Category: video games
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Katamari Damacy ReRoll Out Now on Switch & Steam
Katamari Damacy has had a troubled history of ephemerality, but the first game in the series has finally been re-released as Katamari Damacy ReRoll. It is a bare-bones update, the game was never a graphical showpiece, but the focus here is on making Katamari available again for the first time in over a decade The unique…
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Counter-Strike: GOes F2P, Adds Battle Royale Mode
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the latest update to the classic Counter-Strike gameplay, and it is now free-to-play, and the game’s developers at Valve have added a battle royale mode called Danger Zone. Unfortunately that mode doesn’t involve crashing cars through puzzle-y intersections. All of these updates are out now, and Valve has an FAQ about…
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Rival Megagun Is the Competitive Shoot-Em-Up Game Teens Crave
This is Rival Megagun, it’s a competitive multiplayer vertical-scrolling shooter. I love it. Twinkle Star Sprites was the first competitive multiplayer vertical-scrolling shooter I ever played, it’s a Neo Geo classic. The thing that makes these games special is that they are unique multiplayer novelties. There are fighting games, there are shooters, there was even…
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Ben Heck Found a Use for the Neo Geo Mini
Ben Heck left The Ben Heck Show at Element 14 and is back on his own channel. SNK’s cash-in on the mini console wave produced a mostly disappointing miniature arcade machine that doesn’t even wear the red and white color scheme we’ve come to expect. Heck’s first big project post TBHS is tearing down the…
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Hitman (2016) 2 (2018) is Ready for Disguises and Murder
The all-caps sequel to the all-caps Hitman (2016) is out, Hitman (2016) 2 (2018) is io interactive’s first murder simulator post-expulsion from Square Enix and apparently this iteration has a magic briefcase. It also has all of the missions from the first (2016) game upgraded a bit for people who already owned that. If you don’t,…