Jordan’s Top 3 Games of 2020
by Jordan ElekYou 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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Christian’s Top 10 Games of 2020
by Christian Paraguya2020 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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Jon’s Top 10 Games of 2020
by Jon Yelenic2020 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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Eduard’s Top 10 Games of 2020
by Eduard GaftonWe’re kicking off our GOTY coverage with Eduard Gafton’s Top 10 Games of 2020!
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Arcade Racing: Beyond the Big Four
by Patrick MifflinFans 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
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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Open World Games Shouldn’t Tell Stories, You Should
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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How We Lost The War
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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How “Portable Ops” changed “Metal Gear”
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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Chris' Top 10 Games of 2019
by Chris Selogy2019 has been a very busy year for games with a great variety of quality experiences we don’t usually see.
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Danreb's Top 10 Games of 2019
by Danreb VictorioMaybe there weren’t as many “heavy hitters” as there were the last couple years, but 2019 was definitely not a bad year in gaming as it was extremely difficult to come up with the 2019 releases I sincerely liked the…
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