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Screenshots of work-in-progress games let us imagine visions of things we’ll never play. Kamek is coming to Mario Kart Tour. If this news doesn’t move you, well, I get it: here’s a minor Mario character coming to a spinoff mobile game that already has 125 playable characters.
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And a few others worth mentioning. This is probably the part where I should make some deep, sweeping statement about the effect of the pandemic on my psyche in 2020, as told through the lens of my gaming habits. Ah, perhaps games like Miles Morales and Persona 5 demonstrate my
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And also my pick for the best game to play on the toilet. I understand why I didn’t do a list last year, but in hindsight, I’m more than a little sad about it. Last December I left my job of 14 years and flew off to the
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A new front in the eternal war. Two weeks, two legendary game companies, and two very different ways to play classic video games. Nintendo is following up last year’s NES Classic with, you guessed it, the SNES Classic: A mini version of the console that plugs directly into the
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Loving the unexpected direction of Super Mario Odyssey, but where’s the Virtual Console? For gamers, the highlight of the year is June, when the industry gathers in Los Angeles to show off all the latest games at E3. I haven’t been to the show as often as I’