GYGO: Trademark Trolls, Pokemon DOn’t, and the Usual Microsoft/Activision Shenanigans

GYGO: Trademark Trolls, Pokemon DOn’t, and the Usual Microsoft/Activision Shenanigans

Another week, another Wednesday! The GYGO crew is going to be going biweekly for a bit, which might mean that I may actually be playing something new next time you hear from me. Ha ha, just kidding, I’ll still be creating a series of island paradises in Tropico 4.

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GYGO: Trademark Trolls, Pokemon DOn’t, and the Usual Microsoft/Activision Shenanigans

GYGO: E3 Canceled Yet Again

Welcome to Get Your Game On! I’m December, your purveyor of gaming news this week. Gather ’round gamers and feast your eyes on: (more…)

February Roundtable: Companions

February Roundtable: Companions

It’s February, the month of ~love~, but love is broad and you know we love to interpret words loosely around here. So, we’re talking companions! What makes them fun? What makes them annoying? Why did 2000s Bioware only know how to write one human sci-fi man? Let’s find out together.

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The Art and Play of Collecting

The Art and Play of Collecting

There was a moment early in the pandemic when I decided I would become someone who could identify birds. At the lake in my local park, I recognized mallards, swans, and some kind of crane, but the trees were full of birds I couldn’t name: tiny black and white striped ones that hopped and whistled, soft gray ones that sang sweetly, blackbirds with bright red racing stripes on their wings. I started taking notes and realized, with a jolt, that I was birding. (more…)

GYGO: Trademark Trolls, Pokemon DOn’t, and the Usual Microsoft/Activision Shenanigans

GYGO: Baby Sonic Is an Abomination

Happy New Year! Welcome, all, to a new decade! I’m honored to bring you the first round of 2020’s gaming news hot off the presses. So let’s start with what’s most important to me: (more…)