The main character is forcibly enrolled in a mysterious school managed by an adorable mascot. His allies die one by one as they’re all forced to defend the school from strange, alien-like beings. Wait, this sounds familiar. This almost all seems like the Danganronpa series, except Takumi, the main character, isn’t trying to break out of the school. He’s not forced to solve mysteries surrounding his school and his classmates, either, to survive.

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What is Metal Gear Solid Delta?

Wasn’t this covered in your basic training? Metal Gear Solid Delta is more officially known as METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER, which, if the title didn’t clue you in, is a remake of what is arguably the greatest Metal Gear Solid game of all time: MGS3: Snake Eater.

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Honestly, that’s most players’ experience, unless you’ve watched hours of lore videos on YouTube. Elden Ring‘s story is provided via item descriptions, environmental clues, and, yes, the occasional conversation with NPCs. It’s easy to miss, and even easier to not cohesively piece together. Hence the god-tier work of the YouTube lore videos.

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Nikki was just a girl looking for the perfect dress for a ball. But upon discovering a beautiful red dress, a portal opens up, and she’s taken into a different dimension. Brought to us by developer Infold Games, Infinity Nikki will have us save the world, fulfilling our fantasies of running around flower fields wearing flowy dresses while doing it.

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International players have been disappointed by the apparent whitewashing done to characters from Natlan, a region inspired by South American and African countries. Natlan references the gods of the indigenous Yoruba people from Nigeria. It takes inspiration from Latin American, Hispanic, and Aboriginal Australian cultures in lore and architecture. And yet, the featured playable characters have no drop of melanin in sight. Even the archon (god) of the region is light-skinned.

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I say “almost” all accounts because, in the early days of its release, some outlets listed the DLC’s reception as “mixed” because the conversation around Shadow of the Erdtree became dominated by players saying the game was too hard.

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While you fight your way through the multiple ridiculously difficult bosses that await you in the Land of Shadow, or while you’re trying to parse through the game’s notoriously difficult lore, perhaps you’ve thought, “I’d sure like to just watch this.”

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The teaser depicts a stage, bleak and grimy, captured by a grainy camera. Suddenly, you hear static, and a piano plinks as a person with a trenchcoat and a smiling paper bag mask suddenly appears center-stage. The image is interrupted by several very quick close-ups before he disappears and you see three Japanese characters in the middle of the screen. They spell out the title of the video: “Emio,” or “smiling man.”

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What can a time-traveling gunslinger possibly do to influence England’s future? A lot, apparently. You will be bringing shotguns and sniper rifles into historical sword fights and building the empire you want. Basically, you’ll be making England into the sandbox of your own ambitions.

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So, what is Bloomburrow? It’s the 114th expansion card set to be released in MTG‘s running history, and will bring a total of 281 new cards to the game. Each of these cards will also have its own special foil version released as well. The storyline for the expansion pack will be a bit more whimsical, almost Disney-like, as the anthropomorphic animalfolk of Valley must team up to take down the Great Night Owl and their Calamity Beasts to save the world.

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There have been layoffs after layoffs after layoffs in the games industry, with the worst offenders being mega-companies like Microsoft, who buy smaller studios and scrap them for a tax write-off. We’re talking over 10,000 jobs worldwide just this year.

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If you want to get kidnapped again—I mean, play Mystic Messenger again—it’s still available on the App Store and Google Play. No new characters have been added to the game since V and Unknown, but events still happen in the game.

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Lidia, I understand wanting to arrive fashionably late, but you’re haute couture at this point. Just get here.

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What’s Phantom Blade Zero about?

Phantom Blade Zero is described as a semi-open world RPG. There will be loot to uncover and forbidden combat skills to discover. If the spooky vibe and brutal combat didn’t clue you in, it’s totally a Soulslike. Despite what the title would have you believe, there are lots more blades than “zero.” A quick peek at the gameplay trailer and you’ll see katanas. Axes. All sorts of edged weapons to bury into the faces of your foes. And they don’t look all that phantasmal either. They look like cold steel. Awesome.

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Hoyoverse, the company responsible for the hit gacha game Genshin Impact, announced Zenless Zone Zero in May 2022. The new game will be published on July 4, 2024.

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10. Titanfall 2

Titanfall 2 is one of the more recent game-changing revolutionizers of the genre. Set in a hard sci-fi future, the human race has taken a page out of the mecha anime playbook and decided to equip its military personnel with fancy AI-run mechs called Titans. Your mech? A big, hulking cinnamon roll named BT. You spend the game running and gunning Mirror’s Edge style and then jumping into the cockpit of your bulletproof buddy to put the hurt on a renegade mercenary group. While the gameplay is top-notch, the real star of the show is the buddy cop robot x human drama at the heart of it.

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As I travel through the land of shadow, talking to Miquella’s followers and hearing about how nice he supposedly is, the question that keeps popping into my mind is: “Am I going to have to kill this guy?” It’s not the first time while playing Elden Ring that I’ve worried that my player character is actually the villain.

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1. NERF Fortnite SP-L Elite Dart Blaster

If there’s anything that my little cousins will respect me for, it’s the copious amounts of NERF firepower that I am soon to possess. This NERF Fortnite SP-L Elite Dart Blaster is at the top of my arsenal. After all, it’s ELITE. It’s not for cutesy little dart battles, it’s for winning dart VICTORIES. ROYALE VICTORIES. Just look at this thing, it looks like something that was designed by a government contractor for tactical purposes. Move over, Raytheon; NERF is cornering the market.

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I feel sorry for Max. It’s odd that another one of her friends is dying yet again, and Max is the only one with the power to prevent the tragedy. It was bad enough that she was forced to choose between her hometown and her best friend in the first game. Will we be damned with the same painful decisions this time around?

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That puts players in an interesting position when approaching the DLC. Some games, like God of War: Ragnarock, have DLCs which happen after the main story is over. Other games, like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, released their DLC after most of us had finished the game, and while the DLC absolutely would’ve made more sense to do over the course of the normal progression of the game, we did it anyway and had a nice time.

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