Review: Robo-tea:1cup! is the Gentle and Cute Visual Novel I Didn’t Know I Needed

Review: Robo-tea:1cup! is the Gentle and Cute Visual Novel I Didn’t Know I Needed

robo-tea:1cup!

jo-robo
PC/Mac/Linux
February 14, 2016

A copy of robo-tea:1cup! was provided in exchange for an honest review.

After a stressful year like 2017, sometimes I just need to play a game where the sole purpose is to relax and enjoy a cute story about robots going on tea dates. Thankfully, robo-tea:1cup! by jo-robo delivers on its purpose: to provide a stress-free queer visual novel experience about exactly that. (more…)

Why I Game: Gaming Helps Me Manage My Mental Illness

Why I Game: Gaming Helps Me Manage My Mental Illness

When I finished playing Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, I began considering why I game so much. My gaming has especially picked up since I left my PhD program to write and moved across the country to where my husband is doing his graduate work. I’ve dedicated over 150 hours into Breath of the Wild. I’ve played the first 13 chapters of Path of Radiance at least four times. I’ve beaten New Super Mario Bros. U, played through most of the first Pikmin and Pokemon Sun, upgraded my house fully in Animal Crossing, played all the levels in Pokemon Snap, and seen the betrayal in Tales From The Borderlands. Among other games, of course, and not even counting all the board games and phone games I’ve been playing. (Check out my new favorite phone game if you haven’t already!) I’ve gamed more in the past few months than I have in years.

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VR’s Potential For Meaningful Accessibility: An Interview with Polyarc Games

VR is quickly becoming the next big thing in gaming with more than 1.6 million consoles sold in 2016 and will bring in $7 billion in industry revenue by the end of 2017. This is an industry shift that allows startups to emerge with revolutionary ideas in a new kind of interactive world yet to be defined. One of these companies is Polyarc Games, born of a few professionals from various game development companies such as Bungie and Oculus Rift.

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Get Your Game On Wednesday: Marvel Heroes and the Brain

Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! I can’t believe it’s already October. Here’s your friendly reminder that there’s still time to sign up for this year’s Extra Life Game Day to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. You can be someone’s super hero by playing games for 24 hours and raising money to help kids. Double win! Now on to this week’s news.

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