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Location Is Everything for Last Stop and Virginia
By Grace Benfell July 29, 2021 | 4:30pm
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The Sims 4: Cottage Living Lets You Live That Simple Life
By Holly Green July 27, 2021 | 12:20pm
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The World Ends With You: What We Lose When We Remake Games
By Grace Benfell July 26, 2021 | 12:15pm
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So, the Witcher Pokémon Go game is pretty weird
By William Hughes July 23, 2021 | 5:00am
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You may now buy an ugly, slow, Mario-themed TAG Heuer smartwatch for $2,150
By Reid McCarter July 22, 2021 | 8:45pm
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Suzerain: Personal Politics, the Global Community, and Empathy in Games
By Kevin Fox Jr., Paste Staff July 22, 2021 | 2:00pm
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Gunbird 2 Is a Shmup with Character(s)
By Garrett Martin July 21, 2021 | 5:45pm
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Games Don't Need "Director's Cuts" and Auteurs, They Need Innovation and Accountability
By Jessica Howard July 20, 2021 | 3:45pm
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Meet Alex Moukala, the bassist on a heroic quest to make Final Fantasy funky
By Reid McCarter July 19, 2021 | 5:30pm
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Final Fantasy X: 20 Years Later, We Still Haven't Conquered Sin
By Austin Jones July 19, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Let's check in on the people speedrunning Super Mario while blindfolded
By Reid McCarter July 16, 2021 | 11:11pm
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Reevaluating the Canon: How a Remaster Impacts a Game's Legacy
By Moises Taveras July 16, 2021 | 2:25pm
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Have you heard the good news about PowerWash Simulator?
By William Hughes July 16, 2021 | 5:00am
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Is It Finally Time for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword to Shine?
By Joseph Stanichar July 15, 2021 | 2:00pm
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Someone spent $1.56M on a copy of Super Mario 64 instead of just, like, downloading it
By Reid McCarter July 12, 2021 | 8:30pm
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Fallout 76 Continues to Grow and Improve with the new Steel Reign Update
By Holly Green July 12, 2021 | 1:45pm
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Progear Is a Steampunk Dive into the Depths of Bullet Hell
By Garrett Martin July 9, 2021 | 6:00pm
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Here are all the games we’re kicking ourselves for leaving off our Best Of 2021 so far list
By William Hughes July 9, 2021 | 5:00am
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Legend of Mana and the Storybook Charm of Nonlinear RPGs
By Austin Jones July 7, 2021 | 1:00pm
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How Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Echoes the Best Current Storyline in Pro Wrestling
By Garrett Martin July 2, 2021 | 6:05pm
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Nintendo has finally fixed golf, a sport that has been terrible for centuries
By Sam Barsanti July 2, 2021 | 5:00am
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Wildermyth Rethinks the Stories We Tell in RPGs
By Waverly July 1, 2021 | 2:00pm
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Prison Architect: Second Chances Adds Rehabilitation but Still Incentivizes Punishment
By Nicolas Perez June 30, 2021 | 3:15pm
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intermission Gives Yuffie The Charming Introduction She Deserves
By Jessica Howard June 30, 2021 | 12:30pm
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Mario Golf: Super Rush Is Fun, but Unfortunately It Is Still Golf
By Holly Green June 29, 2021 | 12:00pm
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The Adorable Brutality of Hacha Mecha Fighter
By Garrett Martin June 28, 2021 | 5:30pm
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Pokémon craze now looks tame thanks to $13M Yu-Gi-Oh! card auction linked to embezzlement case
By Reid McCarter June 25, 2021 | 7:00pm
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The Videogame Industry Still Needs to Reckon with Its Lack of Diversity
By Katherine Long June 25, 2021 | 2:30pm
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Scarlet Nexus is damn good fun—once it gets up to speed
By William Hughes June 25, 2021 | 5:00am
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Meet Food4Dogs, an elderly lady from New Zealand who loves the PlayStation Vita and unboxing video games
By Reid McCarter June 23, 2021 | 7:02pm
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Nintendo's Game Builder Garage Is Too Inaccessible and Closed Off to Be a Useful Tool
By Grace Benfell June 23, 2021 | 12:45pm
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Final Fantasy Origin: Stranger of Paradise Reinforces My Fears about the Future of Final Fantasy
By Waverly June 21, 2021 | 1:45pm
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Ethan Winters Doesn't Have a Face. Is Resident Evil Also Losing Its Identity?
By Moises Taveras June 18, 2021 | 10:30am
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Oh god, what if I don’t like Breath Of The Wild 2, either?
By William Hughes June 18, 2021 | 5:00am
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The Future of Fallout 76: The Developers Discuss What to Expect from the Post-Apocalypse
By Holly Green June 14, 2021 | 12:30pm
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The Peace and Fury of the Shoot 'Em Up
By Garrett Martin June 11, 2021 | 3:45pm
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In Strangeland, hell might just be in your head
By William Hughes June 11, 2021 | 5:00am
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The Moral Philosophies that Center Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
By Austin Jones June 4, 2021 | 12:00pm
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Take us down to Knockout City, where the dodgeballs fly and—oh god, the dodgeballs!
By William Hughes June 4, 2021 | 5:00am
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Theme Park Videogames Highlight the Fallacy of "The Great Executive"
By Waverly June 1, 2021 | 11:30am
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It’s Time to Kill Morrowind in our Minds
By Dia Lacina May 28, 2021 | 1:30pm
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Help, I’m still stacking rocks 160 hours into Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
By Liz Arcury May 28, 2021 | 5:00am
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I Think New Pokémon Snap Is Making Me a Worse Photographer
By Holly Green May 27, 2021 | 1:30pm
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The A.V. Club is fighting our way through Biomutant on Twitch
By William Hughes May 26, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Cool dad ruins eSport son's bid at Counter-Strike tournament glory by wandering shirtless onto stream
By Reid McCarter May 25, 2021 | 7:00pm
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Exclusive: Watch the Video for "Dear Summer" by Mega Ran and Noveliss
By Garrett Martin May 25, 2021 | 2:30pm
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Not quite the very best: 13 Pokémon imitators and rip-offs that didn’t make the cut
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti May 24, 2021 | 5:00am
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Mourning the Macho Man: The 10th Anniversary of Randy Savage's Death
By Garrett Martin May 21, 2021 | 5:30pm
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Honk honk, SnowRunner and its big, slippery trucks are calling
By Sam Barsanti May 21, 2021 | 5:00am
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Get to know King Pokémon, the obsessive collector with more than $10 million in cartoon animal cards
By Reid McCarter May 19, 2021 | 1:00pm
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Alone Again Or: Deathloop Immerses You in the '60s and '70s, Again and Again and Again
By Garrett Martin May 19, 2021 | 10:00am
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With its final ending, The Binding Of Isaac crawls out of the poop at last
By William Hughes May 17, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Listen to an Exclusive Preview of Prescription for Sleep: Stardew Valley, Featuring Lullabies Based on Stardew Valley's Music
By Garrett Martin May 17, 2021 | 9:30am
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What do Steve Jobs, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chuck E. Cheese have in common? This early Atari hit
By Mike Vago May 16, 2021 | 5:00am
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It's Time to Reckon with Mass Effect's Police State Heart
By Grace Benfell May 14, 2021 | 2:10pm
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Resident Evil Village’s scariest section isn’t afraid to baby its players
By William Hughes May 14, 2021 | 5:00am
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Well, it's not like adding Frasier to Cyberpunk 2077 would make it any worse
By Andrew Paul May 13, 2021 | 7:59pm
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Children no longer allowed to buy Pokémon cards at Target thanks to Wisconsin brawl
By Reid McCarter May 13, 2021 | 4:00pm
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Wrath of the Druids DLC Is Even More of the Same
By Nicolas Perez May 12, 2021 | 3:50pm
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The A.V. Club is playing Resident Evil Village today on Twitch
By William Hughes May 12, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Modder introduces new Resident Evil Village monsters by swapping baby and adult man faces
By Reid McCarter May 11, 2021 | 5:31pm
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Time loop stories are rarely more claustrophobic than the opening minutes of Twelve Minutes
By William Hughes May 10, 2021 | 4:00pm
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An ode to Resident Evil Village’s goofy, gross, and beautiful mechanical toyboxes
By William Hughes May 7, 2021 | 5:00am
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The A.V. Club is playing Stranded Deep on Twitch
By William Hughes May 5, 2021 | 4:00pm
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Nintendo doesn’t allow partners to work with (checks notes) the Yakuza
By Matt Schimkowitz May 5, 2021 | 3:10am
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Rock Band Affirms the Liberating Power of Music
By Grace Benfell April 30, 2021 | 12:45pm
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Returnal is the first great PlayStation 5 game
By William Hughes April 30, 2021 | 5:00am
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New video game allows players to experience the vicarious thrill of shaking another person's hand
By Reid McCarter April 29, 2021 | 6:41pm
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The A.V. Club Twitch is venturing into Returnal's hostile second world
By William Hughes April 29, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Golden Nintendo Wii created for Queen Elizabeth II now on sale for the low, low price of $300,000
By Reid McCarter April 28, 2021 | 7:06pm
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Rimworld's Focus on Happiness Is a Refreshing Change-Up for the Base-Building Genre
By Nicolas Perez April 28, 2021 | 11:25am
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Nintendo to finally ruin long-distance friendships with actual online mode for Super Mario Party
By Sam Barsanti April 27, 2021 | 10:17pm
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Destiny 2 Becomes the Worst Possible Version of Itself with Its Ridiculous New Transmog System
By Moises Taveras April 23, 2021 | 5:00pm
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Thank You Danganronpa, For Giving Me a Firsthand Lesson in Masochism
By Waverly April 23, 2021 | 4:15pm
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Nier: Automata fans will love Nier: Replicant—eventually
By William Hughes April 23, 2021 | 5:00am
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The A.V. Club is playing the brand new, brutally beautiful Returnal on Twitch
By William Hughes April 22, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Resident Evil Village's Timed Demo Is a Really Bad Idea
By Moises Taveras April 20, 2021 | 1:00pm
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Whatever Happened to the Immersive Sim?
By Moises Taveras April 16, 2021 | 12:45pm
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Remaster or no, SaGa Frontier remains busted in all the weirdest ways
By William Hughes April 16, 2021 | 5:00am
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Join The A.V. Club on Twitch every Wednesday at 2 p.m. CST
By The A.V. Club April 14, 2021 | 7:00pm
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The A.V. Club Twitch is getting nostalgic with SaGa Frontier Remastered
By William Hughes April 14, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Fortnite maker Epic is now valued at nearly $30 billion, so it's a good thing bubbles never burst
By Sam Barsanti April 13, 2021 | 10:13pm
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Roblox politics role-player fakes journalist credentials to sneak into White House press corps
By Reid McCarter April 13, 2021 | 3:19pm
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Nier Replicant Still Portrays Queer Bodies with Brutal Honesty
By Austin Jones April 13, 2021 | 2:00pm
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Gird yourself for battle by revisiting 2000's "Pokémon Combat Rap"
By Reid McCarter April 12, 2021 | 4:29pm
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Sony reportedly remaking obscure niche video game The Last Of Us
By William Hughes April 9, 2021 | 11:03pm
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Diablo II: Resurrected Alpha Impressions: It's Pretty Good So Far
By Holly Green April 9, 2021 | 12:45pm
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Pac-Man 99 misses the points
By William Hughes April 9, 2021 | 5:00am
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Outriders hates everybody—including the people playing it
By William Hughes April 8, 2021 | 3:00pm
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The cast and crew behind Host made a terrifying "real-time, live-action" video game
By Tatiana Tenreyro April 7, 2021 | 9:51pm
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Mad video game scientist creates enormous Nintendo Switch
By Reid McCarter April 7, 2021 | 7:08pm
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The A.V. Club Twitch is playing The Binding Of Isaac: Repentance
By William Hughes April 7, 2021 | 3:00pm
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This year's E3 is going to be completely online, but at least it'll be free for everyone
By Sam Barsanti April 6, 2021 | 8:24pm
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Oh Hell, I Think I Like Monster Hunter Now?
By Garrett Martin April 5, 2021 | 4:45pm
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It Takes Two Is About Divorce, but Doesn’t Have Much to Say About It
By Joseph Stanichar April 5, 2021 | 12:45pm
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Monster Hunter Rise is wonderfully, perfectly tedious
By William Hughes April 2, 2021 | 5:00am
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We feel absolutely no serenity now that we've had another look at Sinfeld, the Seinfeld-themed horror game
By Reid McCarter April 1, 2021 | 6:10pm
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RetroMania Wrestling Gets Us Nostalgic for Wrestling’s Past--and Worried about Its Future
By Garrett Martin April 1, 2021 | 3:30pm
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Is Mario Really Dead?
By Garrett Martin March 31, 2021 | 4:15pm
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The Switch Version of Apex Legends Reinforces How the Game's Strength Is Its Smallness
By Grace Benfell March 30, 2021 | 2:00pm
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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Is Getting Easier. Is That a Good Thing?
By Shane Ryan March 29, 2021 | 1:45pm
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Square's PlayOnline Game Launching Service Showed Us a Better Internet Is Possible
By Dia Lacina March 26, 2021 | 3:15pm
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Valheim is intimidatingly immersive—so I’m playing Minecraft instead
By William Hughes March 26, 2021 | 5:00am
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PSA: Remember to mute yourself if you're going to play Call Of Duty during Zoom classes
By Reid McCarter March 26, 2021 | 1:23am
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Swiss Horror Game Mundaun Puts a Fresh Facade on an Otherwise Staling Formula
By Holly Green March 24, 2021 | 3:15pm
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The A.V. Club Twitch is diving into the monochromatic horror of Mundaun
By William Hughes March 24, 2021 | 3:00pm
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The Game.com cometh: The rise and fall of the Game Boy’s weirdest rivals
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti March 22, 2021 | 5:00am
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Happy anniversary to Kirby Super Star, the best game ever made
By Sam Barsanti March 19, 2021 | 5:00am
