Like Jam, NBA Playgrounds is two-on-two arcade-style action. Rather than selecting a team, though, you’re free to choose any two players that you’ve unlocked. From there you’ll enter tournaments to face sets of two-man teams. These ascend in difficulty, concluding with a “boss” team that contains better players. Take them down and you’re on to the next one.
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Mr. Shifty is a teleporting, ultra-strong, silent protagonist who shares the same problem-solving philosophy as Doomguy: kill it until you win. The essence of Mr. Shifty boils down to punching your way through hordes of minions while not dying. Sounds simple, right?
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Griffin held the Astros to a solo homer on Thursday, fanning seven in five innings to earn the win. He looked like a very promising starter for the A’s a few years ago, going 7-1 with a 3.06 in a half season as a rookie in 2012 and following that up with a 14-win effort in 2013 before missing two seasons with injuries. Griffin looks like he’s finally back to that level now, so scoop him up while you can as he’s sure to get a long look in the Texas rotation.
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Things begin with you, as Edith Finch, returning to your childhood home following the death of your mother. She left you a key but didn’t tell you what it opened, so your only recourse is to explore the Finch estate and find what your mother wanted you to see.
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Sometimes it’s difficult to solve a puzzle because the object involved is literally just outside of the screen — as in, you have to walk there to trigger a scroll and there’s no real impetus to do so. You’ll also get in the occasional adventure-game grind of trying to use every object in your inventory to solve a particular puzzle, though Full Throttle isn’t nearly as migraine-inducing as some other titles from the era.
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So, Boston’s rotation will be so much better this year, right? Um, ya… about that. BoSox starters continue to mostly scuffle, ranking 20th in ERA, so perhaps it’s time for some replacement options? Owens didn’t get much of a shot in the bigs last year, mostly because he was rocked in his few starts. But he’s racking up some dominant strikeout rates at Triple-A right now, suggesting that Boston’s compensation pick from 2011 is ready for another look in the Show. We’re predicting Owens could stick if he gets the chance.
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The Walking Dead in all formats has become synonymous with “jerky people doing bad things to nice people.” Sometimes this plays out for a gripping story about humanity. Other times, it’s a bit of masochistic narrative. TellTale’s latest episode is somewhere in the middle, and there are several different variables at play here.
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