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Game of the Year 2017 – SteamWorld Dig 2

Thursday, January 25th, 2018

2017 was a pretty huge year for gaming, with most top games of the year lists needing to stretch past the usual ten to twenty or more just to begin to highlight the genre re-defining games that were released throughout the year.  The release of the PS4 Pro in late 2016 followed by the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One X in 2017 have pushed games both at home and on the go to extremes that would have been laughably impossible even a mere half decade ago.  Nintendo really outdid itself with multiple huge exclusive titles from its biggest IPs and while The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are both excellent games, not to mention some of the year’s other big hitters like Horizon Zero Dawn, Cuphead, Resident Evil VII, Night in the Woods, Sonic Mania, Hollow Knight and Metroid: Samus Returns, there was one game that stood out to us above them all in one way or another — and that game is our 2017 Game of the Year:  SteamWorld Dig 2 (SWD2).

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Game of the Year 2016 – Pokemon Sun/Moon

Monday, January 9th, 2017

While not a banner year for gaming of all kinds, and certainly not a banner year for the world at large with celebrity deaths, political and social upheaval and the murder of an innocent gorilla, 2016 did have a few gaming gems to keep us occupied in our respective disaster shelters.  Many games that were cultural phenomena this year like Overwatch, the new Doom, and Uncharted 4 were technically derivative of games from years past, but their new features, graphics, gameplay tweaks and characters helped them elevate gaming as a whole to new heights.  The same is especially true for our 2016 Game(s) of the Year, Pokemon Sun/Moon.

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Welcome to Jurassic Park

Friday, April 15th, 2016

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While it still may take a day or so for your local DNS caches to sort themselves out, Game Usagi is home and snug on our new server and we’re ready to enjoy games with you at much faster speeds and with the added benefit of SSL encryption.  We have a bunch of Game Usagi Plays videos coming soon, so we hope you enjoy us now more than ever. 😀

Moving Servers, Pardon Our Dust

Thursday, April 14th, 2016

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We’re moving to a bigger Usagi house so bear with us today as we transfer to a server that will make the site even more usagi-fast and more secure with SSL encryption so you’re as safe from Internet foxes (but not Firefoxes, those are good!).  We’ll let you know when the transfer is complete so you can start to enjoy a better than ever Game Usagi experience. 😀

Freedom Japanese Market Candy Box Aug. 2015 – Game Usagi/AMG Opens

Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

“Smiling yellow magician with blue tongue-flavoured candy”
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Logan delves into a candy box courtesy of Freedom Japanese Market.

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Game Usagi Plays: Reborn

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

Game Usagi plays has been on a bit of a hiatus in the last couple of months over frustration with Nintendo’s arcane and inane copyright tagging policies involving Wii U games. Recently we decided that this is probably not going to change in the near future, even though they’ve recently made some steps in the right direction allowing certain Let’s Play videos on NicoNico Japan. So, let Nintendo have their pennies of ad money on our videos and we’ll continue to play some cool and funny video games for you (often in 60fps now) as long as we can.  See after the jump for a few of our most recent videos, and be sure to subscribe to the Game Usagi Plays YouTube channel if you’d like to keep up to date on our releases.

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Game of the Year 2014 – South Park Stick of Truth

Friday, December 19th, 2014

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2014 ended up being a kicking year in gaming, but as in any year one game kicked harder than the rest.  Our expectations were astronomical for the often delayed, thoroughly pedigreed RPG from the evil genius minds of Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Obsidian Entertainment but South Park: The Stick of Truth managed to bust past all of them to easily become the funniest, most charming, and most entertaining game of 2014 for the Game Usagi crew.

In an interview with CVG before the game’s release, Trey Parker said “I just hope we don’t get an f-ing 4 from GameSpot.”, and he did indeed receive his wish as The Stick of Truth garnered a well deserved 85 on Metacritic.  While most people deemed it impossible, the humour and spirit of South Park translated perfectly into interactive form making a game where anyone (of appropriate age) could make themselves the “new kid” in South Park and go on a far-reaching adventure with every great character that graced the series over the years.

The Stick of Truth was one of 2014’s few games that was immediately worth every penny of its launch price — the care and attention to detail that went into every aspect is apparent throughout the game.  If you didn’t have the chance yet to experience this masterful RPG, be sure to check it out soon.  If you hurry, you could even take advantage of Steam’s holiday sale and enjoy it all the more for your savings.

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