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8 Games To Play After Final Fantasy 16

During my time with Final Fantasy XVI, I kept thinking about Final Fantasy VIII, not just because it’s probably my favorite Final Fantasy, but because there were some genuine synergies between these two FF games. Maybe a lot of that had to do with the fact that the main battle theme of FFXVI literally sounds

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Disney Kills Iconic Dragon After Fire, Show Delayed Until 2024

Disneyland Park’s popular Fantasmic! special effects show is delayed until 2024 following an April incident where its Maleficent dragon animatronic caught on fire. The Snow White animatronic will not return when the show resumes next spring, though Fantasmic! will continue to prominently feature a battle between Mickey Mouse and the dragon, Theme Park Insider reports.

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Disney Illusion Island Review: Snappy, Pretty And Fun

Disney Illusion Island isn’t technically a Mickey Mouse solo adventure, as it features Goofy, Donald Duck, and Minnie Mouse, too. But after nearly a decade without a proper Mickey Mouse platformer in the vein of popular games like Castle of Illusion or Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, we’ve finally received the next best thing: Disney

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Trying Out Double Dragon’s Attempt At A Hades-Style Makeover

From the outside, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons looks like everything I’d want from a retro revival of the classic arcade beat-em up series. It’s a 2D side-scroller that remixes the linear progression with roguelite elements and packages the whole thing with an appealing pixel art presentation. Too bad it doesn’t all add

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Netflix’s Next Castlevania Anime Promises A Bloody Good Time

On Thursday, Netflix unveiled a brand-spanking-new trailer for its upcoming Castlevania spin-off series, Castlevania: Nocturne. A Saucy Romance Game Where You Play As Dracula Castlevania: Nocturne, which takes place long after the fourth season of Castlevania, follows Richter, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades. Fans of the Castlevania games will know Richter from

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Maha Festival Co-Director’s Favorite Omaha Spots for Live Music, Tasty Refreshments and Vintage Shopping

Rachel Grace is co-director of Maha Festival, an annual two-day celebration of music and discovery happening July 28-29, 2023. Video by Noelle Agenor Visit Omaha caught up with her at Slowdown in North Downtown to discuss the Omaha music scene, her favorite pizza parlor, how she likes to spend

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Nickelodeon’s Smash-Bros. Gets Sequel That Looks Bigger, Better

SpongeBob SquarePants, Garfield, and April O’Neil are ready to fight each other and other famous cartoon characters once more in the newly announced sequel, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. It launches in late 2023. The Week In Games: System Shock, Street Fighter 6, And More The original Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl was released back in 2021 and

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Our Favorite Cosplay From Anime Expo 2023

Lady Tsunade wears a pretty simple outfit in Naruto, but that only makes it harder to nail in cosplay form. This is perfect, and her makeup is impeccable. I have to know if she used the drag queen technique of blocking her brows to get Tsunade’s tiny little brows, or if she just went whole

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New Elden Ring Patch Makes Backstabs More Powerful

Screenshot: FromSoftware / Kotaku Elden Ring developer FromSoftware issued an update for the open-world role-playing game on July 27, making a few important adjustments to its PvP meta, along with some more general balance changes. On Twitter, FromSoftware noted that players should “apply this patch to continue playing Elden Ring online.” The Week In Games:

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Barbie Games Changed My Life, Now They’re Gone Forever

I didn’t consider myself a serious “gamer” until I started playing Barbie makeup games on my parents’ desktop in 2003. I knew in my growing soul that I was destined to play them because their host sites, including Flash game candy store GirlsGoGames and the official Barbie site EverythingGirl, had “girl” in their titles and

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