Iwata and Nintendo: How Did It Come To This?
Satoru Iwata has a long history of success at Nintendo. He oversaw a hardware run that included Game Boy Advance SP, the Nintendo DS, the...
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The Kickstarter Scoreboard
Crowdfunding is a rebellious notion. The idea that a group of people could get together and pool their funds to determine the kind of games...
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Games Your Friends Will Watch You Play
No one wants to watch you play a game. At least not the whole way through. Streams and Twitch might be growing in popularity for...
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Games to Watch in 2014
What a quiet first couple weeks of 2014, right? Too quiet. Wondering where all the games are? Don’t worry, whether you own a current-gen console...
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Must Plays 2013 (The Last of Us and Gone Home)
Gone Home It is hard to find games that opt for simple ideas, in fact most games attempt the opposite, layering on epic worlds and...
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2013 In Review
Obama’s Research Into Violent Video Games Following the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, a viscous witch hunt began to determine. what was responsible for...
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Must Plays 2013 (BioShock Infinite and Rayman Legends)
BioShock Infinite BioShock fans were going stir crazy in the early spring of 2013. First, Irrational’s follow up to one of the greatest games of...
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2013 Must Plays (Ni No Kuni and Guacamelee)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch The JRPG has taken a weird place in the world of games. Often remembered through rose-tinted glasses,...
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2013 Must Plays (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Year Walk)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Breaking the conventions that games are built around is a dangerous business. Such experiments often win brownie points for...
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2013 Must Plays (Resogun and Grand Theft Auto V)
Last week I made a couple lists of games that I thought may not be top ten contenders, but still deserved some words at the...
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2013’s Best of the Rest (Part Two)
This continues the list of games that, while not cracking many top ten lists, are definitely still worth playing. You can find part one of...
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2013’s Best of the Rest (Part One)
Before getting into the top ten and game of the year talk of 2013, it felt right to go back and write about some games...
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Can the VGX Be Saved?
What are the VGX’s? Nothing special. Do they matter? Not much. However, in terms of mainstream media, the VGX awards (formerly the VGA’s) offer the...
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PlayStation 4, Xbox One In the Wild
Consoles reviews are stupid, at least in a traditional sense. The real reason so many publications trot them out is not actually to provide a...
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Ryse: Son of Rome Review
Launch lineups generally have their checklists to live by. First-Person Shooter? Check. Car racing simulator? Check. Family friendly game? Check. The reason why these games...
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Video Games Won The Console War
It is unfair to say that video games were in a precarious place heading into its next generation of console hardware. Video games are, in...