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  • My New Exercise Regimen Is A Plastic Taiko Drum Controller

    My New Exercise Regimen Is A Plastic Taiko Drum Controller

    Stuck in bed most days due to an ongoing medical condition and paralysed from the chest down, I don’t have a lot of options for cardio exercise. Hand bikes, weights, and tension bands are boring. You know what’s not boring? Beating the hell out of Hori’s drum controller for Bandai Namco’s Taiko No Tatsujin games.


  • The Xbox One’s New Free-To-Play MMO Is Something To Do

    Launched this week for the Xbox One, Bandai Namco’s Bless Unleashed is a free-to-play fantasy MMO that sprang from the ashes of cancelled Neowiz PC game Bless Online. I don’t know why it was resurrected, renamed, and turned into an Xbox One exclusive, but it’s here, it’s free, and it’s kept me from thinking about…


  • The Year In Fighting Game Championships

    Fighting games have never been as big or monetarily supported as they were in 2019. Every major fighting game franchise had a developer-backed tour leading into a major championship, many featuring some of the largest prize pools of all time. But if it’s never been easier to make a career out of playing fighting games,…