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Steve Bowling
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Reviews Editor @GVG , Previously: Nintendo Life, GameXplain. As seen on: Kotaku, IGN, and your favorite podcasts everywhere!
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Persona 3 looks weird on 3DS
February 10, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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I am so thrilled to share the bundle this year having been a part of the planning and development again!

Full of phenomenal games, all for a great cause. Please consider picking one up 🥰
safeinourworld.org Safe In Our World @safeinourworld.org · 4d
BOOM! 💥 The Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2026 has ARRIVED! 🥳

22 great Steam games (inc. PEAK, Winter Burrow, and more) for just $17.99 / £17.99 / €17.99 - supporting mental health in games 💚

Grab your bundle 🔗 www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/sa...
Promotional image for Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2026, featuring the mental health charity’s logo, a logo for Fanatical, and a series of images from various games featured in the charity games bundle.
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Pragmata looks good on Switch 2!
February 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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That was certainly a Direct.
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Nintendo didn’t just have games, there were amiibo and other cool items on display! Take a look!
February 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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And you’ll get it a year or two after you order it. I’m STILL waiting on Shinobi from them.
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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NYC, I’m here! Drop your best pizza rec!
January 28, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Co-signed. It’s such a unique controller that it’d be nice to play the games with the input scheme they were designed for.
geekcritique.org Josh @geekcritique.org · 14d
I just really wish the controller was part of the package. Like I *want* the NSO accessory anyway, but for that price, having the controller too would really help justify it.

Also the VB controller kicks ass and nobody knows it but me.
January 27, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Hi. I got a sponsor for this video and frankly I’m kinda impressed how cool Raycon was about it lmao
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Imagine shitting on someone for internet points from your 41 followers.
January 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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My year in Nintendo wrap up!
January 14, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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Rate my setup
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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2026 rocks
January 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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I beat Metroid Prime 4 a couple nights ago. 100% items, it took 16 hours and change. It did weird things to my brain, and I needed to write about it. So enjoy this unplanned meditation on the fourth Metroid Prime game.

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Within the first hour of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Samus is imbued with psychic powers. From that moment onward, I spent my 16-hour first playthrough wishing I had psychic abilities, too. Not because I want to move things telekinetically or see into the future, but because I wish I could beam my thoughts about Metroid Prime 4 directly into someone else's mind. Your mind. Maybe I wouldn’t have to talk about this game--because, frankly, I think we’ve all talked about it too much already. Instead, you could know—feel—my experience with the game first-hand. If I had psychic powers, you would know what it feels like to have actively, stubbornly, held Metroid Prime as your favorite game these past 25 years, and the self-inflicted expectations I struggled against in the lead up to Prime 4’s launch. And you would know how it felt for all that to dissolve the moment I viewed an unknown world from behind the familiar HUD of Samus’ visor. If I could share my memories with you, you could trace in yourself the same shape of the emotions I felt while exploring Ice Belt--my awareness flitting between the unease in my gut and melancholy in my chest. The sense of scale I felt seeing the megalithic storm clouds of Volt Forge’s skybox. My surprise that Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano somehow found such an alien electric guitar tone, but also chose to feature it prominently throughout the soundtrack. The familiar compulsion to break every green crystal and return to locations to collect lingering items, long before the game asked me to. The way a single unimportant scan in a Lamorn shrine evoked vivid images of the species’ final hours. How else, than with psychic abilities, could I convey the way the dissipating mist in Fury Green’s Cargo Launcher platform never lost its novelty? Or how it felt to look up from the depths of the Great Mines, see the gray sky peeking through the broken rock hundreds of feet above, and think, “This is all I’ve ever wanted from Metroid.” And if I could invite you into my mind, then you, like me, would also question if the only reason these familiar “Metroid-y” moments meant something is because they’re juxtaposed against my frustrations with the story; my disappointment in the brevity of Flare Pool and linearity of The Great Mines; my lingering apathy towards Samus’ companions and underutilized rival; my skepticism about whether this is the direction I want the series to take, if it continues. You would see how these highs and lows blend uncomfortably, echoing the unpleasant dissonance I felt between the oversaturated orange and purple hues of Sol Valley against the dense, dark, moody atmospheres of the on-foot biomes. Or the ways radio calls and escort missions impinge on segments of sublime isolation and engrossing visual design. Maybe after all of that, you, too, would struggle to resolve these contradictions and distill the totality of this arc into a succinct statement of quality, much I like am. Alas, I do not have psychic powers, so these words must suffice. Written & Designed by Brendan Hesse Proofreading & Feedback - Abram Buehner Special thankt to THE CRAWL Patraon Supporters
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Alright. Let’s start this and see how faithfully I can keep this up! Games I beat, 2026 edition!
January 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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How I’m starting 2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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My awesome wife got me the best holiday PJs ever!
December 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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I’m 81 hours into Persona 3 Reload and I’m afraid I’m about to make it everyone’s problem.
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I forgot I ordered this!
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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First run through Pragmata Sketchbook. This game is going to be amazing.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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dude this figure of end of namek Goku is so fucking cool
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This journey to discover "The Greatest Games of All Time" comes to a close with this video! 25 games, 25 guests, and 3 hours of discussion on what makes every one of these games so incredible. Thank you to @jon.gvg.io for joining me for each and every one of these! youtu.be/wmjmvXfDB4c?...
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Why is this game so pretty!?
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Update: I fast-forwarded.
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Me pretending it’s tomorrow already
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM