toys
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Hot Wheels Unleashed Devs On Making 2021’s Most Surprising Racing Game
1Italian studio Milestone is known for racing sims. MotoGP, MXGP, Ride, the World Rally Championship series — that’s all Milestone. Hot Wheels Unleashed, the surprise hit arcade racer featuring Mattel’s iconic toy cars racing through physics-defying loops and making heart-stopping jumps, is about as far from a hardcore simulation as you can get. We spoke…
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Creepy Final Fantasy XIV Doll Costs $1,393 But The Nightmares Are Free
Final Fantasy XIV is a wonderful game, with a compelling storyline and gameplay mechanics that transcend the MMO genre. But for the last few weeks, the excitement of logging into my account and working on quests has been coupled with the dread of again coming face-to-face with a banner advertising a super expensive, super unsettling…
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12 Fantastically Complex And Mostly Pointless Lego Great Ball Contraptions
There’s a peculiar subset of Lego fan that doesn’t spend their time building perfect replicas of iconic cars or elaborate brick-built model railroads. They instead create Great Ball Contraptions, or GBCs, for short: complicated contraptions that do nothing more than move tiny balls from area to another.
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LEGO: Builder’s Journey Is Very Good, Very Chill
There have been loads of LEGO games before, some of them trying to replicate the sensation of playing with the real thing, others just using the bricks as set dressing for some very funny licensed platforming. The latest one (well, latest on PC, anyway), LEGO: Builder’s Journey, takes a slightly different approach, and I love…