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The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

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The Echo

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Fortnite brings a blast from the past

Jeremy Eichten, Staffer November 21, 2023

The video game “Fortnite Battle Royale” has been a popular video game ever since it was released Sept. 27, 2017. Over time, it gained millions of players across the world, and had become a big part...

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‘Risk of Rain Returns’ to the scene

Serena Bovee November 16, 2023

On Nov. 8, exactly 10 years after the original rogue-lite was released, “Risk of Rain Returns” was released by Hopoo Games. “Risk of Rain Returns” is a remaster of the original “Risk of Rain”...

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The blocks fall into place

John Hunter April 10, 2023

In 1988, entrepreneur and video game designer Henk Rogers was promoting his video game, GO, at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show when he discovered the computer game Tetris. The events that followed...

New horror game catches players in its web

New horror game catches players in its web

Serena Bovee December 19, 2022

On Dec. 9, “Choo Choo Charles”, a horrid game about a spider train was released. In this game, you ride a train around an island, doing tasks for others and preparing to fight Charles, the spider train. This...

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Nintendo switch sports review

Leo Justesen May 31, 2022

After the infamous Wii Sports, a free game enjoyable for the whole family, no one dared to step up to the plate. There had been no serious contender to that game in any way — until the Nintendo Switch...

Senior Rahma Farah works on a math project where students created their own video game in her fifth hour NTA class Nov. 9.

NTA expresses creativity through video games

Yonit Krebs November 21, 2017

Working on improvements to his video game, senior Non-Traditional Academy student Abdiwahab Ali thinks the project improves basic coding knowledge. “I think (working on the video game) gives you really...

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