It may have started life as a Harvest Moon spin-off, but the Rune Factory series has managed to carve out a niche all its own. Combining life sim mechanics such as farming and fishing with deep RPG chops, Rune Factory is great series for those who want their life sims …
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Amazon is hosting a huge sale on select board games, card games, and tabletop RPGs right now. The deals include well-known classics like Trivial Pursuit and Munchkin; sprawling miniature-based strategy games like Star Wars: Legion and Marvel: Crisis Protocol; dungeon crawls like HeroQuest and Dark Souls: The Board Game; sourcebooks …
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Travis Kelce might be busy dating pop superstar Taylor Swift and preparing to play in the Super Bowl for the Kansas City Chiefs, but he’s also interested in helping to revive the Backyard Sports franchise, spearheaded by his brother and fellow NFL star Jason Kelce. Chatting on their podcast New …
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Last year, Sega and Atlus dropped the Etrian Odyssey Origins collection, which includes enhanced ports of the first three cult-classic dungeon RPGs for Nintendo Switch and PC. While the collection is a great way to revisit the series or try it out for the first time, its $80 price tag …
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The next Plants vs Zombies game is slowly approaching but getting ever closer, just like a zombie. EA and PopCap have announced that Plants vs Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia has soft-launched in the UK, Netherlands, Australia, and the Philippines. This latest phase of testing will set the stage for …
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A video uploaded to a small Japanese YouTube account last month has become an important part of video game history. A seconds-long section of the video appears to show the first-ever known footage of Luigi in Super Mario 64. The 13:20 mark of the video–which was uploaded to the Now …
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Plenty of Nintendo games have been discounted ahead of Black Friday 2023, but one game that is rarely on sale, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX, just got $20 slashed off of its price at Walmart. This is an exceptionally rare discount for a great Pokemon spin-off. It sold out …
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a game filled with memorable and explosive set pieces, but the central idea behind what would become one of the franchise’s most iconic missions, All Ghillied Up, didn’t initially win over many developers at Infinity Ward. The mission is now mimicked in nearly …
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Why wait for Capcom to make a remake of the remake of the first Resident Evil game, when you can do it yourself? That’s kind of the pitch for Resident Evil: The Board Game, which will allow you to step into the tactical boots of Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Rebecca …
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In the early days of Call of Duty, Activision reportedly tried to out-do Counter-Strike. Activison’s FPS series began to hit its stride once the team abandoned this approach and tried something else, though, and it involved killstreaks. Speaking to IGN, designer Mackey McCandlish, who worked on the early Call of …
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