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Congress = Team Rocket? The U.S. government shut down is a national embarrassment and a hazard to the lives of millions across the country. National Parks are closed, Federal prison guards are going without pay, Government websites containing sensitive information are left unmonitored to threat, the list goes on and on. For some, the worst of it comes today, when they go on the internet to see everyone they know talking about how much they lovePokemon XorYwhile they’re left to gaze at their new incompletePokemon X/YPuzzle Swap picture in sorrow while researching how much it costs to move to Canada....

All you hardcore Destructoiders might remember back in the day this old battlemeandNierostarted having. Well after finding the above image, I thought it was about time I started up the battle again for this lazy Sunday. Your move now Niero. The image comes courtesy ofCreative Worlds. The artist has a plethora of animatedgifs, comics, self made games and flash movies (one that even made the front page of Newgrounds awhile back) on his site....

Game is totally cute with personality to boot “Personally, I love fighting games, and shooters, and violent games in general.” That wasn’t exactly what I thought I’d hear from Yasuhiro Wada when I asked him what types of games he enjoys playing. Friday afternoon, just outside of San Francisco’s Financial District, I sat down with him, along with Akibo Shieh, founder and CEO of Aksys Games, to discussLittle Dragons Café. The game, releasing later this summer, is a lifestyle-shop sim where players control one half of a set of twins as they try to keep a café in business while raising a dragon that is the key to waking their mother from a deep slumber....

As you advance into Power Level four inRuneScape Dragonwilds, you’ll notice items like Padded Cloth, iron bars, and hard leather appearing in your material crafting requirements. No playstyle preference is immune to these requirements, so you’ll need to learn quickly if you want to survive in Ashenfall. The downside? It isn’t initially clear how to make Padded Cloth. While you’ll eventually make workstations like the Smithing Anvil and Loom, knowing how to piece everything together to create this resource is its own separate challenge....

TheElden RingDLC is a tough piece of video game, but thankfully it isn’t completely malicious. The DLC includes more ways to strengthen your character, such as new Talismans. I suggest you find the Spelldrake Talisman +3 inElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtreefor the best magic defense. The Spelldrake Talisman +3 is in a cave along a cliffside near the ‘Castle Front’ encampment Site of Grace. If you have the Site unlocked, you can start your quest for the Talisman there....

The second key inDragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remakeis the Magic Key, and while I’d argue getting theThief’s Keyis pretty straightforward, the Magic Key is less so. Not in a way that you’re likely to miss it, but it’s totally possible to make it more complicated by overthinking things. If you’re ever going to get a ship in Portoga, you need the Magic Key, and this is how you get it....

There are a plethora of Stratagems for players to use to devastating effect inHelldivers 2. While heavy weapons and resupply drops are useful, sometimes the best tool for the job is a slew of shells from the Orbital 380MM HE Barrage on your Superdestroyer. You’ll unlock new Stratagems over time inHelldivers 2as you play more missions and earn rewards from, hopefully, successful objective completions and extractions. While your basic weapons are fine and will net you a tonne of kills and help you support your team, sometimes you need something bigger to throw into the mix, like the Orbital 380MM HE Barrage or aThermite Grenade....

Rock the dragon The past open beta forDragon Ball FighterZfelt a little tumultuous, but ultimately enlightening. After a rough first day, a brief extension allowed a larger swathe of interested Z fighters to get their hands on a couple of matches, training be damned. Even though I was ready to die on a hill about no training mode to explore the beta, the straightforward learning curve made my first couple of matches a breeze to get acclimatized to....

Don’t play games with my heart As I’ve told people many times before,Shenmue IIwas a near-religious experience for me. I remember nearly every minute I spent with it at launch on the original Xbox, and it came at a perfect time in my life when I really needed it. I would kill for a continuation, or even an HD re-release. Earlier today,Shenmuecreator Yu Suzuki tweeted out this mysterious picture, just noting “E3....

Right on the heels of Sony’s recentannouncementthat it is creating another SKU toconfusethe market comes a couple of interviews that Sony hopes will finally clear the air about its stripped down 40GB console: Enter Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony’s American division. Speaking with Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal and a couple suits at theWall Street Journal,good old Jack did the usual song and dance routine that Sony is known for, when asked a few questions about the decision to lower the price point of the PS3, while simultaneously removing the one thing gamers thought they could always depend of getting from Sony — backwards compatibility....

Still a Switch exclusive: crazy, right? You’ll be able to relive yourX-Men LegendsandUltimate Allianceglory years all over again very soon, asMarvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Orderlaunches in July exclusively on the Switch. Nintendo revealed the new release date on Twitter alongside of a look at the official box art, which is very reminiscent ofMarvel vs. Capcom(tag out to pay respects) in all the best ways. The cover gives us a look at some obviously confirmed MCU characters like Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Iron Man, on top of X-Men like Storm and Wolverine....

Love the minimalist take Nintendo has a long and storied history of console editions of varying value and quality. Some of them are super rare, others were produced in bulk. Several are really cool to look at, a few are the tackiest systems I’ve ever seen. There’s going to be another one to judge pretty soon! The publisher has announced thatMonster Hunter Rise, one of the most anticipated games for the Switch this year (so far) is getting its own console and Pro Controller line....

Of all the planes in the multiverse you can explore,Magic: The Gathering Bloomburrowmight just be the cutest, though it’s not without its small horrors. ThisMTGsettakes players to the plane of Bloomburrow, occupied by anthropomorphic animals. While that might not sound like anything new to this universe, it really is. Instead of these animals being the same size and shape as humans, they’re just as small as their Earth counterparts but wear clothes and fineries....