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If you have any gamer friends who still aren’t sold on the Animal Crossing experience, here’s just the ammo you need to convince them: Danny DeVito Island is an actual thing that exists. As absurdly popular as Animal Crossing: New Horizons has proven to be (it’s now Japan’s best-selling Switch title ever), the fact remains that this is a franchise you either click with or you don’t. It’s a slow-paced, super chill gaming experience, aimless by its very nature....

Over the years, Nintendo has really embraced the idea of fashion in their Animal Crossing games. From the designable custom shirts in the original Gamecube title to the more advanced (in relative terms) shoe and facial accessory options of later installments, there has been an obvious progression. Now, it seems the developer is truly stepping up its fashion game with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, as players now have the option to wear something as timeless as the paper bag....

A lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans were surprised by the recent Sanrio collaboration, introducing the game’s first batch of new villagers along with a haul of exclusive new items. When Nintendo announced that the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sanrio collaboration amiibo cards would be making their way to the west, many fans began to wonder if the cards would bring more new content to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While the Sanrio amiibo cards have been available for some time in Japan, scanning them into Animal Crossing: New Horizons would only unlock a few promotional in-game posters....

June is Wedding Season in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! With this new, sunny month comes a new event to participate in and several special items and DIYs to unlock. This list will walk you through how to earn each and every one. On the first day in June that you visit Harvey’s Island, you’ll be introduced to Reese and Cyrus. They are a married couple looking to take anniversary photos. The player is tasked with being their photographer (since Harvey is kind of a flake)....

Unlike most game announcements these days, Respawn Entertainment took a completely different path when it simultaneously announced then launched its latest game, Apex Legends. The plan clearly paid off as the battle royale title has not only managed to rise to the top of this crowded genre but it continues to outpace all of its competition by hitting new player milestones sooner. Even with all this success, the first month hasn’t always been a smooth ride thanks to various issues that have arisen and a constant stream of leaks that continue to plague the shooter....

If you thought you could wait until the end of the season to grind out your Apex Legends season 2 battle pass, think again. Redditor u/K_U did a breakdown of the new experience system and discovered that you are actually punished for trying to grind out the battle pass in a short amount of time. This is due to the way that the new system essentially hands you easy levels each week through the weekly challenges, but then slows down massively once you have completed all the challenges for the week....

Released between 2012 and 2014, The Hobbit series created quite the buzz around fandom communities and fantasy book buffs. First of all, they took the word “series” to heart, even though they were working off one single book. The Hobbit was written before Lord of the Rings, as Tolkien wrote the story for his young children. It’s a pretty simple story about bravery, greed, and adventure. Bilbo is employed by a bunch of greedy dwarves whose greed and desire for gold is many of their undoing by the end....

Becoming a parent changes everything. Suddenly it’s not just about you anymore. Now there is another being who is wholly dependent upon you, not just for food and shelter, but also love, support, protection, discipline, education, and almost literally everything. To say it’s a huge responsibility is simplifying things. It is arguably the biggest event that will ever happen in your entire life. There aren’t a lot of kids in the Star Wars movies....

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Action games today let players become what action movies can’t - action heroes! Thankfully, games like Devil May Cry 5 or even The Division 2 ensure their players dictate the flow of action. Sometimes, games like Ghost of Tsushima also show that the greatest moves come with painstaking training. Regardless, these games continue to make players look like Grade S Badasses, be it against demons, fellow agents, or other fighters. As such, it sucks to see great action get discontinued or cancelled, especially if they have great potential....

This week, Bungie is set to give players details about how it plans to improve the systems in Destiny 2. From the endgame to rewards, Bungie knows that it has a lot of work to do, and the first steps towards making Destiny 2 better will start on Wednesday’s livestream. Previously, Bungie only intended to show off gear from the upcoming Curse of Osiris DLC, but then director Luke Smith assured fans that he and the Destiny 2 development team would address improvements as well....

It has been five long years since Bethesda released Fallout 4, the latest single-player installment in the popular, post-apocalyptic franchise. The gap between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 was seven years, so hopes are we will see a new game by 2022, which is not that far away now. What that new game might contain is a complete mystery to players at the moment, as Bethesda has not even confirmed a new Fallout game is coming....

With its faster download and upload speeds and lower latency, 4G is simply better than 3G for many things you might want to do with your phone or tablet device. We rely on being constantly connected to the internet, whether at home or out and about and our smartphones and tablets are used for much more than calling each other. Indeed, if you tot up all the times you use your phone for different purposes, you might be surprised to find out just how little of that is spent talking to somebody in comparison with checking social media accounts, playing with connected applications, browsing the internet and many more activities that require a constant data connection....

For a brick and mortar retailer with the slogan “Power to the players,” GameStop is ironically facing a crisis of ever-diminishing energy. The juice (and morale in its staff) have all but worn thin, and gamers? They’ve moved on to far more powerful, impactful, and sustainable enterprises that give them a reason to stay; a far more reasonable value than a $10 estimate on a used game bought new no less than a month prior....

Regardless of which entertainment medium they take place in, sequels are a tricky thing to pull off successfully. There is the expectation to deliver more of the same elements that made people fall in love with the original, while simultaneously adding new ideas to the formula to keep the experience fresh. The Last of Us 2 had sky high expectations after the universal acclaim the original release garnered, and while it brought home several Game of the Year awards, it wasn’t without controversy....

Fans have been waiting for the arrival of The Last of Us: Part II with bated breath, but the copy that arrives on store shelves might be a tad bit different than what was originally planned, according to the game’s narrative lead. The Last of Us: Part II is one of the most anticipated games of 2020, jumping right back into the action of 2013’s The Last of Us. With the sequel only a few days away, Naughty Dog narrative lead Halley Gross spoke to Sector (via Sirus Gaming) about the game’s story and how it adapted over time....

Just a few days ago, Microsoft revealed an extended gameplay trailer and a release date for the upcoming Age of Empires 4 during the Xbox Games Showcase at E3. Now, even more information is being revealed about the real-time strategy game. During Thursday’s Xbox Extended Games Showcase, Relic Entertainment revealed that the final two launch civilizations would be the Holy Roman Empire and Rus, which joins the already announced Chinese, English, Mongols, Delhi Sultanate, Abbasid Dynasty and French....

The life of a video game journalist is incredibly difficult. Each morning I wake up, sit down at a PC, and type about video games I have played, video games I would like to play, and video games that almost certainly only exist in my head. I am also blessed (burdened?) with access to dozens of video games at a time, and when you have so many to play, a pattern begins to emerge....

A couple of weeks ago, my boss sent me a message about Alpha Protocol - specifically that I should play Alpha Protocol. He’s got pretty good taste in games, so I ordered a physical copy that I thought would be backwards compatible with my Xbox Series X. It isn’t, which is a load of bollocks. Anyway, he said I might write something about Alpha Protocol if I gave it a fair whack and now I’m temporarily borrowing his account to play it on PC....

Look, nobody is going to say that Red Dead Redemption or RDR2 are accurate portrayals of America around the turn of the 20th century, but that doesn’t mean these games are entirely without educational value. An actual history professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville sees these games as a great jumping-off point to dive into some extremely interesting and historically important issues. So he’s going to offer an actual history course later this fall that looks at American history through the lens of Red Dead Redemption....