A Command & Conquer Veteran Explains Why Age Of Empires Stood Out
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After over a decade in in the wilderness, the
Age of Empires is widely accessible once more. It’s partly down to fans who have never given up on
Age of Empires, but also because there’s a lot of old school fans within Microsoft.
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 5th, 2021. We’ve got a few new releases to look at today, and they really run the gamut in terms of quality. There’s also a Mini-View of
Vaporum: Lockdown, a challenging but satisfying dungeon crawler. The most exciting thing going on today is the list of new sales, with Bethesda running discounts across the board. Yes, even for
Skyrim and
DOOM Eternal. We’ve got lists of both incoming and outgoing sales, so do give them a look. Let’s go!
Mini-Views
Vaporum: Lockdown ($21.99)
Vaporum: Lockdown is a prequel that by and large is content to follow in the footsteps of the previous game. Generally speaking, that’s not a bad thing.
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Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck at Home This Week Watch the premiere of Top Chef: Portland Edition, leer at Sketchy People and eat Gabriel Rucker s burger. Updated March 31 at 10:20 PM WATCH: “Top Chef” It s here finally, Portland gets its time in the
Top Chef spotlight. Of course, the glass-half-empty way to look at it is that Bravo s acclaimed reality TV cooking competition decided to come here at a time when COVID was decimating the food scene. But either way, the attention is long overdue. Two of the 15 contestants are locals: Mama Bird s Gabriel Pascuzzi and Soter Vineyards Sara Hauman, while Departure chef and Season 12 finalist Gregory Gourdet will appear as a guest judge. What else to expect? Well, based on the trailer, there will be cameos by Oregon Health & Science University empl
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It s no secret that the Nintendo Switch hardware pales in comparison to the Xbox One or the Playstation 4, even more so when compared to the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. This makes the impossible ports on the Nintendo Switch even more impressive. Games like the Witcher 3, Doom Eternal, Crysis Remastered, and even Ori and the Blind Forest running on Nintendo s hybrid console is a technical feat, despite their obvious visual and performance downgrades. They might not be the prettiest games on the system, but more importantly, they re playable, in both docked mode and handheld mode, where I imagine is how many Nintendo Switch owners spend their time.
Best PC Games to Play with An Xbox 360 Controller
Playing awesome PC games using an Xbox 360 controller is pretty awesome.
The idea of switching to an Xbox 360 controller might seem disconcerting to most die-hard keyboard and mouse fans, but, belief or not, some of the most awesome games made for PC were made to be played with a controller.
In this article, we are going to show you the best options to test out whether you can be a D-pad man, not just a keyboard and mouse aficionado. Please keep in mind that you don’t have to spend tons of cash on controllers just to experience this. You can start out with a simple wired Xbox 360 controller which cost around five bucks.