2020 is a year which will forever be ingrained in history books. With the talk of the worldwide pandemic taking most of the news for the year, it is important to note how important video games were during this troubling…
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…Yeah, so fuck this year right? Seriously. According to historians, the worst year to have been alive in recorded history was 536 AD. A volcano eruption spread a cloud of ash across much of Europe and China, causing temperatures to…
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May you live in interesting times. Worst. Curse. Ever. Everyone has already talked about 2020 ad infinitum, so I’ll skip a good portion of that. Yep, I played a lot of hours this year and that part of 2020 was…
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You might look at my list and think I had a pretty boring year with games. Three games, two of which came out early in the year and one I’m not that excited about? Seems awful. But I spent most…
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2020 has been a year for the ages and, luckily, it was no different for us that were stuck at home playing video games. The year provided plenty of opportunities to get in some heavy duty gaming time. As 2020…
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2020 has been more of a hellish year than a hell of one. Next-gen arrived, but you’d be forgiven for not shaking with excitement for the new consoles in light of the shadow cast by this global pandemic that is…
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We’re kicking off our GOTY coverage with Eduard Gafton’s Top 10 Games of 2020!
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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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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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NOTE: This article contains a spoiler for Ghost of Tsushima I’ve been playing a lot of Ghost of Tsushima. Most of my time is spent exploring its lush, open setting. Every inch is packed with purpose — towns and survivor…
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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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The year was 2006. By this point, Sony’s first handheld console — the PlayStation Portable — had featured two non-canon spinoffs in the critically acclaimed Metal Gear series: Metal Gear Acid and its sequel. But the system was due for…
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