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Super Mario Odyssey: Clothes shopping at the short-and-squat store

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 18, 2017
2 min

Nintendo revealed a number of new mechanics for its Super Mario Odyssey platformer for Switch (read our preview) at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade...

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Total War: Arena will be an accessible free-to-play strategy game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 18, 2017
3 min

Total War: Arena will take the real-time strategy war video game in a completely new direction, making the series more accessible to larger numbers of...

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Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown is where the hunter becomes the hunted

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 18, 2017
12 min

If you’re afraid of the dark, Hunt: Showdown is going to scare you. Crytek’s new monster-hunting game is an intense, tension-filled experience where a...

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Nvidia keeps the faith for virtual reality on the PC

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 18, 2017
6 min

Microsoft backed away from virtual reality on the Xbox One X at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last week. But it said that VR...

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Super Mario Odyssey: We find an expert treasure tracker

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 18, 2017
1 min

Nintendo is packing its next Mario game full of secrets and subtle references, but when I played the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo...

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Watch us play Sea of Thieves on Xbox One X

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 18, 2017
1 min

One of Microsoft’s biggest games for next year is a silly multiplayer pirate simulator, and we got a chance to play it once again...

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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen upgrades design, enemies, and cinematic story

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 17, 2017
8 min

2K’s Firaxis Games made a lot of changes to the basic design of its turn-based combat game XCOM 2 with its new expansion XCOM 2:...

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Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is what would happen if XCOM devs dropped acid

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 17, 2017
3 min

Nintendo announced last year that it is planning to generate more money from its world-famous characters by licensing them out to other companies, and...