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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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Patrick's Top 10 Games of 2019

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Best of 2019 Features | 0 Comments | 28 Dec 2019

2019 was an unexpectedly slim year for me. Despite finally getting my hands on (and head in) a PlayStation VR – or perhaps because of it – most of my gaming was actually stuff I missed out on in recent…

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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2018

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Articles Best of 2018 Features Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Xbox One | 0 Comments | 29 Dec 2018

There’s something to be said for consistency. Going into 2018, I could have put together a list very much like this one predicting how my top picks of the year would pan out, with the only surprises being games that…

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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2017

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Best of 2017 | 0 Comments | 27 Dec 2017

I’ve traditionally been a little bit of an outlier in the Game of the Year system here at SmashPad, largely because I tend to go into the year knowing what my top ten is likely to be at the end….

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“Tekken 7” Review

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Console PC PlayStation 4 Reviews Steam Xbox One | 0 Comments | 17 Sep 2017

The Tekken franchise has long since found its place in the fighting game landscape. Street Fighter II may have been the game that truly marked the genre’s arrival to fighting game prominence, and Virtua Fighter was the true 3D pioneer…

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