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The Last of Us II

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MISHAWAKA – The news of The Last of Us II’s un­for­tu­nate de­lay has had a mixed re­cep­tion from fans. The leak­ing of game footage on­line has had Sony scram­bling to block videos.  De­spite be­ing out­side my usual range of re­view, this de­vel­op­ment has re­cently caught... More »

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An­i­mal Cross­ing: Not as New Hori­zons

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MISHAWAKA – Yet an­other re­view of An­i­mal Cross­ing is on the hori­zon, as that is all I have played in the in­ter­ven­ing week of self-iso­la­tion.  Yes, I am still play­ing An­i­mal Cross­ing: New Hori­zons, and still hav­ing a great deal of fun do­ing so. Keep your eye-ro... More »

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Re­view: Nin­tendo Di­rect Mini

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MISHAWAKA – Mar. 26 saw Nin­tendo re­lease one of its minia­ture game pre­sen­ta­tions ad­ver­tis­ing all the news sur­round­ing the com­pany.  Though it has­n’t been a long time since the last Nin­tendo Di­rect, fans have been clam­or­ing for one for quite some time; this is ... More »

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An­i­mal Cross­ing: New Hori­zons

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MISHAWAKA – The pop­u­lar an­i­mal-themed life sim­u­la­tor game has fi­nally ar­rived on store shelves and is ready for play­ers to jump right in.  First and fore­most, I would like to make it per­fectly ob­vi­ous that I is­sued a shame­ful and de­hu­man­iz­ing squeal upon my re... More »


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Bethel Es­ports: One Step For­ward, Two Steps Back

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Es­ports, oth­er­wise known as elec­tronic sports, are com­pe­ti­tions re­volv­ing around video games. This field of com­pe­ti­tion be­gan with Atar­i’s 1980 “Space In­vader Cham­pi­onship” and is grow­ing quickly for its rel­a­tively young age, so much so that Bethel has taken a... More »

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Be­hind the Screens: Con­sole Wars

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MISHAWAKA – Sony’s and Mi­crosoft’s “next-gen” gam­ing ma­chines have found them­selves at odds year af­ter year, and in 2020 they seem to be at the start­ing line once again. With the up­com­ing re­lease of both the Playsta­tion 5 (PS5) and the Xbox Se­ries X, the work ... More »

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Book Re­view: “First They Killed My Fa­ther” by Loung Ung

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Loung Ung had it all– two lov­ing par­ents, warm din­ners, and a house full of sib­lings. Al­though her fam­ily was­n’t the rich­est in the neigh­bor­hood, they cer­tainly weren’t strug­gling to put food on the table, ei­ther. But at the end of the Khmer Rouge’s reign, she... More »


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Movie Re­view: Zootopia

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MISHAWAKA- Dis­ney has played a ma­jor fac­tor in the de­vel­op­ment of most of our lives; it has in­spired princesses to be­come the war­riors and in­formed princes that there is more than just beauty. Dis­ney has taught chil­dren for decades the im­por­tance of lov­ing one... More »

New In­for­ma­tion Re­vealed About New Hori­zons

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MISHAWAKA – “An­i­mal Cross­ing: New Hori­zons” had its own ded­i­cated Nin­tendo Di­rect this week which re­vealed a boat­load of new in­for­ma­tion.  Many Nin­tendo fans and gam­ing fans in gen­eral are un­fa­mil­iar with the “An­i­mal Cross­ing” se­ries, prob­a­bly be­cause it looks... More »

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From the Asst. Ed­i­tor

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Salu­ta­tions, Bea­con Read­ers!  Con­grat­u­la­tions—you are hold­ing in your hands the first print edi­tion of the Bea­con this decade! You should re­ceive three print edi­tions this se­mes­ter, so keep your eyes peeled for those in the com­ing weeks.  Ad­di­tion­ally, you can... More »

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Tak­ing Small Steps to a Health­ier Lifestyle

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MISHAWAKA – Play­ing video games can be both a hobby and a pro­fes­sion; how­ever, since both hob­bies and jobs take up size­able por­tions of an av­er­age per­son’s life, it would be a good idea to bal­ance out those rather in­ac­tive hob­bies or pro­fes­sions, like video ga... More »