Preview: JCB Pioneer: Mars – Mars is Harsh and Deadlier than Ever

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At its core, JCB Pioneer: Mars is a survival game that imagines players taking on the role of an astronaut whom has been forced to colonize Mars after their lander has crashed on the planets surface. The game is a unique partnership between the industrial vehicle manufacturer JCB, European astrophysicist Dry. Maggie Lei, and indie developer studio Atomicom. In Early Access on steam, we get to see what the realistic colonization of Mars may look like within the next several years as plans for such an endeavor have gotten underway in the real world.

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MOTHERGUNSHIP is Headed to PC and Consoles Near You

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The last year or so has been pretty spectacular for shooter games. We’ve seen DOOM become a smash-hit with its reboot, we’ve seen it get announced for the Nintendo Switch, and franchises such as Duke Nukem have seen a reemerge within recent years. Indie games such as Strafe and Dusk have certainly proven the interest in fast-paced shoot them up title. Joining them is the upcoming indie game MOTHERGUNSHIP by Terrible Posture Games in partnership with Grip Digital.

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Reader Discussion: What Game Helped You Bond With Friends or Family?

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Over the weekend I sat down and began to watch a Netflix Final Fantasy XIV-themed Japanese drama, by the name of Final Fantasy XIV Dad of LightThis Netflix movie tells the story of a father and son who bond by playing the Square-Enix MMORPG together. The son, to begin their bonding, creates a character in secret on his fathers server, and begins to play with him. As he does, they begin to take on their in-game adventures together, but also as a way to spend time with his old man.

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Opinion: We Need to Talk About PewDiePie and Toxicity

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[Credits: YouTube/Felix Kjellberg]

For years, I’ve followed Felix Kjellberg, whom is more-well known as PewDiePie to the YouTube world. He’s a man that has taken the internet by storm and become the biggest star on YouTube to date. However, in the past few months, he’s been at providing us with some of the most provocative content in his career. Content bad enough popular companies such as Disney and Campo Santo (the studio behind the smash-hit title Firewatch) have dropped him all together. The latter of the two having gone as far as to slap Kjellberg with DMCA take-downs of videos containing their content that is associated with him.

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Review: Utawarerumono: The Mask of Truth – Where No Lies Exist

Pros:
+Ends the current saga with a solid and great conclusion.
+Character development has been highly improved upon since the previous titles
+SRPG elements such as combat have been vastly improved upon and appear more frequently
+One of the most solid soundtracks and voice tracking to date

Cons:
-Quite a few scenes that serve almost no purpose to the game, but instead play out as filler content from the main story.
-Choices seem not to matter when asked to make them.
-Back story explanation to new players could have used a bit more detail and or a video recap that sums up the entirety of the past two games.


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Utawarerumono is a unique series. It’s one that has grown rather popular overseas due to the manga as well as anime adaptions the series has received in recent years, it was only time before this extremely niche title would get a release in the United States, and draw in the Japanese SRPG.

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PlayerUnknown’s Battleground Breaks 1 Million Simultaneous Players

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PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds has been a game that has broken any milestone that previous games have ever ventured out to do. It broke the most active player count at one time and even holds the peak player record for any non-Valve game. The game’s developer has now announced that it has broken a new record of being the most active game to date with more than 1 million simultaneous players playing the game.

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Disney’s Tsum Tsum’s and Kingdom Hearts Cross-Over for a KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ[CROSS] Special Event

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Disney and Square Enix’s partnership is one that is well known to the world. From video games, to manga’s, to comics, to collectible merchandise, KINGDOM HEARTS has taken the world by storm in the past 10 years. Today, Square Enix and Disney have announced a new collaboration that will be coming to the smash-hit mobile game starting today until September 21st, 2017.

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Hitman and Just Cause 3 Have Crossed Over in Hitman: Sniper

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Two of Square Enix’s biggest titles have just crossed over on mobile devices leading to one of the best and most enjoyable smash-ups to date. In the new free update for Hitman: Sniper on Android and iOS, players get to see Agent 47 head over to the Mediterranean republic of Medici, where Rico Rodriguez has already been hard at work disrupting a fascist regime’s operations.

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Roblox and Direct Relief Have Teamed Up for Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

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Photo Credits/Copyright: REUTERS/Rick Wilking

When Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25th, it was recorded as one of the most devastating hurricanes int he history of the United States. As it made way into Southern Texas, much of the region was hit with torrential rains, unprecedented flood waters, and forced evacuations of residents that were caught in the storm. Even now, large areas of Houston, Port Aransas, Rockport, Corpus Christi, and more were absolutely devastated by the damage.

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Take the War to Russia in Battlefield 1’s “In the Name of the Tsar” Update

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Russia’s winters have been known to be some of the fiercest ever known. This hasn’t changed as bone chilling winter winds blow across the Russian landscape as soldiers from opposing sides take to the river valleys as they trek towards the streets of Tsaritsyn. The Russian Army will face off in the Russian Civil War in this latest update, which brings in new maps, a new mode, more weapons, some new vehicles, and a slew of fixes with its launch today.

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