Author: Jack Slater
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The Fall Part 2: Unbound, Released, You Can Now Be Train
The Fall was a fantastic, short, adventure about an AI combat suit that activates when it crash lands on an unknown planet, its duty was to protect the unconscious human pilot inside. That was Part 1, things are different in Part 2, and you can see a bit of that in the gameplay footage above…
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The HomePod Situation
Apple’s competitor to other standalone high-end speakers came out on Friday. It’s the HomePod. Apple boasts about its higher quality sound that adapt to the room you are in, reviewers agree. Nilay Patel wrote this in his review: All of this means the HomePod sounds noticeably richer and fuller than almost every other speaker we’ve…
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Puyo Puyo Tetris for Windows on February 27th
Almost everybody seems to have liked Puyo Puyo Tetris on the Switch and PlayStation 4. Sega combined the Puyo Puyo and Tetris puzzles games, but you can also just play either in a bunch of different modes. It came out early last year and it’s finally hitting Windows via Steam on February 27th. Caty McCarthy’s…
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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…