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Hello everyone! It’s the end of another week, or the beginning of another one, depending on how you look at it, and thus it’s time for the weekly roundup!

I’ve got one more week of the day job before a blissful week off. Hopefully my Evercade retro gaming handheld from Blaze will arrive in time for that, because you can expect a bunch of in-depth coverage on that system and its games once it’s in my hands! The Atelier MegaFeature will, of course, continue, but my intention is to provide detailed writeups on each and every one of the games available for Evercade — because in all cases, they’re relevant to all enthusiasts of gaming, not just those picking up the new system.

Anyway, that’s something to think about when we get to it. For now, we’ve got a week’s worth of happy funtimes to get through. So hit the jump and let’s get started!

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Why I Don’t “Review” Games

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I have a few things lined up to write about, but I saw an interesting discussion online earlier today, so I thought it would be something worth talking about.

It’s a discussion that seems to have continued in perpetuity ever since the earliest days of gaming media, so regardless of whether you’re reading this at the time of writing or a few years down the line, I suspect it will remain relevant.

I’d like to talk about why I don’t consider myself to “review” games in the traditional manner — and why, from the very beginning here at MoeGamer, I have not made use of any sort of summative system such as percentage scores or star ratings. Let’s talk about that!

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Hello everyone, and I hope you’re all still surviving during these strange times in the world.

As you’ve seen, I’m just continuing to beaver away on stuff here just as I’ve always done, so it’s business as usual here on MoeGamer. I hope I’m at least providing some entertaining and informative reads and watches to take your mind off things right now!

Let’s check out what you might have missed in the last week or so.

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Good morning everybody! Sorry this is a day late, but I was up until 2am finishing Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm; I’d rather foolishly believed I’d do this “afterwards”. Oh well!

Anyway, it’s been a busy week as always! Lots to catch up on if you’ve been busy — although chances are if you’re being good boys and girls and Staying At Home, Protecting the NHS (Or Local Equivalent) and Saving Lives, then you haven’t been that busy lately. Although my wife is finding time to hammer large holes in our house during her working day. She claims she has a “plan”. I’m staying out of the way.

Err, that aside, let’s catch up on what you might have missed in the last week. Hit the jump to find out!

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It’s Our Birthday!

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Yes, it’s April 29 once again, which means that I am a year older — 39 this time around — and so is MoeGamer!

Yep, this happy little nook tucked away in a corner of the Internet is six years old today, and over the course of those six years it’s been a gradual process of learning, growing, changing and adapting until you have what you see before you today. And doubtless the next six years will continue to see gradual change and evolution here without undermining the fundamental mission of the site: to celebrate our fantastic hobby of gaming, and particularly those parts of it that go overlooked or underappreciated.

For those interested in the story of how the site came to be in the first place, I invite you to enjoy this retrospective that I penned on the site’s third birthday. For today, some musings on why I do what I do, and why I feel independent creators like me continue to do important work.

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Hello everyone! Hope you’re all staying home, staying safe, protecting the NHS, mixing drinks and saving lives like we’re all supposed to be doing right now.

I have, of course, been continuing to beaver away at the various things I’ve been working on, and indeed later today I’m recording some more videos for you to enjoy in the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, though, let’s catch up on what you might have missed in the last week!

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Good evening! Hope you’re all doing well and have survived another week cooped up at home with all those video games you haven’t beaten yet.

I’ve been getting in some good gaming time; I beat Final Fantasy VII Remake, am making good progress on Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm for the MegaFeature, and have found some time to tinker with Level-5’s excellent Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold too. There’ll be more on the latter when I’ve delved a little deeper into it for sure!

For now, though, let’s take a look at what you might have missed in the last week!

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Good afternoon! I’m super-late with this one this week, I know, but the bank holiday weekend threw me off completely. Still, here we are now.

It’s been another week of lockdown, and I’ve been not-so-secretly enjoying having a government-mandated reason to stay inside, particularly now the weather’s gone A Bit Hot. I also spent most of my four-day weekend playing Final Fantasy VII Remake, which I should beat in the next couple of days and subsequently write about.

In the meantime, though, let’s look at what you might have missed last week.

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Morning all! I didn’t find time to put together the usual weekly roundup yesterday as a result of 1) cleaning up cat poop in the garden and 2) playing a game for (paid) review. But here I am now!

Patrons will know what game I’m talking about; the rest of you will hopefully see my review of it a little later this week over on Nintendo Life, plus a more in-depth write-up here on MoeGamer as has been the case with the last few games I’ve covered for them.

In the meantime, then, let’s take a look at what you might have missed last week!

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Good morning! And welcome to another week of quarantine. I hope you’re all holding up okay and have plenty of video games to keep you occupied. Heaven knows I do. I’ve been preparing for this my whole life!

As you might expect, being cooped up in the house hasn’t slowed me down one bit, as MoeGamer and Atari A to Z are both still going stronger than ever. The Atelier MegaFeature is progressing well, too — I should actually beat Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny this evening, so I can actually be slightly ahead of schedule, too! Wahoo, as Mario would say.

Anyway. Let’s catch up on what you might have missed in the last week. You have plenty of time to sit and read right now, after all!

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