Video Game Review

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Play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for the aesthetic, if nothing else

Peak Web February 20, 2018

By: Natasha Tar In November 2017, Nintendo released the free mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, and it was one of the motivators that got me through finals. I had been looking forward to it, since the other Animal Crossing games across consoles are usually entertaining. For those who’ve never played one before, you start most Animal Crossing games by arriving in a place that’s inhabited by talking animals. From there, depending on the game, you can alter the place by completing tasks for the animals, planting stuff, decorating your house, and creating monuments and amenities. They’re simple games to…

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MiniDAYZ is not for the faint of heart

EIC February 3, 2018

By: Alex Bloom This sandbox zombie survival game put out by Bohemia Interactive takes many of the elements you would associate with console games and manages to distill them into a mobile-friendly format.      In MiniDAYZ you start off…

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Redungeon is a mobile game that gives new life to a boring genre

EIC January 25, 2018

By: Alex Bloom This 8-bit, retro-style mobile game by Eneminds takes a simple concept and gives it a lot more depth than you would expect. At first glance it seems like another Temple Run re-skin as you play a character…

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Slime Rancher: sell poop for fun and profit

EIC August 2, 2017

By: Vincent Justin Mitra In this off-the-beaten-path game full of action, adventure, and strange but cute creatures, players take on the role of Beatrix LeBeau, the new owner of a ranch in an area of a distant planet known as…

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Mass Effect: Andromeda is a promising, but not perfect, sequel to a beloved series

EIC May 16, 2017

If you had the chance to start over in an entirely new galaxy, would you make the most of it? Or would you make the same mistakes you made before? For Mass Effect: Andromeda, the answer is a bit of…

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