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What games have you been playing and what do you think of them? Bonus topic: What game developers are you always excited to see working on a project? Continue reading Weekly Games Thread Waits for the Credits
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss noteworthy franchises from the last several decades of gaming history. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be using the boost to chase down the history of Star … Continue reading Franchise Festival #21: Star Fox
Happy Thursday, Avocadoans. What games are you playing and what do you think of them? With regard to the bonus prompt, what is your favorite introductory area or tutorial sequence? Also, please join us tomorrow in Franchise Festival as we … Continue reading The Weekly Games Thread #2 Is Learning To Play The Game
This was a triumph. I’m making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction, because the winner of the first Avocado video game character is GLaDOS! We were going to celebrate with cake, but… you know. Instead, you’ve … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament Final Result
Video Game Science is back! An Avocado Let’s Play video series! And is even more hastily put together than ever! But now I do some drawing whenever I die to make it more interesting and to, well, do some drawing, … Continue reading Video Game Science: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
128 entered and only two remain. A showdown between two of gaming’s classic female antagonists. Will Carmen Sandiego steal the whole tournament? Or will GLaDOS take the cake? Tournament Statistics: The characters who received the most votes in any match … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Finals
Couldn’t make it to Comic-Con this week? Don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of games to keep your mind off all those autographs you could be getting. Adventure Time: Pirates of The Enchiridion (PC/PS4/Switch/Xbox One) When was the last time … Continue reading New Game Releases 07/17/18
128 entered and only four remain. Results from Round Five: The characters who received the most votes overall was Link, who perhaps faced the weakest competition in Bowser. Unsurprisingly, Bowser was the character who received the least votes. The advancing character … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Semifinals
What games have you been playing and what do you think of them? Bonus topic: What video game character has the best name? What’s the dumbest? Continue reading Weekly Games Thread Has a Name
128 entered, 8 remain. Results from Round Four: Of the top eight vote-getters in the initial nominations, six of those characters remain. The two characters that did not make it to the quarterfinals are Error and Mega Man. The two … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Quarterfinals
We’re about a month late to the party, but that’s never stopped us before! Join me, The Kappa, and Science is Bad as we break down E3 2018. (This episode was edited by The Kappa, as usual.) You can listen … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast Episode #37: Kojima’s Walking Simulator
128 entered, 16 (bit) remain. Results from Round Three: The characters who received the most votes overall was Mario with 75 votes. The character who received the most votes among those who did not advance was Sonic the Hedgehog, who was beaten … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Round Four
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss noteworthy franchises from the last several decades of gaming history. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be assembling all of the information available on the Suikoden series. … Continue reading Franchise Festival #20: Suikoden
128 entered, 32(X) remain. Results from Round Two: The characters who received the most votes overall were Link and Samus at 75 votes each. The character who received the most votes among those who did not advance was HK-47, barely losing his round … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Round Three
Welcome to Thursday, my dear Avocadoans! What games have you been playing and what do you think of them? As a bonus prompt, what game series has been ruined for you and why? Please also join us tomorrow for a … Continue reading The Weekly Games Thread Had A Good Thing Going… Once
128 entered, (Nintendo) 64 remain. Results from Round One: The character who received the most votes overall was Luigi — unsurprisingly, given he also received the most votes in the nomination thread. The character who received the most votes among … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament – Round Two
Summer is starting to heat up, and not just the weather. There are quite a bit of games coming out this week so hopefully you should find something you like, after all what are you going to play at the … Continue reading New Game Releases 07/10/18
Here’s the second half of the first round! Pictured: Characters who will not be appearing in this tournament. To vote in this bracket: Please add an upvote to the character in each matchup you’d like to see advance. Please don’t add … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament – Round One Part Two
What games have you been playing and what do you think of them? Bonus topic: What sidekick/supporting character/villain would you like to see get their own game? Continue reading Weekly Games Thread Wants the Spotlight
You guys nominated a whopping 371 video game characters for this tournament! From that field, exactly 128 characters received five upvotes or more. I’ve arranged them into eight brackets of sixteen, trying to split the characters up by franchise as … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament – Round One Part One
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss noteworthy franchises from the last several decades of gaming history. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be hunting down the most interesting details about the Far Cry series. With … Continue reading Franchise Festival #19: Far Cry
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