Gamers are a passionate bunch and we are no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful and sometimes strange world of video game news.
This coveted travel mug is the new rare Pokémon card
If you tried to go to your local Target last Wednesday, January 3rd to shop for groceries or perhaps pick up an appliance at a discount, you may have noticed a huge line snaking around the brick building. For historical reasons, a large crowd waiting outside a retailer in the early hours of the morning might have been thought to be a short period of time new Pokémon Set of cards, or perhaps a rare Nintendo bundle. But no, instead the people waiting (and fighting) in line are trying to buy a portable cup. Yes, a drinking cup. -Alyssa Mercante Read more
These are the extremely popular games that you can’t stand
We asked and you answered. Some games and franchises, no matter how popular, are just out of the question for some of us, and we wanted to know which ones just don’t resonate with you. -Claire Jackson Read more
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is an oversized piece of paradise
The head of the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, Masayoshi Yokoyama, said this back in November Infinite wealth was that biggest game still in the series. He described it to Japan Game observation as “a monster-class game that’s longer than anything we’ve done before.” Eep. The series is known for its eye-catching portions of optional content, and while the main stories typically last around 20 to 30 hours, it’s awfully easy to double that playtime by getting sucked into mini-games and side quests. Do you have 80 hours to play a new one? Yakuza Game? I certainly won’t do that! But I’m sure I’ll find it somehow. -Jen Glennon Read more
Kotaku asks: What wildly popular game just isn’t for you?
We all have our favorite franchises and one-off games, be they classics like Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Tetrisor more modern series like The last of us, glorioleor Unexplored Others we enjoy playing, but they don’t become our favorites. And then there are those games that we are so clearly, utterly clear and absolutely certain that they are not for us that we can talk at length about why. -Claire Jackson Read more
Alex Jones Game packs so much stupidity into 48 minutes
Like so many other movements, there is something about the alt-right that is very important to its survival: it obscures everything it believes in with overlapping layers of irony. None of the participants agree in any way as to which aspects are irony and which are sincerely held beliefs, which only reinforces this bizarre wall of gibberish that shields them from any intellectual scrutiny. Yes, some of them absolutely believe that a pedophile ring is being run out of a pizza place in Washington, DC, and would die in the name of the cause. Others, however, laugh at you for thinking that Really One thing the alt-right believes in, you idiot, idiot. Apply the same thing to every other element of their pile of crazy and bigoted beliefs. -John Walker Read more
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