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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is the first Quidditch video game in over two decades, giving the fictional sport the proper sports game treatment it's lacked for so long. Despite a noticeable lack of microtransactions available, it comes with most of the trappings of modern live-service games, including an excess of digital currencies--Gold, Moonstones and Winged Keys being the main ones. But while Gold and Moonstoones flow freely as you play, Winged Keys are a lot sparser, and it will...
Is Astro, the star of Astro's Playroom and Astro Bot, a Sony mascot? Nicolas Doucet isn't so sure. While the soft-spoken head of Team Asobi recognizes that the plucky little robot has the makings of a marquee character, and while it's become the face of the studio and even graces its logo, he also doesn't think it's his or the studio's place to say. To hear him tell it, a mascot is grown organically out of affection from fans, not a status assigned by corporate masters. On a recent trip to...
Followers of the Cult of the Lamb can now preorder Oni Press' official graphic novel based on Massive Monster's 2022 breakout hit. Lamb devotees may have already known this, but the upcoming trade paperback was made possible by a successful Kickstarter campaign that generated $684,000. Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse collects the ongoing four-issue comics arc that debuted earlier this year. You can preorder Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse for $18 (was $20) ahead of its December 3...
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is launching in just a few short weeks, putting players back into the shoes of the first game's protagonist, Max Caulfield, on a new adventure that moves her from one US coast to the other. We recently played a 45-minute demo of one of the game's early chapters that shows off her newfound abilities to move between parallel realities with one major difference: In one world, her friend Safi is alive; in the other, she's been murdered, and the killer in the...