Growing up in the '90s, good joysticks were strangely hard to come by. The stiff sticks on my local arcade cabinets, already inferior to their Japanese counterparts, always seemed to be so worn down that I'd have to smash them from edge-to-edge just to register an input. And yet the sticks attached to my friend's dusty Atari 2600, discovered in a box of his parents' old junk, still managed to make the arcade cabinet sticks look good. Those things were so atrocious it's a wonder videogames ever took off to begin with.
Remember those 'I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC' ad spots from years ago? Such platform rivalry feels like old, mouldering hat these days (especially to a console-gaming interloper like me). That said, we live in a world where both the MacBook Neo and the Dell XPS 13, two notebooks alike in dignity, are vying for the crown of 'most affordable entry-level notebook' at $699 a piece.
Big Hops is the cool 3D platform game with the frog who can use their tongue as a grappling hook. Despite much questing and fervent prayer, I have yet to encounter a frog that can do this in reality. Real-life frogs are a slothful, unimaginative bunch, content to use their tongues purely to catch food with. Some frogs, like the African dwarf frog, don't even have tongues at all. What foul sorcery is here!
At the beginning of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is a pretty lonely guy. After Aunt May died in the last movie, and since his friends have no memory of him thanks to Doctor Strange’s spell, the only person he really talks to is NYPD detective Jean DeWolff. They mostly just discuss whatever crime is going on at the moment.
GTA 6 is set in Vice City. I get why. Of all the GTA locales over the decades, we've seen Vice City a handful of times, none of which were enough to give the city a distinct identity like Liberty City developed. Now's the time to change that. But I can't help thinking about how different GTA 6 and the broader series could be with a change of setting, something that wasn't just another big, bad city. These are 10 of the things that popped into my mind.
"Don't even talk to me before I've had my coffee that restores my lost memories!" This is a line I imagine that the general public would oft repeat in the world of Hips N Noses, a cafe management sim/Vampire Survivors-esque roguelike that's set in a world where no one but you can sleep, and everyone's suffering from a touch of amnesia.
In a July 29 IGN interview, prolific director Guillermo del Toro shared his love of the hardcore action-roguelike, Dead Cells, but lamented its difficulty, wishing there was a mode that eased up on the roguelike restarts. Dead Cells studio Motion Twin has since responded to IGN, and recommends del Toro try the easy mode it's already got in there.
One of the most magical parts of Silent Hill f was that never in a hundred years did I think it would be something that Konami would greenlight. Not because it's outlandish or a poor idea, I absolutely loved it, but because I just thought Konami had kind of set aside doing anything new with the franchise.
I am lucky enough to live close to some of the best plant shops I've ever had the pleasure to stumble into. I love taking my sweet time strolling around each one, looking at all the plants, succulents, seeds, and pots—all of which I could never dream of fitting into my small apartment. The best part of all of them is just how jumbled they all are, brimming with all sorts of strange plants for customers to discover. So, with that in mind you'd think I'd also create a maze-oasis of foliage right? Wrong.
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