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The Decline of Strategy Guides Just in 2018, one of the largest strategy guide publishers, Prima Games,announced that it would no longer produce physical strategy guides. The company has now transitioned to creating digital strategy guides and game news. Unfortunately, this doesn’t come as a surprise for most gamers, who no longer user physical books as a reference while gaming. Back in the days when famous cheat codes and video game secrets were around, it was handy to have a game guide....

The Truth Behind “Hard” Games We all know that older games are harder. I’m talking about games likeContra,Ninja Gaiden, andBattletoads. You can’t tell me that you didn’t want to rip out your hair when playing those. I can understand why the developers back in the day made arcade games painstakingly difficult. Theywantedyou to put more coins in that machine. In their eyes, the more times you got a game over, the better....

What Exactly Are Visual Novels? You can think of visual novels almost like choose-your-own-adventure books—however, visual novels aretrulyinteractive. A visual novel’s story is commonly told through text-based conversations with characters, and sometimes with animated videos. Most visual novels have an anime art-style, as visual novels are most popular in Japan. Visual novels don’t involve gameplay. The majority of your time is spent reading and clicking through rounds of text. A visual novel’s characters often take the form of sprites that are placed onto a series of backgrounds....

Blade Runner Movie vs. Book: Similarities Despite being a movie adaptation of a book,Blade Runnerdoesn’t share too many similarities with its source material. In bothBlade RunnerandDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who hunts down androids for the Police Department. In the book, Roy Baty (not Batty as in the movie) is the android leader and Rick is infatuated with an android called Rachel. Aside from a few broader plot details—like Rick hunting down the androids in an abandoned apartment building, the androids being called Nexus-6, etc....

1. Dry, Humorless Script I haven’t found myself laughing atBorderlands 3like I did with the previous games in the series. Humor is a quintessential part ofBorderlands, and the newest addition lacks it completely. The game makes an attempt at comedy that only appeals to teenagers, not veteran players. The previous games contain a lot of dark humor and allusions to pop culture.Borderlands 3does a complete 360 in this aspect. It turns more mature humor into something I’d find funny if I was in middle school....