We asked these 5 gazette editors about their “Game of the Year”

Gabe
Demon Tower
“I’m not the biggest fan of Night in the Woods, but its pack-in minigame was GREAT- I spent more time with demon tower than the real game!  Like a retro-er Hyper Light Drifter in many ways, a first run at the game might take six? hours while repeat runs might take a half-hour– the game is all about learning secrets and boss patterns.  I just wish it came as a standalone ?”

 

 
Eric Hetherington
Bubsy 3d by default

“didn’t play Mario, didn’t play Zelda, didn’t play Persona, didn’t play Final Fantasy, didn’t play Destiny…. but I did play through all of Bubsy 3d, live, in front of a studio audience.  Did you know there’s a cheat code that makes him look like Snake Plissken?”

 

 
Jack
Yugioh Duel Links
“the easiest it’s ever been to jump into playing yugioh cards with a ruleset that mimics the original and authentic voice acting.  an actual good game”

 

 

Justin
Arkanoid

 

 

 

 

Johnny Cache
FNAF World

“Wow Scott Cawthon can do it all”

 

 

 

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Annoying Orange: A Queer Story Reviewed by a Gay Man

Guest author Adam Hawthorne

Thesis: Annoying Orange and its importance to queer animation online communities through its discussion of LGBTQIA+ politics and subversive queercoding.

AS exemplified by the video uploaded in September 19th, 2016 entitled “HOW2: How to Kiss a Girl!” at the time of 0:15 we see the orange react in disgust to the simple mention of the idea of kissing a woman, responding in a visceral “ewwwwww”. This is indicative of orange’s relationship to women and more specifically his homoerotic realtionship with his deuteragonist Pear. Creator Daneboe is clearly exploring his sexuality through the Annoying Orange series

The animation quality and why it’s important to the process of film making as a whole, it’s kinda revolutionary, in case you hadn’t noticed…..

In conclusion, the orange represents the capitalist restructuring of the abused framework of LGBTQIA+ representation within mainstream animation and goes to show the effects of queer subversion in children’s (or, should I say All Ages) animation. 🙂



ME: talking about how fucking epic annoying orange is

Game of the Year 2020

Eric (gaming)

“Dragonball Z: Kakarot. That was probably the best one”

Jack

Cony 2012 Hawk

Justin

Spellunker Party

Who needs Spellunky 2??

Gabe

Hell’s Kitchen: The Game

I love me a good Risotto (or beef wellington)

Overall GotY

Chudscape 2: Chudnapper

Chudscape 2 builds and expands on the lore of Chudscape, this time placing you as a PROTECTER of the chuds rather than a destroyer. Incredible music and voice acting, everything looks really… good. Easily the best game on dreams (though the same developer’s ‘spin time’ comes close)

Gazette Game of the Year 2018 Awards

“Better late than never,” like our dead grandpa used to say, it’s time for the GOTY awards!!

Gabe
Kuburin Ball 

Kuburin Ball truly has it all: kuburin, ball,  See if you can beat my highscore of 0 coins 😉

Jack
Kuburin Ball

this game is too hard

Eric
Duck Game

Many games came out in 2018, that set new precedents for gameplay, and storytelling, even changing the way we interact with the medium. I didn’t play any of these games, but I did play Duck Game for a few hours on stream.  I think it’s a fair comparison because I played them both drunk, but Duck Game is indeed more fun than Bubsy 3D.  I don’t think there is anything fun about Bubsy 3D.  Look, 2017 wasn’t a great year.

Justin
Pokemon Red

Hey is anyone else still playing these games??  I need someone to trade with

James Harvey
Big Chungus

Big Chungus really came out of nowhere.  it’s hard to assess the year in memes objectively when Big Chungus eclipses pretty much everything.  what kinda game is big chungus?  I don’t know but it features Dante from the Devil May Cry series

OVERALL GOTY
The Quiet Man

Sneaking into our hearts without a sound is this year’s big winner, “The Quiet Man.”  It clearly believing itself to be an art game with its numerous artisinal live-action FMV cutscenes, The Quiet Man seeks to replicate the experience of being deaf by muting every character during its many, really long, conversation scenes.  When it switches to gameplay, it feels like a dream.  Hits don’t connect but enemies fall down anyway, characters float around as you smack them with your floppy noodle arms…  It’s like if Yakuza, was bad.  I’m not really sure what half the buttons do because The Quiet Man goes to extreme lengths to make sure you don’t know anything.  We didn’t get very far because the game soft locked us out during chapter two three times in a row (before later locking us out at the title screen), but boy did we get a tantalizing taste of… The Quiet Man

Check out these Upcoming Super Smash Ultimate Fighters!!

With the announcement of Joker from Persona 5 as the first upcoming fighter, the internet is abuzz with speculation as to the remaining 4 slots.  Luckily, the Gazette has pooled all of its considerable investigative resources to bring you the MOST LIKELY candidates for the leftover positions.

Sora

Wow would you look at this guy??  Fights with a giant key, and could even summon his buddies Donald and Goofy to help him out.  Plus, he has a new game coming out that his developers would be eager to promote.  Square and Nintendo have collaborated before (Cloud) so this absolutely wouldn’t be out of the question- plus Nintendo said to expect more characters like Joker, so another character from a JRPG would fit that bill nicely.

Elf
None other than Will Ferrell’s Elf from Elf, starring Will Ferrell.  When we heard he was in, our minds were just buzzing with moveset possibilities.  B-down could be a chocolate syrup spaghetti eating move that healed all of his stamina.  B-up could make him sing a song!  Being a Shulk echo fighter, holding B would instead let him choose what song to sing.  His final smash would be Peter Dinklage going “Call me an Elf, one more time” followed by “You’re an elf!” causing dinklage to beat up the other players.  Elf would be much larger than Ridley, the largest character in the game.

CJ
A long awaited Grand Theft Auto representative from San Andreas, CJ would take with him the ability to gain and lose weight- eat a bunch of healing items and he gets fat, attack a bunch and he gets skinny.  This mechanic would create a truly unique character

Jack Atlas

Straight out of revered series Yugioh 5ds, Jack Atlas races into battle, bringing his cards and his bike.  In an unusual turn, he would ride his bike constantly and his B-tilt would actually allow him to get off his bike and walk around for a moment, the opposite of a character like Wario.  The rest of his attacks would be card summons, I don’t know

Count Olaf
After two generations of demand, it’s borderline offensive that Count Olaf hasn’t been included in Smash already.  With the abilty to put on disguises and slink around the stage, he’d add some much needed variety to a game solely lacking in Count Olaf.  If Nintendo was REALLY listening, they’d know we want both the Jim Carrey and Neil Patrick Harris versions of Olaf- as separate characters even.  Come on Nintendo, don’t screw this up AGAIN! (pictured, both versions of Count Olaf)

Pepe the frog

The beloved frog meme has only grown in popularity, and it’s time for his shot at the big time.  I can’t see any reason he shouldn’t be included, can you???

Scooby and Shaggy

although they’d just be a skin for the iceclimbers, I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t welcome seasoned fighters Scooby and Shaggy to the realm of Smash Bros.

Evil Cole

Because you demanded it, the Playstation Allstars Battle Royale anti-hero returns, with his signature red lightning.  Without his counterpart, is it possible he’ll get TOO powerful??

Fire Emblem

We all know that they’re just gonna add more fire Emblem shit

Fire Emblem again

who even cares

Gazette Radio 6: Damn, Grandpa thicc as hell

we touch on…

cha-ericatures
darth maul’s legs
Shaq fu the legend reborn
SF4
ligma
alanwagner
sasha baron cohen
sherlock gnomes

and more..!

Gazette Radio 5: The Halloween Kid

The Lodge Gazette is back with this double scoop of Eric and Gabe! In this Episode we discuss::

Foreign animated films
David Lynch Films
Darling in the Franxx
Hellboy movies
predator 2 concrete jungle
Ralph bakshi
The fifth Element
total recall

AND MORE..!

Gazette Radio 4: FUCK grandpa

drop in and see what’s up with eric and gabe
in this this first half of a two parter we discuss

My anime list’s top 20 animes
Made in Abyss
Pingu
My untitled George Lopez Batman sitcom project
Titans
and much more !!

What WILL the nintendo switch look like??

Nobody knows what Nintendo’s upcoming Switch console is gonna look like, but the Gazette brings you the latest rumors, straight from the  E3 showfloor

 

Don’t let the logo fool you, this design is all NX.  Check out the 6-way d-pad!

Perfecting arguably their greatest controller, this mock-up covers the screen with buttons and joysticks so you don’t get overwhelmedNintendo visits their roots for this concept, scaling back to 2 buttons and one arcade stick.

This sleek design pares the controller down to its bare minimum, no frills.  I have a hard time imagining controllers any smaller than this

Perhaps the most realistic of the mockups, this one offers no less than 5 d-pads, and spikes!

It’s impossible to know for sure what the Switch will look like, but I think we’re starting to get a pretty good idea

Jumanji uses success to start new streaming service, “Jumanj-flix”

Will not stream the first Jumanji movie, Zathura, the Jumanji animated series, or Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (until it has ended its theatrical run.)  For now, Jumanj-flix subscribers will have to make due with an unending loop of the trailer to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle– will this be enough to sate their “”jungle fever””???