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Not to beat a dead horse, but 2017 was a pretty decent year for gaming. And since we got just about every release that so much as blipped on our radars, we went into 2018 crushed beneath a wonderful deluge. A nice problem to have, but it was like drowning in pudding. So as some…
As we strolled through the raucous fourth floor Expo Hall of the Washington State Convention Center, one booth stood apart from the rest. The fourth floor is where you went to find many of the big names in the business: Capcom, Square Enix, Playstation, Xbox, and, of course, Nintendo. The Nintendo booth was marked by…
The Super NES Classic, Nintendo’s latest nostalgia-powered mini console, became available for preorder across half a dozen retailers last week after months of anticipation. Nearly every supplier sold out within seconds of listing the console on their website, despite some of them going up in the dark hours of the morning without preemptive notice. What…
