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Month: December 2016

  • Operation Fateful Encounter

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    “Operation Fateful Encounter” is a new short story set in Tokyo by Hengtee Lim, featuring two illustrations by good ol’ Luis. Found via Canvas.

  • Kawa 2

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    I wrote a post about the Kawa zine last month, and here’s a great look at the just-released 2nd issue, covering places to visit in Yokohama. Found via Canvas.

  • CX Nobeyama

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    Here’s a fantastic photo story for the Rapha website by Tokyo-based photographer Lee Basford (who’s done a lot of cycling-related photography in the past, and whose work I love) covering Rapha’s Supercross series in Nobeyama. Striking shots. Found via Canvas.

  • Let It Die

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    This surprised me. I didn’t know much about it ahead of its release this past weekend, but was definitely excited to give it a try, since I’ve enjoyed a lot of Suda51 games in the past. At first I was really digging the general style of the game and world setup, but then all of…

  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Welcome Amiibo Update)

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    So yes, that big update they released for Animal Crossing: New Leaf a month ago got me to play the game again (something I hadn’t done in at least a year, probably much more). Not only that, but it got me to buy a bunch of Animal Crossing amiibo as well (thankfully that I found…

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider

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    So before I was playing Mafia 3 and Watch Dogs 2, I was playing Rise of the Tomb Raider (the 20th Anniversary edition that was released on PS4), and was enjoying the hell out of it. I quite liked the previous game (the Tomb Raider reboot from a few years ago), and from what I…

  • Mafia 3

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    I was enjoying the hell out of Mafia 3 last month. I’m a fan of the series – and open world games like this in general – and so was happy to get back into an open world retro setting like this. Yes, a lot of the activities end up being you doing close to…

  • Watch Dogs

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    I’d never gotten around to playing the first Watch Dogs, and got access to it about a week before Watch Dogs 2 came out, and so I decided to finally dig in. The weirdest thing was that for a while, I was playing Watch Dogs at lunch time every day (on my PC at work),…