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Nintendo Switch: The Cost of Portability

Nichole Johnson - February 5, 2018

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Nintendo’s Region-Free Policies Have Created Unintentional Discounts

Kyle Rogacion - January 8, 2018

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The Dark Hilarity of Morkredd
Morkredd is interesting because its monochrome aesthetic and the menacing dark that players must avoid contrasts cleanly with how much I laughed playing it. You’d expect a game with this kind of aesthetic to be tense, and it is, to an extent. But with two to four player co-op, it’s usually another person who causes […]
Lost Ember : Most Adorable
Lost Ember has some of the most adorable animals in games I’ve ever seen – especially the wombats. And to make it better, you get to play as these cute critters. Beginning as a wolf, you meet a strange spirit who seems to be seeking out memories from his past. You, too, have fragmentary flashbacks, […]
Knights and Bikes Preview: Rough and Tumble Fun
Knights and Bikes is nostalgic for the 80s – but not in the sense that it’s riddled with cheap pop culture references. Instead, it focuses on childhood, friendship, and how it felt to get the freedom of your first bicycle. The game follows Nessa and Demelza (and Captain Honkers, their pet goose) as they tear […]
5 Years and 5,000 Stories
This here post marks the 5,000th story published on Cliqist. To the casual reader that’s not necessarily a big deal, but to me it’s mind blowing. Since launching in August 2013 Cliqist has gone through countless design changes, nearly a hundred staff writers, and more than a few coverage pivots. Through all of that we’ve […]
Decoding Dialect in Inkle Studios’ Heaven’s Vault
I usually try to avoid comparing games to other games, but when Inkle Studios’ Art and Code Director Joseph Humfrey called Heaven’s Vault “Guitar Hero but for linguistics,” it made a lot of sense. Blending sci-fi and history, the game follows archaeologist Aliya Elasra and her robotic companion, Six, as they explore the ruins of […]

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Nintendo Switch: The Cost of Portability

Nintendo’s Region-Free Policies Have Created Unintentional Discounts