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Get your barrels and bananas, because this week’s cute post is all monkey business
I may be the big cheese at Cuteness HQ, but I love getting suggestions for what to cover in these round-ups.
What’s your ideal approach to class design and accessibility look like in a game?
I've been thinking about classes in games.
Join us this Saturday for Into the Weirs Episode 2 as we explore a probably not haunted house in latest D&D adventure
Team Blizzard Watch is running a brand-new D&D campaign: Into the Weirs, an adventure set in an original world that world that Joe and I created together.
Can you play Horizon Forbidden West if you haven’t played Horizon Zero Dawn — and should you?
Horizon Forbidden West was released last week to extensive fanfare, especially from those who had played its predecessor Horizon Zero Dawn.
What takes you right out of a game?
I think that for myself, the quickest way to break any immersion I have in a video game is for the music to make literally no sense for a moment.
Horizon’s Dr. Elisabet Sobeck, designer of Zero Dawn and savior of humanity
Though we never once meet her, Dr.
The game demos we think are worth trying during Steam Next Fest this week
Steam Next Fest is a week long event full of game demos -- hundreds of them -- so you can try out a bunch of games before they're released.
The Legend of Vox Machina is impressive and entertaining, but occasionally uneven
I was pretty excited for The Legend of Vox Machina back when the Kickstarter broke records and went from a single animated show to a series, but I will admit to some trepidation as well. Any adaptation of a story into a new medium carries risk, simply because different storytelling mediums have their own constraints.
Who is Shiro Tagachi, the Betrayer? How are his actions still shaping the world of Guild Wars?
In the annals of the Guild Wars games, there are few mortals whose impact on the world are as deep and lasting as Shiro Tagachi, the Betrayer.
How do you deal with an embarrassment of riches in your gaming?
So right now I'm playing Horizon Forbidden West, while also dipping into Cyberpunk 2077's new 1.5 update/soft reboot which makes the game amazing on consoles, while also preparing for World of Warcraft and the upcoming patch 9.2, while also working on my renegade Shepard playthrough in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, while also...
