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Season Six: Spooks Beware!
Halloween began its long celebration in the United States more than a century ago. Its popularity has made it one of the most beloved and entertaining holidays throughout our year. Fortnite’s sixth season has beautifully embraced the spirit of this day with a Halloween themed season! Costumes and monster galore! I believe that this idea for this season was well executed and brings a sense of familiarity and nostalgia however cloaked in a fresh outlook. For example, Fortnite’s map has altered a great deal. Nearing the end of the fifth season, all had believed that the cube was gone and permanently melted into Loot Lake. But the cube has made a triumphant return in season six. Before its great dissolve into the lake, the cube had traveled throughout the map leaving behind seven gravity-weakened domes. The cube’s mysterious ‘anti-gravity’ properties have been the key of the map change.
By Valen Chrostowski7 years ago in Gamers
Choose Your Own Adventure
Since the first days of choose your own adventure gamebooks back in the late 1980s, people have loved being given a choice in their gaming experience. From simple turn left or right, pick something up or leave it or run or fight decisions, to more complex moral questions like buy or steal, free or enslave a person or even disarm a nuke or vaporise an entire town (that one will sound familiar to many a gamer) it seems being given choices in a game helps make the experience more enjoyable. But is it something more than that?
By john harrison7 years ago in Gamers
When a Video Game Character Comes Full Circle
There have been few and far between moments when a video game has absolutely moved me with its events. Moments that come to mind include: Joel's reaction to Sarah's death in The Last of Us, Uncharted 4's ending, and Altair's death in Assassin's Creed Revelations, to name a few. A game has to really deliver on the story end to really make me turn my head and recollect its past events in sadness.
By Malike Sizer7 years ago in Gamers
Weirdest Gaming Characters of All Time
Video games allow us to explore other worlds and realms that would be impossible to access otherwise. As video game graphics have become more and more advanced, the most creative developers have been providing us with wilder and more unique characters. Some of these characters border on the grotesque, while some give "grotesque" a bad name. Still others aren't malevolent at all, but they are no less unusual. Here are ten of the weirdest gaming characters ever to be released on any console.
By Joseph D. N. Kendrick7 years ago in Gamers
Best Soccer Video Games
From the most basic, low quality graphics, 3-move-option games of the 80s and 90s, to the high-tech, realistic, and deeply complex releases of today, the world of soccer video games has long been a popular and exciting one. When watching the World Cup on the television just isn't enough for you and you don't have enough people (or talent) to go play yourself, you can always take a trip down memory lane or buckle in for the newest options with any of these games available. Some classics have withstood the test of time, others are simply some great games with the latest in graphics technology, functionality, and complexity, but all of them are sure to entertain.
By Nicola P. Young7 years ago in Gamers
10 Point and Click Adventures We Miss. Top Story - October 2018.
As time passes, video games are becoming more and more advanced. There is a lot of good that comes from these advancements; games are more complex, vivid, and intricate than ever before. Console games offer controller support, high-definition graphics, and are now even becoming VR compatible. With that considered, we feel that there will always be a place for simplicity in the gaming industry. There are just some classic point and click adventures we miss, that make you think and strategize just as much as modern console games will while providing you with the old school vibe that we all love. Nonetheless, take a glance at some of our top rated point and click adventure games.
By Greg DeSantis7 years ago in Gamers
