Chipp Terwilliger It’s an exciting time to be a gamer in Portland. Last week, the city’s newest bar/arcade Quarterworld celebrated its first anniversary with a Saturday-night blowout, and this weekend, the inaugural installment of the Mercury-sponsored Betacon Game Expo will set up shop at the Convention Center, giving the public a chance to experience the […]
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Is It Really A “Coincidence” That on the Exact Same Day Many Portlanders Can’t Get to Work, There’s a Brand-New Mario Game?
I mean, yes. Obviously it is totally a coincidence. But still: Nintendo’s long-awaited Super Mario Run finally came out this morning for the iPhone and iPad, and while it has its obnoxious drawbacks (does Nintendo even know how to release stuff anymore without obnoxious drawbacks?), it’s definitely better than the other game you can play […]
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First Impressions of Final Fantasy XV (Without Any Spoilers) (But With a Lot of Monster Energy Drink)
Samantha Sutcliffe It took slightly longer to build Rome than develop Final Fantasy XV. The game was first unveiled over a decade ago, as a spinoff that was then titled Final Fantasy Versus XIII. After that, we didn’t know much more for years, other than that it would star some brooding dude named Noctis and […]
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The Business of Nostalgia
As Digital Downloads Reshape Video Games, Portland’s Indie Game Stores Strive to Satisfy Retro Tastes
As digital downloads reshape video games, Portland’s indie game stores strive to satisfy retro tastes.
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Happy Anniversary to the Dearly Departed Sega Dreamcast
Wikipedia I’ll admit I’m not a huge video game person, because BUSY SCHEDULE. However, there was one great game system love of my life, and it was the Sega Dreamcast—which if it weren’t cruelly murdered before its time, you effing BASTARDS—would have turned 17 years old today. 9/9/99…it was 17 years today that we launched […]
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Love Pokémon Go? Need a Place to Live? Got a Lot of Money? Read This!
There should be a Venn diagram in which Pokémon Go, housing, and being independently wealthy intersect, right? Well, while we’re waiting around for that, check out this Craigslist ad: While the description doesn’t go into exact detail about what makes it such a good Pokémon Go hotspot, let’s assume your digs will be brimming with […]
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Today in “Now Do You Hate Pokémon Go Yet?”
“Play my game, or FUCK YOUUUUUUU.” The grumbling has already started in earnest, and yet many of you are still playing Pokémon Go with vigor. GOOD FOR YOU. Let’s see if you have the same enthusiasm after reading these stories: Everybody is trying to jump on (and make money off of) the Pokémon Go bandwagon—and […]
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Local Man First in Nation to be “Annoyed as Shit” by Pokémon Go
Doug Brown (pictured left) “annoyed as shit” by what he calls “deranged Pokémon Go players” (pictured right). Courtesy Associated Press PORTLAND, OR— A Portland man has been identified as perhaps the first person in the nation to be “annoyed as shit” by the new popular phone game, Pokémon Go. The game, developed by the Nintendo […]
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Good Afternoon, Pokémon Go News!
We’re nearly one week in, and the phenomenon isn’t showing any signs of letting up. So let’s take a moment to check in with what’s been going on in the world of Pokémon Go… While servers here in the US finally seem to be up and running, trainers in the country that created Pokémon are […]
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Pokémon Go: Where to Catch Portland’s Pokémon!
NOOOOOOOOO. Unless you’ve been living underground like a Diglett for the past 48 hours, chances are pretty high that you’ve encountered Nintendo and Niantic’s new mobile phenomenon, Pokémon Go, in one form of another. The new free-to-play game rolled out to iOS and Android devices two days ago, and the game’s servers have been slammed […]
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Warcraft Is a Terrible Movie, But On the Upside, At Least It Features a Motherfucking Shit-Ton of Orcs
Orcs are a gruff, warlike species of humanoid popularized in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. In Warcraft, a new movie based on a computer game franchise, orcs are gigantic, walking pairs of pectoral muscles attached to improbably large shoulders and tiny heads, from which spring enormous tusks, often chipped or with piercings in them. The […]
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Ratchet & Clank: PlayStation Redux
A Kids Movie That Fits in That Tier Just Below Pixar
A kids movie that fits in that tier just below Pixar.