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Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons can seem very intimidating at first. This guide is intended to help people start playing tabletop RPGs without any prior experience. It might also help some people explore new games or strengthen their existing campaigns. Don’t be intimidated! Much of the tabletop RPG community is very welcoming to new […]
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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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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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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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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 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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In case you haven’t heard, the Slay the Spire devs recently released a new game, albeit a free one made in three weeks as part of both a game jam and a protest against Unity (the game was made in Godot). Even with those caveats, it’s straight up a lot of fun, and as the
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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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A few years ago, a little mobile game called Fallout Shelter came out and blew everyone’s mind. Here was a free mobile game that was actually meant to be played as much as the player wanted, with none of the forced timers or paywalls that then plagued (and still plague) most mobile games. Sure, Bethesda
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KartRider Drift is Nexon’s latest entry in their series of kart racers, and it’s a lot of fun for anyone who doesn’t have a Nintendo device that they can play Mario Kart on. KartRider Drift also has the benefit of being cross-platform, meaning you can play the same account on your computer and your phone
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