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Patrick Sounds Off: An Ode to Rediscovery

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Patrick Sounds Off Retro Videos | 0 Comments | 07 Dec 2022

Going back to great games of your past is a good feeling. Going back to great games of your past and realizing that they’re actually among your all-time favorites is truly remarkable. Have you had this experience?

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Patrick Sounds Off: Modern Problems…

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Patrick Sounds Off PlayStation 5 Videos Xbox Series X | 0 Comments | 05 Dec 2022

Patrick Sounds Off on game ownership, physical and digital distribution, and how the digital future could look.

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Patrick Sounds Off: #FreedMvC2? Hardly.

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Patrick Sounds Off Videos | 0 Comments | 03 Dec 2022

Arcade1Up’s hijacking of the #FreeMvC2 hashtag campaign isn’t just out of touch, it undermines its entire mission, and should be called out for it.

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Patrick Sounds Off: We Need Demo Culture Back

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Patrick Sounds Off PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Videos | 0 Comments | 01 Dec 2022

Remember demo discs? Patrick does and he makes a good case for something similar to come back.

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Patrick Sounds Off: Lightning Round for 11/27/2022

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Patrick Sounds Off PlayStation 5 Videos Xbox Series X | 0 Comments | 30 Nov 2022

Patrick Sounds Off, rapid fire style on several stories from the last couple of weeks.

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“Edge of Eternity” Review-In-Progress

author image by Patrick Mifflin | PC Reviews | 0 Comments | 24 Jun 2021

The indie space has been fertile ground for classical JRPGs for quite some time now, but mostly in the form of creative if relatively simplistic RPG Maker projects. French developer Midgar Studio is looking to change all of that with…

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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2020

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Best of 2020 Features | 0 Comments | 29 Dec 2020

Yes, I have ten games. Yes,. ten games that came out in 2020. I know that surprises some of you.

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SNK teases The King of Fighters XV reveal trailer

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Previews | 0 Comments | 05 Dec 2020

We’re weeks away from the first full trailer of #TheKingOfFightersXV, but first, check out Patrick Mifflin’s thoughts on the newly released teaser!

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Arcade Racing: Beyond the Big Four

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Features | 0 Comments | 18 Nov 2020

Fans of the arcade racing genre have been a long-neglected lot, thanks to an overall lack of output from genre pillars Sega and Namco, as well as some blurring of genre lines with the proliferation of “action racers” – or…

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Gamers Without Borders: Let’s Get Started

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Features | 0 Comments | 30 Oct 2020

Next month, Sony and Microsoft are launching allegedly new gaming hardware. More specifically, we’re just weeks away from the launches, and I’m still struggling to figure out why. Between the Xbox XS and PlayStation 5, there are two games that…

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Retro Revolution

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Reviews | 0 Comments | 30 Aug 2020

Let’s be honest, the apathy, or perhaps antipathy, from the big three on the matter of comprehensive backward compatibility is absolutely maddening at times. That’s not to say they’re completely ignorant of the subject – Sony and Nintendo include BC…

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How We Lost The War

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Features PlayStation 4 Xbox 360 Xbox One | 0 Comments | 24 Jul 2020

Seven years. It’s really hard to believe, but it has been seven years since the disastrous Xbox One reveal that hung over an otherwise solid E3 2013 Microsoft conference like a rancid swamp ninja, smothering every last bit of potential…

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