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This Week's Pairings: Horizon Zero Dawn

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Horizon: Forbidden West is out hopefully sometime this year, and with that I thought it’d be a nice time to play through the original Horizon: Zero Dawn with a special drink pairing. This week’s pairing will get you all geared up to fight giant robot dinosaurs in a post-post-apocalyptic Colorado.

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Nintendo Sure has Gotten Away from their “Blue Ocean” Approach

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Eiji Aonuma announced today that the long-anticipated Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed again, this time for almost a whole year. This kind of delay will likely only hurt the final game’s prospects. It wasn’t all that long ago that Nintendo was one of the few global behemoths that did things their own […]

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Pairings: Devil May Cry 5

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Devil May Cry 5 has an interesting legacy behind it. Somehow the series has endured despite multiple set backs, which everyone _usually_ attributes to the moody, Christopher Nolan meets My Chemical Romance 2013 reboot. Though many fans forget that this already happened with Devil May Cry 2, which was a bit more like Christopher Nolan […]

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What We’re Playing – April 2021

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Just started with Control last week. I avoided this game until I got my PC fixed, which ended up being a bad call in hindsight. But in foresight, it ended up working out when Sony announced it as part of PS Plus. I’m a big fan of PS Plus, having gotten into several games like […]

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Sony’s Decision about The Last of Us Remake Should be a Reminder about why “Crunch” is still a Big Problem

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If there’s one story that’s prevalent in coverage of the games industry, it’s the idea of “crunch.” For those who might not know, “crunch” is what happens when game studios, usually high-profile ones like Bioware or Naughty Dog, under a deadline, frequently have their employees working 90-hour weeks, putting aside all other commitments, and even […]

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