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Portland-based indie publisher Panic used to bill its adorable crank-operated handheld as a “pick-up and play” solution to the lulls in between playing games on a home console and fiddling with your phone. These days, it simply calls it “something different.” And the truth is, Playdate is both of those …
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Fantasy tales usually start small and work their way to a bigger critical mass. The Lord of the Rings opens with Hobbits dancing around and drinking, before expanding to encompass the world-threatening doom beyond the borders of the Shire. Triangle Strategy flips this whole well-trodden path on its head, starting …
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I’ll cut right to the chase and tell you that the Acer Predator Orion 7000 is easily one of the best gaming PCs on the market right now. It’s clear in everything from the components inside (doubly so when factoring in the jump to DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support) as …
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