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Heat: Pedal to the Metal Board Game Review

Heat: Pedal to the Metal is something extraordinary -- it’s a table-top racing game with an actual sense of breakneck speed. The designers achieve this both through the brilliant deck-building mechanics, and also with clever mechanisms that accelerate the actual process of play. In fact, Heat might be the best ...
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Monkey Island Meets Monty Python In ‘Lucy Dreaming’, Launching Next Month

Featuring classic '90s point-and-click gameplay.If you've finished Return to Monkey Island and are simply itching to dive into another point-and-click adventure, then good news, because Tall Story Games' Lucy Dreaming will be launching on Switch on February 28th, 2023.Described as a mix of Monkey Island, Monty Python, and Blackadder, the ...
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Forspoken Purple Magic guide: How to get the most out of your spells

Forspoken is finally available on PS5, and it’s time to show off your wicked cool magic-slinging combat skills to the world.  You’ll learn a lot of different magic types during Frey’s journey, but Purple Magic will be with you from the beginning and remains a great tool throughout the game ...
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Have You Played… Qbasic Gorillas?

Fun story: I didn’t know what Qbasic Gorillas was called for over 20 years. As a kid, we would refer to it simply as “The Banana Game”. I had to rely on my Dad to play it, as only he was able to access an unfathomable portal called “DOS”, summoning ...
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Hogwarts Legacy Discussion Banned From ResetEra Forum Site Over J.K. Rowling Controversy

Discussion of Hogwarts Legacy has been banned from popular forum website ResetEra due to the controversy surrounding Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.As reported by PC Gamer, ResetEra general manager B-Dubs has released a statement from the moderation team that bans all mention of the Harry Potter-universe video game on their ...
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This forgotten point-and-click adventure is getting an “official” sequel 35 years later

Back in the days of 1987, fantasy point-and-click adventure Shadowgate was notoriously deadly. The type of thing that fell very much into the 'touch anything and you're dead' bracket of early adventure games. Getting eaten by sharks, burned to death by a dragon, and the awkward fate of being dragged ...
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Wanted: Dead – Exclusive Hands-On With This Bonkers PS2-Era Throwback

I didn’t know that I wanted to be a katana-wielding police officer in a cyberpunk version of Hong Kong who fights a giant spider tank and then eats five bowls of ramen, but that’s what I got with upcoming slasher/shooter Wanted: Dead, and I haven’t been able to put it ...
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Random: Zeldathon Runner Beats Ocarina Of Time Ganon By Throwing Ruto At Him

Fin-ish him.The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is probably one of the most popular games for speedrunning. One of the many well-known tricks in the game is that Ruto, the Zora princess you need to rescue from inside Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly, has a hitbox if you throw her. As ...
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New Nvidia GeForce driver preps for Forspoken, Dead Space remake, and DLSS 3 upgrades

There’s a new Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver out, and for once it sounds pretty interesting – especially if you’re lucky/rich/unhinged enough to have dropped megabucks on one of Nvidia’s megabucks RTX 40 series GPUs. The 528.24 WHQL driver is mainly aimed at tuning up GeForce graphics cards for imminent ...
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The Lord of the Rings Returns to Netflix Next Month

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is finally coming back to Netflix in the U.S. on February 1.As reported by GameSpot, Netflix announced the return of all three films on Twitter (below), meaning The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King will ...
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