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About a week ago, I was looking through Twitter as I do each morning and stumbled across a post from a friend detailing a brand new Kickstarter campaign for the Unofficial amiibo handbook. I had it backed within a few minutes of reading the opening paragraph of the campaign. Here is the link if you want to check it out!

With New Pokémon Snap on the verge of being released later this month, I went back to the Nintendo 64 version to see if it was as good as I remember. While I enjoyed it for about an hour, while nostalgia dripped all over me, I quickly realized it was a somewhat shallow experience that really doesn't hold up well so many years later. This begged the question: why was the original Pokémon Snap so successful? I think I might have the answer, or at least a rational.

It seems that anytime a video game launches in 2021, we are all eager to blow through it as fast as possible. Hell, folks are taking days of work to play their favourite video games for hours on end, to drink up every moment of the story, find every collectible, and more. Unless you plan on fast traveling, Cozy Grove has taken on the Animal Crossing  philosophy that 30 minutes to an hour of gameplay is all that is really necessary per day, keeping you invested in the game for longer periods of time without burning you out within the first week. I've been ...

Today, Nintendo showcased a number of new Indie developed titles that will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in the near future. While not everything on offer was for my liking, I was more intrigued during this showcase than I have been watching others! You can watch my entire reaction to the showcase below!

Within the last few years, we have been blessed by a number of fantastic farming / city building simulation styles. There has been no shortage with the likes of Stardew Valley updates, Story of Seasons, Summer in Mara, Harvest Moon, Littlewood...the list just goes on. Deiland: Pocket Planet - previously released on other platforms - is now trying to break through on the Nintendo Switch with new features and gameplay mechanics. Deiland does things just a bit differently, however, which sets itself apart form the competition. Let's dive in!

About once a year, I begin looking around the Internet for ways to get Sim Golf running on my computer - any of my computers. Sim Golf was one of my favourite simulation titles when I was younger, and I spent hours creating courses, competing in tournaments, and earning cash. With the ability to play that game dwindling, I've been either hoping for a re-release of that title, or something that mimics it, but alas, nothing has been released. Until GolfTopia.

We've been playing around with Dragon Quest 11s on Google Stadia for the last week or so, and are pleasantly surprised with how well this epic fantasy RPG runs on the platform. No updates, quick load times, and no downloads makes the Google Stadia version the premiere version of this title, in our opinion.

Here are the ID@Xbox titles for the week of April 5, 2021.

It's been a little bit now since Google shuttered their internal Stadia studios and opted to create partnerships with 3rd parties instead, and while many saw this as the beginning of the end for Google's cloud gaming platform, the company continues to support their product through fantastic 3rd party partnerships! So what does the future for Google Stadia look like, when you compare it with other services like XCloud?

When Google first announced the nest hub a few years back, I had to have one for my kitchen - putting it in my room as an alarm clock never really crossed my mind, despite many folks doing it. But then we upgraded the kitchen display to a Nest Hub Max, and well...you can imagine how that was a big improvement with the bigger screen. That ultimately pushed the original Nest Hub to my wife and I's room, and while we liked having that, it started to feel a bit short on features and quality compared to other Google products we were adding to our home (like the ...