Monica Phillips

Texas

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10 Best Open World Games If You Hate Open Worlds

2 weeks ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

After the release of Skyrim and a million Ubisoft games, the open-world genre got overly standardized into a melted-together pile of slop where you go to one map marker, then go to the next, and repeat for 50 hours. However, there are a few developers that broke the mold, taking the concept of a huge, freely explorable world, and not forcing you down some linear questline that never feels satisfying.
10 Best Open World Games If You Hate Open Worlds

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Monica Phillips

1 day agoMagnetic Joy-Cons and better graphics make the Nintendo Switch 2 feel like an evolution, but its familiar design and a lack of early exclusive games mean you're OK to wait. After about two days of using the Nintendo Switch 2, my best description is that this is Nintendo's original Switch console, …
Deltarune: How To Find And Defeat The Secret Boss In Chapter 4

3 weeks ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

Deltarune has become rather notable for having a secret boss in every chapter. With Jevil and Spamton in Chapters 1 and 2, and an incredibly obscure secret boss in Chapter 3, there's no shortage of mystery fights. That said, Chapter 4 is no different. It's a far more standard affair than the preceding chapter, letting you reach the secret boss as long as you haven't sealed a fountain yet.
Deltarune: How To Find And Defeat The Secret Boss In Chapter 4

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Monica Phillips

12 hours agoMatty Gray had been scrolling on Instagram when he came across a video he had been trying to find for more than 30 years. It was an old TV report of his late grandma, Peggy Fullerton, playing the piano and being interviewed by BBC Look North in 1981. Mrs Fullerton was a well-known pub pianist in …
Hands-On Preview: Star Birds Brings Automation Out Of This World

3 weeks ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

Many a video game presentation ago, I laid my eyes upon a game from the YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt, which is a charming little collective making some mildly educational, very entertaining content. This game was Star Birds, a colony-building, resource collecting, and planetary exploitation-based game, all in a similar style to the 2D animations that Kurzgesagt is pretty well known for.
10 Best Games Like Outer Wilds

3 weeks ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

Outer Wilds is my favorite game ever made. It's such a unique, unbelievably interesting experience of exploring planets for information that allows you access to places you could always reach. I absolutely love the non-linear exploration and feeling of discovery, and while I've never found an exact match for that in any other game, some games go for a similar vibe.
10 Best Games Like Outer Wilds

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Monica Phillips

5 hours agoPS6 game quietly confirmed, and it's one we've all been waiting forThe PlayStation 6 is still some way off, but that hasn’t stopped many in the industry, and fans alike, from looking towards the horizon of the next …Now10 Best Games Like Pacific DrivePacific Drive is a unique, car-based survival game that is extremely underrated.
Stardew Valley: Slime Hutch Complete Guide

3 weeks ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

There are plenty of structures you can throw onto your farm in Stardew Valley, and out of all of them, the Slime Hutch is one of the strangest. I rarely see any casual player build one. That said, if you're curious, you can delve into the Slime Hutch meta and earn a pretty decent amount of money and various other monster drops, with some bonus combat EXP on the side.
8 Best Seeds To Score Infinity in Balatro

3 weeks ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

If you want to score infinity in Balatro, you'll find it's not easy on most random runs, as most seeds don't give you the potential elements you need in order to cruise past the 1.80e308 score required. I will be ranking these on how easy it is for the average person to get Naneinf, as well as how fun it is to do so, and how quickly you can get it done. Don't expect to be getting any of these finished in just a few minutes, though.
40 Things To Do To Prepare For Deltarune Chapters 3+4

1 month ago | dualshockers.com | Monica Phillips

Deltarune has been in development for a long time, and after four years of waiting, the content in the game is getting doubled with the release of Chapters 3 and 4, meaning we have work to do. Toby Fox made Undertale with the idea of locking you out of content based on your choices, and Deltarune got that same treatment, though it's to a lesser extent.