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The Nintendo Switch is great. But it’s actually greater than you know. Here I present five things you didn’t know your Nintendo Switch could do. Call them Nintendo Switch Easter eggs, tips, tricks, secrets, whatever. They are fun, and that’s the important point. Let me know in the comments below if you’ve experienced any of the Nintendo Switch’s secret capabilities.

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Cyborg Ninja Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Hey future Caleb, in your year of 2078 are you still paying $60 for a video game? I hope not. And I don’t think you should be paying less. In fact, I think you should be paying more. I, present Caleb, should be paying way more. If future game publishers have been able to maintain profitability at a $60 price point–a price point that hasn’t changed in over 20 years–then I have to assume one of two things. Either loot boxes, other microtransactions, DLC, day one patches, and ports from previous console generations aren’t just the norm, but are in fact themselves rife with loot box loot boxes, nano transactions, day zero patches, and nostalgia motivated DLC ports not of games but of the installation progress bar. (more…)

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Nintendo has announced Toy-Con which is part of Nintendo Labo, a Google Cardboard meets Lego educational experience that promises to be really, really cool. Imagine making a fishing pole accessory for your Nintendo Switch out of cardboard. Or even a Nintendo cardboard piano. Both will be possible. But imagine the possibilities of making your own cardboard accessory. (more…)

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Limited Run Games just announced that they are bringing Saturday Morning RPG to the Nintendo Switch. Why is this important? I’ve been reading a lot about a business’s “why” as evangelized by Simon Sinek, and it make me think of Limited Run Games’s decision though an unexpected lens.

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Does my introversion guide what video game genres I Iike to play? This question interested me so much that I sent out a survey that attempts to find any correlation between video games and personality types. Watch to find out what I learned. (more…)

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A person who goes by Fractal Tetris Huracan has announced that she plans to marry the video game Tetris. I’ve got some thoughts on this, thoughts that I spew out as a drive around town during my lunch break.

Huracan is an objectum sexual, which means she loves objects the way most people love other people. I suppose I cannot blame her. If I were to love an object, it would most certainly be a video game.

Read more about Fractal Tetris Huracan and her engagement.