this giveaway is on February 9th. This giveaway is not in collaboration…
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Surprise, Shadow of the Colossus is Still Great
Shadow of the Colossus is one of my favorite games. It is from a unique moment in time before independent developers had found the ability to publish their novel ideas widely. Instead, we had this deep series of boss fights from Team Ico that turns out to work just as well today as it did…
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Apple’s Ongoing Laptop Nightmare
A MacRumors forum member, project_2501, has posted this extensive log (via Nick Heer) of his attempt to work with Apple’s support to get a refund for one of the latest MacBook Pro’s after his couldn’t play video at 4K without overheating. Of course that overheating also caused other issues, like the glue holding the glass onto…