My Experience with the FunKey S (Plus Some Tips)

The FunKey S is a multi-console emulator that is a tiny version of the Game Boy Advance SP. Since I’m a sucker for both nostalgia and cute things, I recently bought two of them, and figured it might be helpful to share my experience. I’ll start this post with a brief review of both the […]

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How To Clear Up Inventory Space In Guild Wars 2

Zoomed-in Screenshot of Guild Wars 2 Salvage Kit Description

If you’ve recently started playing Guild Wars 2 (like I have!), you might be running into an issue where your inventory keeps filling up. If you’ve played other MMOs, it might even feel like something’s wrong, or that you’re missing something, since it shouldn’t be THAT hard to keep inventory space free when you’re just

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The Best Language Learning Video Games

Screenshot of Linguist FPS language selection menu

While the last few years have seen the emergence of several great education programs like Babbel, Duolingo, and Rosetta Stone that offer a gamified version of language learning, we are now at the point that there are also straight-up games with actual game mechanics that are focused on language learning. This list collects the four

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Galaxy Trader: A Space Sim For Peaceful Merchants

Screenshot of Galaxy Trader while traveling through space

Outer space has compelled humanity as long as we’ve been humans, which has led to varied explorations of space survival in all types of media, including games. However, many of these games have either been focused on ship-to-ship space combat or FPS combat once you’ve landed on a planet (or both!), leaving pacifists out in

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WildTangent’s FATE Still Holds Up Surprisingly Well

Screenshot of FATE Main Menu File Selection

Back in the mid 2000s, anyone whose family had gotten an eMachines desktop from Best Buy (you can swap out the details to fit your own personal experience as necessary) was soon met with a siren song in the form of the WildTangent Games Launcher, which might as well have felt like an infinite arcade

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Collapsus is the Final Frontier of Block Breaking Games

Screenshot showing Collapsus main gameplay screen

Collapsus is a block breaking/matching game that literally changes the game by allowing you to tilt the game screen in any of the four main directions you want, meaning you can cause each and every block to fall up, down, left, or right as necessary for your strategic moves. The first time I played it,

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I Wish More itch.io Games Included Android .APKs

Screenshot of selected itch.io games that offer DRM-free Android .APKs

itch.io is one of my favorite places to get games, since the revenue splits are the best in the business, the DRM-free versions of games they offer are usually the most consumer-friendly option available, and it’s easier to find games from smaller developers that you might not otherwise have ever encountered. When I first started

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Tiny Civilization is a Huge Achievement in Puzzle Gaming

Cropped Screenshot of Tiny Civilization Menu

I recently found myself with a few dollars in my Steam wallet (thanks to selling trading cards and Counter-Strike 2 drops), which I used as an opportunity to find some hidden gems for cheap. First, I finally added Fallout: New Vegas to my Steam account for a measly $2.49, but I still had some left

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