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Mecha Break’s player creation marketplace is incredibly cool, but painfully limited

Despite the fact that you don’t see much of your character in Mecha Break, the PvP mech shooter has a god-tier character creator, which allows you to tweak everything from your pilot’s height and hair color to the length of their fingers. This character creator is supplemented by the Matrix Marketplace: an in-game store where […]

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You don’t need to be Critical Role in all of your D&D games

Dungeons & Dragons owes a lot of its current popularity to “actual-play” shows, where podcasters or YouTubers play the popular tabletop role-playing game for fans to enjoy. Acquisitions Incorporated, created by Penny Arcade, was a pioneer of the genre, but today the format brings one show immediately to mind: Critical Role, created by voice over

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Get a Taste of Vice City with the Unofficial Grand Theft Auto Cookbook

It’s still unclear when Grand Theft Auto 6 will be released, but a cookbook based on the franchise launching in October might whet fans’ appetites. Written by Jarrett Melendez, who also penned cookbooks based on the Persona and Borderlands franchises, The Unofficial Grand Theft Auto Cookbook: Street Eats and Luxe Treats imagines what dishes might

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is a better music discovery tool than Spotify

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is out now, and with it comes a wave of early 2000s nostalgia. Developer Iron Galaxy’s pseudo-remake perfectly recaptures the joys of grinding around airports while peppering in some new skateparks of its own. More crucially, it brings back some of the greatest punk rock bangers to ever

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Shark Dentist combines two phobias into one ridiculous roguelike

It’s shark season, and nobody knows that better than Alice Games, the developer behind the upcoming marine dentistry simulator, Shark Dentist: an aptly named horror roguelike in which you play — you guessed it — a shark dentist. Despite its rather amusing title (“Shark Dentist” absolutely sounds like the kind of show you’d find airing

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Ghost of Yōtei brings back Kurosawa Mode, adds new presentations inspired by more great Japanese directors

Sucker Punch Productions shared an extended look at PlayStation 5 game Ghost of Yōtei on Thursday during Sony’s Yōtei-specific State of Play. It offered future ghosts more details about Atsu’s weapons, her journey across Ezo, and new and returning presentation modes. Ghost of Tsushima’s Kurosawa Mode was a wonderful homage to the great Akira Kurosawa,

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 is only half a remaster (and that’s great)

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 is both a bolder and more conservative sequel to its 2020 predecessor. In the nearly five years that have passed since Vicarious Visions remastered Pro Skater and Pro Skater 2, new developer Iron Galaxy has stepped in to remaster 3 and 4, adding a few ideas of its

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