[SmashPad Demo Fest] SP Plays – “Blossom: The Seed of Life”
by Chris SelogyChris Selogy spent some time on the demo for Blossom: The Seed of Life
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[SmashPad Demo Fest] SP Plays -“Replaced”
Let’s spend the next half hour trying out this demo of Replaced.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Fight For Your Digital Rights
by Patrick Mifflin
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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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Patrick Sounds Off: Understanding the Spirit of Preservation
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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Patrick Sounds Off: The Pro We Deserve
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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Patrick Sounds Off: It’s Not A Crash, It’s A Correction
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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Patrick Sounds Off: Cautious Optimism for Xbox Preservation
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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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Patrick Sounds Off: Virtua Fighter’s SoulCalibur Problem
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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Patrick Sounds Off: Never Forget What They Took From Us
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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Patrick Sounds Off: Much More Than an Ad Campaign
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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Patrick Sounds Off: Year of the Repro?
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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Patrick Sounds Off: The Evolving Legacy of PC Engine
I’ve spent a lot of time on my channel lately talking about the PC Engine, largely because there’s been so much to talk about. Now it’s time to give my honest take on the system, its library, and ultimately what…
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