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Dark Aether’s Top 7 Games of 2023

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Depending on who you ask, 2023 was either the best or worst year for video games. Or to be precise, 2023 was a good year for playing video games, a bad year to be covering games media with job uncertainty on the rise, and one of the worst years for game developers and the industry with multiple studios and companies reporting layoffs at an alarming rate. Unlike that other award show, it’s difficult for me to look back at the year as a whole and not see the cracks that have begun in between several of the biggest games that will undoubtedly come to redefine the video game landscape once more.

NBA2K23 Wants Your Money And Time (Part 1)

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Note: I originally started writing this article with the idea that it would be a one and done. I did not anticipate that a) I would have material for two articles and b) the game would exceed my expectations on how unscrupulous it is. This article concentrates more on the microtransactions aspect and the second … Read more

Dark Aether’s Top 10 Games of 2022

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Salutations Internet dwellers and welcome to my 6th annual Game of Year Awards. For my regular readers, you may have noticed I decided to publish this one last rather than first this time — I had a lot to say about the anime one! Despite the extra allotted time I gave myself, I didn’t have too much … Read more

OPEN FORUM: Quick impressions on CORAL ISLAND

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Coral Island HD Wallpaper

Hey it me Novi. Last night I started playing Coral Island. I backed it on KickStarter and I can definitely say its great so far. You may get the best experience if you wait on it though. I just put about 4 hours in and the first festival was not complete. It would have been … Read more

Gamer Diary: New Pokemon Snap

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Gamer Diary: New Pokemon Snap

I remember when the original Pokemon Snap came out for the N64, all the kids I knew were super excited. It was the first Pokemon game in 3D, and while people were hoping for a game that featured 3D battles, the game was extremely popular anyway. It was a novel premise to photograph Pokemon in … Read more

Gamer Diary: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

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Gamer Diary: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

Capcom has something of a love-hate relationship with its Ace Attorney fans. Admittedly, it’s a very weird franchise. A series of visual novels where absurdly named attorneys battle over equally absurd trials that throw all semblance of legal procedure out the window. But it works, dammit, and the fans of the series crave each new … Read more

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