For two years now, I have been producing weekly issues of the Icebox. I have been playing Smash for far longer, however. The game has been a core part of my life ever since I was five years old. Now, I have the wonderful opportunity to compete and lead a team into battle as part…
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The Icebox: Presenting Smash 101
Posted on 22 April 2025.
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The Icebox: How to play Snake in Smash Ultimate
Posted on 16 April 2025.
A lot of people hear me talk about Smash often, and some even ask me about what exactly I do and why it is impressive. The answer to that is not simple, but I figured teaching how to play Snake would be a great place to start, just to show how complicated he is. For…
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The Icebox: How to play Snake in Smash Ultimate
Posted on 16 April 2025.
A lot of people hear me talk about Smash often, and some even ask me about what exactly I do and why it is impressive. The answer to that is not simple, but I figured teaching how to play Snake would be a great place to start, just to show how complicated he is. For…
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The Icebox: Presenting Wilkes Gold Mine
Posted on 02 April 2025.
Local tournaments for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are not new to the area of Northeastern Pennsylvania. There are weekly tournaments taking place in Stroudsburg, Scranton, Carbondale, Hazleton and now also here on Wilkes campus. In today’s issue of the Icebox, I will tell you all about the “Wilkes Gold Mine” local tournament. This tournament was…
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The Icebox: Playing Venom in “Marvel Rivals”
Posted on 21 February 2025.
It is clear that the game “Marvel Rivals” has taken the world by Storm…or Winter Soldier, or my favorite: Venom. You see what I did there? Anyway, with all of the different options in this game, there are yet some characters whose best strategies are to be discovered. One of these might even be the…
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The Icebox: Enter: The Nintendo Switch 2
Posted on 23 January 2025.
In this emergency issue of the Icebox, I must bring up the big event that happened last week. At long last, Nintendo has announced the successor to its groundbreaking Nintendo Switch, labeled with a “2” to mark the very first time that an ordinal number was used to describe a Nintendo console. For several months,…
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The Icebox: Reviewing mobile game “Pokemon TCG Pocket”
Posted on 04 December 2024.
It has been a while since the last Icebox review, but not long enough to have missed the release of a new mobile game which I believe deserves all of your attention. It is free to play, easy to learn and already very well-known at a global level. The game was released a day before…
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The Icebox: Sony’s “Sinister Six”
Posted on 04 November 2024.
With the finale of the Venom trilogy and the unofficial reboot of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, it seems pretty clear that Sony has room to set up the long-awaited showdown in the near future. The bonus scene in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” indicates that Venom will make an appearance to some capacity in the MCU, possibly…
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The Icebox: Are you Mario Partying Right?
Posted on 23 October 2024.
If you didn’t know, the latest installment of the Mario Party franchise has just been released. It’s called the “Jamboree,” reflective of its ambitious nature of including several dozen minigames and more playable characters than ever before. For decades, Mario Party has been considered one of the most played party games of all time….
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The Icebox: The art of platforming
Posted on 09 October 2024.
Mostly everyone has played a platforming game at some point in their lives. The most common one being any of the “Super Mario” games. You might think that there is nothing too serious about platforming and that it’s just running and jumping. However, the idea that platforming is basic and not difficult is a great…
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