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Exploding hot air balloons, zombie bread, and other joys from Overcooked 2's crazy cartoon kitchens
By William Hughes August 17, 2018 | 5:00am
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The Escalating Power Fantasy of Doom Eternal
By Holly Green August 16, 2018 | 5:30pm
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Legend of Solgard Got Me Hooked on a Free-to-Play Game for the First Time
By Garrett Martin August 16, 2018 | 4:00pm
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If You Like No Man's Sky Next You Probably Should've Liked the Original No Man's Sky
By Garrett Martin August 15, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Cozy Up to Some Coffee Talk: The Value of Comfortable Games
By Dante Douglas August 15, 2018 | 11:35am
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Quake Champions Q&A: "You Can't Miss the Boat if You're the Only One at the Dock"
By Holly Green August 14, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Fallout 76's Downright Exciting Plan to Deal With Griefing and Trolls
By Holly Green August 11, 2018 | 3:39pm
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Like any good demon, Unavowed builds its best temptations around choice
By William Hughes August 10, 2018 | 5:00am
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Slow down for Okami, a game about a dog goddess who feeds squirrels for points
By Clayton Purdom August 8, 2018 | 3:00pm
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No Man's Sky Turns Me Into a Galactic Errand Boy, and I Don't Have Time for That
By Cameron Kunzelman August 8, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Nintendo's Sky Skipper Proves You Can't Force Nostalgia
By Garrett Martin August 7, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Sleep Tight Is a Good Tower Defense Game for Beginners
By Holly Green August 6, 2018 | 4:28pm
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Microsoft Needs To Put Up or Shut Up With PC Gaming
By Holly Green August 3, 2018 | 2:30pm
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No Man's Sky's Massive Scope Is One of the Best and Worst Things About It
By Dante Douglas August 3, 2018 | 10:30am
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Thank You For Playing. And See You Next.
By Matt Gerardi August 3, 2018 | 5:00am
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The Sims 4 Is Exactly Like Real Life and That's Why It Sucks
By Holly Green August 2, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Octopath Traveler melts the JRPG down to its pure, comforting core
By Matt Gerardi August 1, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Is There Really Enough of a Nostalgia Factor for a Nickeloden Kart Racing Game?
By Holly Green August 1, 2018 | 10:30am
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The Spiral Scouts is a Satisfying Mixture of Crass and Complex
By Shonte Daniels July 31, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Psychedelic
dystopias, Wario’s wares, and lots more games to play in August
By Matt Gerardi July 31, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Banner Saga 3's Apocalyptic Dread Echoes Real Life
By Dante Douglas July 31, 2018 | 10:00am
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Living the Power Fantasies of World of Tanks: Mercenaries
By Garrett Martin July 30, 2018 | 2:00pm
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No Response Reminds Us to Reflect on Life
By Shonte Daniels July 30, 2018 | 12:25pm
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Watch Us Drive Tanks and Crush Cars
By Garrett Martin July 27, 2018 | 5:30pm
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The Lion's Song Shares the Wistfulness of What Could Have Been
By Holly Green July 27, 2018 | 1:15pm
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Lumines
belongs
in the pantheon of all-time great puzzle games
By Matt Gerardi and Clayton Purdom, Clayton Purdom July 27, 2018 | 5:00am
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider and the Human Impact of Archaeology
By Holly Green July 26, 2018 | 12:30pm
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8 Tips and Tricks to Guide You Through Octopath Traveler
By Andy Moore July 25, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Mega Man X's groundbreaking evolution sent it soaring into the skies
By William Hughes July 24, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Z Targeting Is The Perfect Metaphor for My Emotional Exhaustion
By Holly Green July 24, 2018 | 2:30pm
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No Man’s Sky is finally discovering signs of life in its AI universe
By Clayton Purdom July 24, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Switch's Hot Summer: Six Recent Releases You Should Check Out
By Garrett Martin July 23, 2018 | 1:00pm
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With a little help from Nikola Tesla, The Invisible Hours expands our idea of what a VR "game" can be
By William Hughes July 21, 2018 | 5:00pm
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30
years ago, Bionic Commando proved video game grappling hooks are
awesome
By Matt Gerardi July 20, 2018 | 7:20pm
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Crafting Games Need More Structure If They're Going To Survive
By Holly Green July 20, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Mothergunship
makes building your own ridiculous guns just as fun as using them
By Matt Gerardi July 20, 2018 | 5:00am
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Let us consider Toad, whatever the hell he is
By Clayton Purdom July 19, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Roguelike Deckbuilder Slay the Spire Adds Depth with a Radically Different New Character
By Dante Douglas July 19, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Are Jump Scares Really All That Bad?
By Holly Green July 18, 2018 | 11:30am
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A Beginner's Guide to Graveyard Keeper
By Holly Green July 17, 2018 | 12:05pm
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The Last of Us Part II Should Be Less About Violence and More About Romantic Barn Dances
By Garrett Martin July 16, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Watch Nathan Fillion Play Nathan Drake in an Uncharted Fan Film
By Garrett Martin July 16, 2018 | 11:30am
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Sonic
Mania Plus finally finds an
interesting way to use Sonic’s friends
By Matt Gerardi and William Hughes, William Hughes July 13, 2018 | 5:00am
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Red Faction:
Guerrilla embraced players for
what we are: total assholes
By Matt Gerardi July 12, 2018 | 6:00pm
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New Ice York Is A Funny Look at Hating The Places We Love
By Shonte Daniels July 12, 2018 | 10:30am
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Shape of the World Is a Beautiful, Lifeless Void
By Cameron Kunzelman July 11, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Concluse Illustrates The Chilling Effectiveness of Retrograde Horror
By Holly Green July 10, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Here's Video of Me Awkwardly Hanging Out at Toy Story Land
By Garrett Martin July 9, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Overwatch's Newest Hero Shows Blizzard at Its Most Cringeworthy
By Dante Douglas July 9, 2018 | 12:00pm
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ArenaNet Fires Two Guild Wars 2 Writers Over Tweets, Sending a Bad Message to Designers and Consumers
By Garrett Martin July 6, 2018 | 5:45pm
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Should I Eat This Cuphead Cereal or Should I Just Lay Down and Die
By Holly Green July 6, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Rage
2 is on the way, but the original is worth revisiting
By Matt Gerardi July 6, 2018 | 5:00am
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Wacky cartoon pool,
a beautiful throwback RPG, and more games to play in July
By Matt Gerardi July 3, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Sorry, Division 2: No Matter What Your Designers Say, You're Still a Political Game
By Dante Douglas July 3, 2018 | 11:02am
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Toy Story Land Brings New Life to Disney's Hollywood Studios
By Garrett Martin July 2, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Cyberpunk 2077's Politics Should Be as Powerful as Its Aesthetics
By Dante Douglas June 30, 2018 | 3:08pm
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Watch Us Ride the Slinky Dog Dash Roller Coaster at Disney's Toy Story Land
By Garrett Martin June 29, 2018 | 9:30am
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With Jurassic World Revealed, Amazon shows voice games for Alexa are no joke
By Alex McLevy and Matt Gerardi, Matt Gerardi June 29, 2018 | 5:00am
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Steam
sale deep cuts: 20 under-the-radar games under $5
By The A.V. Club, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Clayton Purdom June 28, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The Church in the Darkness: Building a Believable Cult
By Brock Wilbur June 28, 2018 | 10:30am
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Finding the Right Work-Life Balance with Moonlighter
By Shonte Daniels June 27, 2018 | 10:30am
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Detroit,
Westworld, and moving androids beyond human
By Reid McCarter June 26, 2018 | 4:45pm
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The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2018 so far
By The A.V. Club, Sam Barsanti, Nick Wanserski, Patrick Lee, Anthony John Agnello, Clayton Purdom, William Hughes June 26, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Rise of the Destiny-likes
By Dante Douglas June 25, 2018 | 11:00am
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Voyageur and the Human Power of Sci-Fi
By Shonte Daniels June 22, 2018 | 11:15am
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In
Quarantine Circular, the fate of humanity rests on your
conversation with an alien
By Matt Gerardi June 22, 2018 | 5:00am
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Graveyard Keeper Is Better Than Stardew Valley
By Holly Green June 21, 2018 | 12:08pm
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The 15 best video game trailers of E3 2018
By Matt Gerardi June 19, 2018 | 5:51pm
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Why I Stopped Caring about Telltale's The Walking Dead
By Cameron Kunzelman June 19, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Prey: Mooncrash makes a stressful new nightmare out of one of 2017’s best games
By Matt Gerardi and William Hughes, William Hughes June 15, 2018 | 5:00am
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How Ghost of Tsushima Hopes to Remain Faithful to Japanese Culture
By Garrett Martin June 14, 2018 | 8:30pm
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The Xbox Adaptive Controller Might Improve Your Quality of Life
By Holly Green June 14, 2018 | 3:10pm
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What Does The Last of Us Part 2's Trailer Mean for Queer Representation in Games?
By Holly Green June 13, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Migos Work Hard and Only Play EA, Apparently
By Jamie Loftus June 13, 2018 | 10:00am
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Paste Is at E3 Again, for Some Reason
By Garrett Martin June 12, 2018 | 3:47pm
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The Narrative Contradictions of Vampyr Spoil An Otherwise Good Game
By Dante Douglas June 8, 2018 | 10:00am
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Onrush is a chaotic, high-speed racing game that isn’t a racing game at all
By Matt Gerardi June 8, 2018 | 5:00am
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Fallout’s best vault elected to tell the series’ darkest story
By William Hughes June 7, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Valve Ignores Its Responsibility with Its New Steam Content Policy
By Garrett Martin June 6, 2018 | 5:30pm
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The deliciously nasty Vampyr feels like a game from another era
By Clayton Purdom June 4, 2018 | 10:00pm
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A Hands-on Look at Crusader Kings and Paradox's Other Upcoming Board Games
By Keith Law June 4, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Fallout 76: Everything We Know About the New Vault (and How I Feel About It)
By Holly Green June 1, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Battlebond Is Magic for Two, with Fascinating Results
By Cameron Kunzelman June 1, 2018 | 11:30am
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Ikaruga
on the Switch is a perfect
introduction to the beauty of bullet-hell games
By Matt Gerardi, Clayton Purdom June 1, 2018 | 5:00am
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PUBG Vs. Fortnite: The Growing Pains of a New Genre
By Dante Douglas May 31, 2018 | 11:30am
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Quarantine Circular Is a Great Example of Blended Genres
By Shonte Daniels May 30, 2018 | 12:35pm
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Mario
Tennis, a Jurassic Park builder, and more games to play in June
By The A.V. Club, Clayton Purdom, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes May 29, 2018 | 11:00am
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Steam's Confusing Policies Are Bad for the Game Development Community
By Dante Douglas May 25, 2018 | 2:29pm
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Getting
back into Dark Souls is just like riding a bike
By Matt Gerardi May 25, 2018 | 5:00am
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The Culture Wars Churn On with Fake Outrage Over Battlefield V
By Garrett Martin May 24, 2018 | 2:05pm
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Boots on the Ground: Paste Goes to the Black Ops IIII Press Event
By Cameron Kunzelman May 23, 2018 | 1:45pm
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A Way Out saved its best idea for the last 20 minutes
By William Hughes May 22, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Bombslinger Proves That Procedural Generation Isn't Right for Every Genre
By Garrett Martin May 21, 2018 | 3:39pm
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Dungeons & Dragons Digs Deep Into Gods and Demons With Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
By Cameron Kunzelman May 21, 2018 | 11:30am
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Frostpunk Is a Refreshingly Honest, Boldly Fascist Look at Steampunk's Victorian Roots
By Dante Douglas May 18, 2018 | 11:30am
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Rolling through a more
artful post-apocalypse in Far: Lone Sails
By Matt Gerardi and Clayton Purdom, Clayton Purdom May 18, 2018 | 5:00am
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God of War Is a Great Reminder That Most of Our Dads Suck
By Holly Green May 17, 2018 | 3:00pm
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God
Of War’s ending leaves plenty of clues about where the series is
headed next
By Matt Gerardi May 15, 2018 | 5:00pm
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How The Organizers of Wicomicon and Famcon Turned Bad News into Stone Soup
By Shonte Daniels May 15, 2018 | 12:07pm
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Any Credibility Daybreak Games Had is Gone Now, No Matter Who Actually Owns Them (Updated)
By Brian Bell May 11, 2018 | 3:39pm
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Blurry PlayStation graphics make for seriously surreal horror in Paratopic
By Matt Gerardi, Clayton Purdom May 11, 2018 | 5:00am
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I Spent a Few Hours with Oculus Go. Here Are My Thoughts.
By Holly Green May 10, 2018 | 1:04pm
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On the Quiet, Effortless Diversity of Battletech
By Dante Douglas May 9, 2018 | 10:30am
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Smacking a YouTuber
with their own selfie stick is a new peak for video game catharsis
By Matt Gerardi May 8, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Is There Life After Early Access? Revisiting The Forest
By Holly Green May 8, 2018 | 1:30pm
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The Overwatch League Won’t Successfully Emulate Traditional Sports Leagues Until It Evolves Like Them
By Brian Bell May 7, 2018 | 10:30am
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I Just Can't with the Climbing on Rails in God of War Anymore
By Holly Green May 4, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Frostpunk Doesn't Ignore the Human Connection
By Cameron Kunzelman May 4, 2018 | 10:30am
