Adventure Time is getting an open-world pirate game early next year (PC/PS4/X1/Switch)
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-12-14-adventure-time-is-getting-an-open-world-pirate-game-early-next-year

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Ryan Reynolds will be playing Detective Pikachu in the upcoming movie.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ryan-reynolds-star-pokemon-movie-detective-pikachu-1065206

http://www.rockman-corner.com/2017/12/mega-man-11-details-from-game-informers.html

Some highlights from the latest Game Informer issue.

Friend Code: Patron's Pulse Special

With no big news and not enough time logged in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 yet, Huber and Bosman join Damiani to spend the hour answering as many Patron's Pulse submissions as we can get to!

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Ubisoft is giving away World in Conflict and Assassin's Creed IV on PC this month.

https://blog.ubi.com/get-two-ubisoft-pc-classics-free-december/

Ben's review is on YouTube. Before you watch, I'd advise reading this comment Bloodworth posted:

"Some users have found the footage at 8:20 to be spoilery. If you want to skip that portion, you can go to 8:42. You can also find the text of the review at https://easyallies.com/#!/review/xenoblade-chronicles-2 We do take care to avoid spoilers, but sometimes opinions differ. -Bloodworth"

In addition, someone in the comments of the r/games post of this review says that 4:10-4:12 contains party member spoilers.

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Damiani tweeted this:

Bandai Namco has announced a "Tales of" broadcast, scheduled for Japan on the 16th.
https://gematsu.com/2017/12/tales-series-22nd-anniversary-broadcast-tales-room-set-december-16

I've been playing Persona Q recently, and I've just started the third labyrinth, but I'm wondering if I should continue. I've been reading through discussions on various websites about PQ and have noticed a lot of similar criticisms aimed at the gameplay, namely:

• The combat system is unbalanced. Mahamo and Mamudo make mob fights a breeze(especially when you combine them with Naoto/Impure Reach), and offensive magic pales in comparison to physical attacks due to the high SP costs and an inability to crit enemies.

• The game starts to drag in the later labyrinths. I see a lot of complaints about the fourth labyrinth in particular.

Rather than playing through the rest, I believe my time would be better spent playing one of the more beloved EO games as I've never played anything from that series before(I'm thinking of starting with the first Untold thanks to a recommendation from @Sheria) and maybe returning to PQ later or seeing how PQ2 pans out.

So I suppose my question is, how do Etrian Odyssey fans feel about Persona Q? Is it worth finishing, or should I bail out while I can?

Newest episode is up on YouTube: Super Mario Odyssey Post-Mortem.

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