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E3 2019: Creature in the Well is a stunning, original take on dungeon crawlers

There’s one word I wanted to avoid while talking about Creature in the Well, the new game from maverick developer Flight School Studio: pinball. Even the studio rep speaking to me about the demo afterward seemed to tiptoe around it. They’ve been trying to emphasize action-RPG, dungeon crawler, hack and slash. Not pinball. Because when you mention Creature

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Nintendo President speaks out against video game censorship

It appears Nintendo will no longer censor their first or third-party games, according to a recent shareholder Q&A session. Just days ago, Nintendo’s 79th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders featured a Q&A session where their stance on censorship was highlighted. One question seemed to allude to Sony’s recent controversial censorship policies and queried Nintendo’s position

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E3 2019: Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars hits a vein full of strategy history

Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars, the new game from Palindrome Interactive and Kalypso Media Group, hasn’t lit the world aflame since its somewhat muted reveal. It might not be the best strategy to introduce a brand new intellectual property with complex mechanics and deep, intersecting gameplay systems via a minute-long animated cinematic. It’s a shame too, because

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