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As a promotion for the new Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime, Jones came out with a new “special release” of Nuke Cola Victory. Similar to the Nuka Cola Quantum Jones put out when Fallout 4 released in 2015, this is for a limited time and they are selling out fast. I managed to snag a few...
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Happy 414 Bendy Secrets of the Machine is a free title that was released 4/14, an important number seen throughout the Bendy franchise. As a big Bendy fan myself I was pretty hyped to see a new game was dropping even if it was done so pretty silently. In order to uncover the secrets for t...
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Lara Croft first climbed her way into our consoles in 1996, less than 2 decades later Lara would get an updated look in the reboot from Square Enix and Crystal Dynamic. Simply titled Tomb Raider, the 2013 reboot places Lara in the Dragon’s Triangle looking for the kingdom of Himiko, queen of ...
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Early on in Tom Clancy’s The Division agent Faye Lau points to a building saying “That bar behind that building. Best Whiskey Sours in Manhattan. If we take this city back I’ll buy you a drink”. I’ll do you one better and teach you how to make it yourself. Whi...
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With all games in the Yakuza series I usually categorize them by “The Journey is better than the Destination vs The Destination is better then the Journey” Judgment is more of the latter. Judgment is a slow burn game, it is weirdly paced and can be a slog to get through but I believe th...
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For the SGN’s Video Game Book Club we read The Witcher novel the Last Wish, a prequel to The Witcher book series. It’s a sort of short story collection of Geralt of Rivia reminiscing about his adventures as a Witcher. Each chapter starts off with a “Voice of Reason” which is...
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RIP to a Legend Akira Toriyama died earlier this month of a brain bleed at the age of 68. The legendary animator is best known for Dragon Ball but he also lent his talent to the gaming space, doing the illustrations for beloved JRPG’s like Chrono Trigger and various Dragon Quests. This got...
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For our book and A/V club this month we read Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and watched the film adaptation Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky. Both these works are inspirations for the video game series S.T.A.L.K.E.R. In case you don’t know S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person-sho...
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Remember Heardle? A music-based game where you have 5 chances to guess a song from its intro. During the craze many variations were created. I am particularly fond of video game themed ones, as you may have guessed. I’ve been doing the Sonic the Hedgehog themed one on and off for a couple of ...
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Days Gone, Hours Wasted Days Gone Is an open world zombie survival game. You play as Deacon Saint John, a biker going around and helping people out post apocalypse. The story is really about Deacon, his past and his struggles. While the zombies in this game (known as freakers) are really just t...
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