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I duped a handful of diamonds and some of the dragon parts that I use to make ice or fire hammers. Pushed through the update then after that.

This was showing as 70 Euro for months on all websites here in Ireland but never confirmed on the E-shop.
It feels so scammy for them to be doing it, as at least the other companies have the plausible deniability with blaming the costs of operating with the next generation hardware.

Underwhelming is a kind term for it

Picked up my copy this morning before work. Had a lovely interaction with a woman as we were both wearing hot pink for the occasion 😂

Everyone dumpster diving on April 10th

I'm gonna be so torn between playing this and Elden Ring over the next while.

I can't wait to get my hands on this game over the weekend. It'll be a few weeks of this game followed by Triangle Strategy and Kirby after that.

The arguments here are also hilarious. People are seriously at each others throats over video game reviews. It's not that serious like.
Consume the media or don't consume it, as is your choice. Attacking others for the choice they'll personally make is just a waste of time you could spend playing some games or touching some grass 😂😂

I'm having a lot of fun with it so far. Still early days with it but I just know it's gonna eat my weekend

I've only had one issue so far with it and that's it continuously mistaking my cadence for being in a vehicle.
I'm not a passenger Niantic, I'm just walking at a gay pace 😂😂

@Grandiajet You might have the permissions set to only record when the app is open, as this is the default.

Also for anyone with a Fitbit or other fitness tracking watch, a companion app can transfer this data into your Google Fit app and thus into Pikmin. I have a Fitbit so the FittoFit app syncs it for me

@nkarafo These articles are a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the sheer volume of Animal Crossing and Pokemon SW/SH articles that were posted when those games released. Dread pales in comparison to those haha

I shattered my elbow to smithereens in a bike accident last year and I did the same with the Joy-Cons for the first few months of my recovery.
It definitely helped to use the separate Joy-Cons when my hand was too weak to support holding the Pro controller.
I definitely got lucky that I only lost sensation in the parts of my hand that doesn't need to be doing any button inputs or I'd have lost my favorite hobby

@JnFnRu I was having trouble with him too . I'm looking forward to getting home from work and destroying him later

@Maulbert One of my local shops had them for a tenner and they still couldn't shift their copies.

I've given the game 5-6 hours so far and it's a very charming little game. I can't wait to see how the story progresses.
I'm playing on Switch and there definitely haven't been any bugs at all.

Tried to get this and it caused so much grief the past hour.
I redeemed it in my rewards and it gave a code. I now can't add it to the store cart as it redeemed the points already.
I went to the German store and I was successful adding it there and thought that I was in luck. Now the address finder that's in use on the store is a shambles and I can't even get it to enter a reasonable approximation of my address.

I'm just giving up. No small novelty is worth this type of 💩

I'd give Monster Train an honorable mention too

I still find it so funny that Hatsune Miku came up in our state exams last year in Ireland 😂

I'd all but given up on Nintendo giving us GBA games so I just started emulating last week. I'm trying to be quasi above board so I only downloaded roms for games that are tucked away in storage in my childhood home somewhere 😂

I went on Reddit for a while after seeing no reviews and there are so many issues that people seem to be having with the game across all consoles.
I was so looking forward to this game but it's definitely a hard pass now.

From looking back at a lot of the Gameboy and Gameboy advance catalogue, so many of them were based off TV shows and movies such as digimon, medabots, yu-gi-oh etc.
I always wonder if that presents some difficulties due to IP rights

@khululy "Queer" can be a tricky one for people to pin down in an understanding if you're viewing it from the outside looking in.

With some people, they could be using it as a reclaimed term in order to take back the power of a historical slur. Many minority groups do this in one shape or form.

For some others, they might feel that a strict categorization of Gay or lesbian, etc. doesn't encompass their identity, so queer can become a means to show that their lived experience bisects multiple categories under LGBT+.

For some other people it can also be a way of not strictly outing themselves as a specific identity. I know some Trans people who refer to themselves as queer when talking online to avoid them being hate bombed by people who are vocally transphobic online and who seek out people to harass.

Hopefully this will give you a tiny bit more understanding of the different ways that we use the term .

Depending on the measurement methods used, the average percentage of the population who falls under the LGBT umbrella is roughly 7-15%.

It's not unreasonable to expect that given the fact that there's literally a few hundred million of us out in the world, that we might want to see ourselves in games on the odd occasion where relationships are parts of the driving narratives .

And again, gaming is a for-profit industry. If the market wasn't there for queer narratives then the games simply would not be made as they wouldn't recoup development costs.
Just vote with your wallets peeps rather than using the games industry diversifying as a proxy for your personal views on minority groups

Queer people have always been a large chunk of the gaming population and it's great to see them actually in roles producing and influencing the game industry in so many different ways .

Yes, LGBT themes in games aren't for everybody and yes, each to their own, but these games aren't taking anything away from the literal hundreds of other games being produced each year.

I for one, don't play FPS games, for example. These games existing doesn't take anything away from me. I just play the others.
That's the great thing about choice . We all get to put our money towards whatever games interest us.
If you don't like games with queer folks in them, simply don't buy them. There's plenty of us queers out there that are more than happy to spend our cash

I was actually prescribed video games as a child as a means to train my lazy eye while wearing an eye patch.
Take that, telegraph 😝😂😂

Always happy to add another management sim to my collection

I gave it a couple of hours last night and it's a very cute game so far.

@dew12333 Adding small nominal incentives (A free JPEG here) doesn't affect the types of responses given. This is particularly true in data collection regarding experiences and opinions around products which a participant has already experienced, as in the case here.

It would be a different kettle of fish if they were giving financial compensation for general blind data collection, as then there would be a number of self selection biases that this would elicit.

Every time Nintendo add to Switch online with crappy titles:
"I love her lack of energy. Go girl, give us nothing!"

The colour change thing is probably the issue here that I'm most interested in. It really seemed like it was an odd little feature and to hear that it was actually a bug is fascinating

I'm very happy that I bought this game. Got through to the endgame just a few days ago and there's so much post game content to sink your teeth into. I've not even begun to scratch the surface regarding co-op and PVP as well so I'll have plenty to keep me going.

While not technically tabletop, I sometimes rest my switch on a teddy bear while lying in bed and using a pro controller 😂.
I find that any game involving heavy use of the right stick needs to be done with a pro controller as it's nigh impossible to be accurate using the Joy Cons

I got one of the newer switch models with better battery life when the Animal crossing one was released. There would be no sane reason for me to purchase this model. My money would be better spent just upgrading my SD card from 400GB to one or two sizes up

Finally, a very rare occasion where living in Europe benefits me with the eShop for once

This will be a good kick to get back into it. It was very charming but got crowded out by a few bigger titles coming out and taking my attention.

In fairness, they got off incredibly lightly. There are so many fields where such a leak would carry a mandatory prison sentence on top of a fine.

I balked a bit at the full 60 Euro price initially but after thinking about it, my view softened a bit. If paying full fat will help them to renew the franchise, then I'm all for it

I'd give anything for something like this to come to the Switch. The NES and SNES were just a little before my time so I have zero nostalgia for these titles other than the ones subsequently released to Gameboy.

This is a lovely gesture. I've put in about 40 hours so far and I think I'm only starting now with using items like bombs and demondrugs in my hunts. These games are absolutely packed to the gills with game mechanics to sink your teeth into

I think the safest bet for me is to let Pioneers of Olive time have a few patches and see what some of the DLC brings to the game.
If they do a decent job of fixing it up, I'll then drop the cash but right now, I'm not in a rush to spend 50 quid on a game that needs more work done.

You'd swear that Mario was a death row inmate with how this is being treated

Littlewood is missing from the list. It was delayed for European and Australian release so only available in these regions from today

@FightingFafnir There are links for the games on the article.
They tend to appear directly under the article under the related games tab. Click here and you'll see any screenshots and reviews if they are on the site.
Hope this helps with your future browsing of the site

I've always loved farming and life sim games. I don't really think the genre is reaching the point where it's oversaturated but I think there is definitely a lack of innovation within the genre as a whole in the last while and devs are resting on their laurels a bit.

With that said, a game like Hades blew the roguelike genre out of the water and I think Stardew Valley did the same. It gives me hope that another game could come out that pushes the envelope even further.

Gamestop honestly deserves it's death at this stage. The only point of utility that they still have is when you are buying consoles themselves.
Everything else they sell is sheer daylight robbery. I don't know a single person who would actually buy a game with them as every other retailer tends to have a massively lower RRP.

This is by far one of my favorite Zelda titles. I'd love for them to return to making some of these styles of Zelda games in future

I cancelled my preorder of this as it really doesn't inspire much confidence.

It feels an extra kick in the teeth for them to be selling DLC for a game that is just unfinished and unpolished. I was really looking forward to this too ☹️

Waiting eagerly for this to arrive on the EU E-shop

The Joy Cons look great but by God the game announcement was awful. 60 quid for that game is an absolute farce. I wouldn't have minded if it was similar to the Mario collection but having it full price for just that one game has put me off completely.

It's a very good game and I'm looking forward to playing this expansion this weekend. I didn't mind paying full price for it but if anyone is on the fence, at least Ubisoft are known for having constant sales