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Despite going into university with the full intention of getting a degree in journalism, I ended up concentrating on film studies and getting minors in both creative writing and sociology. A year of learning to report and being held to strict structural rules about how I could write left me feeling creatively stifled and running for the hills, straight towards the things I’d realised I actually wanted to do. I spent the rest of my time in university writing scripts, stories, and personal essays, plus making films and learning to critique all of those varying mediums in modern contexts....

Quick Links Fae Farmis a roleplaying game with a focus on both farming and life simulation, allowing you to interact with the town and seek adventures on the island of Azoria. It was launched on September 2023 for Windows and the Nintendo Switch and has proven to be rather divisive, with some people loving it and others feeling underwhelmed. Its first DLC was launched in December of 2023, adding more content to the game and shifting the focus more onto adventure and exploration rather than the actual farming aspects of Fae Farm, which is rather ironic given the game’s name....

We all knowDave the Diver isn’t an indie gameby now. Developer Mintrocket is a department of multi-billion dollar behemoth Nexon, and the benefits from that help budgets, promotion, and much more. The other thing we know aboutDave the Diveris that it slaps. Dave the Diver is one of the best games I’ve played all year. From the beautiful pixel art presentation to the disparate minigames that somehow work perfectly in tandem with one another, it’s an exotic fever dream of sushi-serving madness, maximalist to the extreme....

Quick Links It’s All-Star Game time inNBA 2K24, which means we’ve entered Season 4, the next set of challenges, goodies, and updates to the yearly basketball video game entry. There are tons of updates to the game, mainly in the aesthetic and MyTeam arenas, but it’s always worth taking a look at what you can do, whether you’ve been playing 2K24 since it came out or you’re just picking it up....

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2players have been patiently awaiting the game’s first batch of DLC characters, with Mr Krabs, Zuko, Iroh, and Rocksteady already announced as the characters that will make up the first season pass. Fans were pretty disappointed abouthalf of the new additions being characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender, but there is a lot of excitement surrounding the upcoming addition of Mr Krabs. That excitement grew even further earlier this week, as a new leak revealed Mr Krabs' entire moveset as well as all the Spongebob references that his attacks are based on....

Summary Pokemon’sSquishmallowfamily has grown from six to eight viathe additions of Clefairy and Teddiursa. Still exclusive to the Pokemon Center, for now, the Squishmallow pair predictably sold out pretty quickly. Their store pages promised they’d be restocked in mid-December and well, mid-December is here and so are the Squishmallows. Both are back in stock, but they come with a worrying warning for anyone who doesn’t manage to get them during wave two....

Video games and shoes are two worlds that clash and mesh far more than I ever expected them to. Last yearFila’s Sonic shoes caused a stir and sold out immediately- not once, but twice - anda pair of Adidas sneakers designed to look like they were being infringed upon by Spider-Man 2’s symbiotewere also out of stock by the time most who wanted them made it onto the site. We shall see ifPokemon’s latest team-up with Clarks has the same effect as the shoemaker has revealed four new designs in its Torhill collection....

Summary There are so many different kinds ofPokemonthese days that it can be hard to keep track of exactly how many there are in total. It felt like it wasn’t too hard to be familiar with them all a couple of decades ago, but knowing the name and abilities of each one these days feels like a Herculean task. Each generation of Pokemon typically introduces roughly 70 to 160 new creatures to fall in love with as you embark on a new adventure....

Silent Hill: Ascensionis exactly what we all feared. TurningKonami’s survival horror series into a glorified Until Dawn clone isn’t the worst idea in the world, but developer Genvid is tackling it in the worst possible way. The episodic selection of stories will drop every night across the coming days, inviting players to collectively vote on how the narrative will play out It is “free to experience” meaning you are free to contribute, but your input will have less weight than those who pay, and you won’t have access to any of the cosmetics....

More than a year after the launch of the latestPokemongames, trainers will soon be able to embark on the final chapter of theirScarlet & Violetjourneys. The Indigo Disk, part two of The Hidden Treasure Of Area Zero DLC, launches this week, and Pokemon wants to celebrate the addition that will be at the center of it. Terapagos, a brand new Pokemon being introduced via The Indigo Disk, will have not one, but two plushes by the time the additional content drops....

Summary Japanese role-playing gameshave been tugging at our heartstrings for decades. Whether you’ve played a few of them or a hundred, there’s a good chance you have encountered at least one antagonist whose rationale for their bad behavior is at least partly understandable. That doesn’t mean these actions are justifiable, per se, but it can be the mark of a compelling villain to sport similarly compelling motivations. There’s fun in the love-to-hate, utterly-deplorable variety of foil, but there’s thoughtfulness packed into foils whose punches are backed by realistic resentment....

One of the coolest additions toSuper Mario Bros. Wonderis the badges. These are optional upgrades that you’re able to equip to gain an extra ability – such as a grappling vine or a floating high jump. The different abilities of some of the game’s badges are put to the test in the Badge Challenge stages. These levels are designed around its specific badge’s unique mechanic, and they make for some of the most engaging platforming challenges in the entire game....

Summary To win a match inMarvel Snap, you need to have more power in two out of three locations. While that seems simple in essence, it can get tricky to do the math in certain scenarios, which is why Captain Marvel is such a popular card; she decides where to go in order to win. Martyr acts much in the same way, but instead of moving towards a winning position, it goes somewhere that could lose you the game....