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Author Archives: J.L. Hilton
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of livestream viewers
I’ve streamed hundreds of hours of video gaming on my Youtube channel, and I’ve noticed that viewers fall into a few basic categories. Good – These are the best! They are viewers who “like,” subscribe, and sometimes even pledge money on Patreon. They might … Continue reading
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Try-It Tuesday: ADVENTURE TIME Finn & Jake Investigations
After the month of October, chock full of Halloween creepiness and games like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, The Town of Light, and BioShock: The Collection, it was time to try something simple and lighthearted this week. My 13-year-old tried the … Continue reading
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Try-It Tuesday: UNTIL DAWN Rush of Blood
My husband got UNTIL DAWN: RUSH OF BLOOD back when he got the PSVR, but we’d forgotten all about it until I found it the other day, still wrapped in plastic. Such serendipity! The perfect game for a Halloween Try-It … Continue reading
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Try-It Tuesday: THE TOWN OF LIGHT
With Halloween a week away, I decided to try the psychological horror game THE TOWN OF LIGHT. Developed by LKA, it was released for PC in February 2016 and for consoles earlier this year. The setting is based on an actual mental hospital in Tuscany and … Continue reading
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Try-It Tuesday: THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS
Today I sampled a 2016 retro sci-fi game called THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS that pays humorous tribute to such classics as King Kong, Flash Gordon, Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, and the stop-action animation of Ray Harryhausen. This top-down … Continue reading
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Billie Lurk returns in DISHONORED: Death of the Outsider
DEATH OF THE OUTSIDER is the latest game in the Dishonored franchise, developed by Arkane Studios, published by Bethesda Softworks, and released September 15, 2017, for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In this installment, former assassin Billie Lurk rescues her mentor Daud, who … Continue reading
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Try-It Tuesday: JOB SIMULATOR
For this weeks’ Try-It Tuesday, I not only tried a new game, I tried the PSVR for the very first time with JOB SIMULATOR by Owlchemy Labs. In JOB SIMULATOR, it’s 2050 and robots are fascinated by the lives of the humans they’ve replaced. Players … Continue reading
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Try-It Tuesday: THE CREW
Starfish central gaming joined me from the UK via PS4 party chat for this week’s Try-It Tuesday livestream of THE CREW, an action-driving game developed by Ivory Tower and published by Ubisoft in December 2014. I barely scratched the surface, but THE CREW … Continue reading
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