It’s easy to be discouraged by ballooning prices and diminishing ownership that plagues the game industry today, to the point that it feels as if the entire medium is being closed off to you. However, while the economics of the…
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As someone who takes pride in the video game library I’ve built over time, the current game industry presents more than one existential threat to the way I prefer to engage with it. Ballooning prices, game-key cards, GAAS, an overreliance…
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10 May 2025
A recent, short comment thread on my last video got me to thinking, what would it actually take to bring me around on Switch 2 game-key cards? I was surprisingly able to come up with an honest and feasible answer,…
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It’s easy to roll your eyes when a game you don’t like gets included in a collection or gets released as a port/remaster on modern platforms. Just remember that the same thinking that put those games where they are is…
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Sony’s trying to sell a $700 PlayStation 5 this holiday season that…frankly, doesn’t do much the existing PlayStation 5 can’t. How about buying a machine that can properly and fully celebrate PlayStation’s 30-year history instead?
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I’ve had the cure for scalpers for ages. Nintendo at least seems to be preparing to enact it.
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If we’re honest, AAA has been digesting itself for quite some time, currently manifesting itself in the form of high-profile game cancellations, studio closures, and mass layoffs. However, a certain corner of the gaming audience is hyping this up as…
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06 May 2024
It seemed like that was that in Fall 2021 when Microsoft shuttered their backward compatibility development with one final and substantial wave of releases. One need only look at the percentage of games on their legacy platforms to understand just…
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Virtua Fighter’s main appeal has always been its unique approach to the fighting genre compared to its contemporaries. Is Sega on the verge of throwing it all away at the hands of the man who attempted bringing SoulCalibur in line…
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COVID-19 really diminished E3’s presence, and therefore its perceived value, in the years before the ESA finally pulled the plug. That shouldn’t distract you from the fact that it was one of the few truly unifying events on gaming’s calendar…
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The Game Awards seldom do much for me, but I’ll certainly make an exception for the 2023 edition. Sega really showed out this year, but just as they implied in the Power Surge trailer, there’s a lot more to come….
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There’s a truly detestable demographic out there of people trying to commodify retro games, greatly complicating things for people getting into the retro gaming market with the intention of actually playing what they buy. Thankfully, there’s a healthy reproduction scene…
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