Fable Review: The RPG That Proved Player Choice Could Matter
Spent fifteen years in IT management and I know that some of the greatest systems that exist today give users total control over their own...
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My Thirty-Year Love Affair with a Blue Hedgehog (And Why I Keep Coming Back Despite Everything)
OK. Full disclosure time; I’ve been playing Sonic games since 1991. For reasons I don’t quite understand, I’m still obsessed now almost thirty years later....
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Golden Axe Review The Fantasy Brawler That Ate Lunch Money Three Coins At A Time
Timothy here. I am going to have to say that I have been bothered by a lot since I first started playing Golden Axe about...
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Gears of War Review: The Third-Person Shooter That Defined The Genre
I have been studying video game mechanics since the early days of the arcade, and so I understand that simple ideas executed well can result...
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The Game That Broke My Brain: How Final Fantasy VII Turned Me Into a Real RPG Player
I was nineteen-years-old opening it for the first time. I was meant to be studying for a calculus mid-term, but Kevin and I were barricaded...
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Pac Man Review The Maze Game That Started A Global Obsession
Joe’s been going on and on about Streets of Rage for weeks now, so I’m happy to take over for this post because I wanted...
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Three Decades of Falling Blocks: My Tetris Obsession Started in a Buick
The Game Boy kept me sane during what might have been the longest car trip in recorded history. I didn’t own any video games that...
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Jade Empire Review: The Action RPG That Proved Martial Arts Could Work
As someone coming from construction, I know there are solutions to problems that are elegant and effective. Jade Empire’s action system is one of those....
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Space Invaders Review The Shooter That Created The Entire Arcade Industry
When I came to Space Invaders for the first time, I will admit I saw no more than just the most rudimentary elements of a...
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Mario Broke Gaming Wide Open
Christmas 1985 wasn’t supposed to be like other Christmasses we’d had as a family. It wasn’t because my dad suddenly came up with some crazy...
