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I've got a busy month ahead with GOTY-related features, but nothing stops the Indie Game of the Week. I picked out HopFrog 's Forager because it's an excellent example of an undemanding podcast game: something I can half-heartedly chip away at while doing other things. An effective crystallization of survival games and idle clickers framed in a pleasantly anodyne top-down 16-bit pixel aesthetic...
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Game : Size Five Games 's Devil's Kiss Release Month : February. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 03/12. Completed : 03/12. Devil's Kiss is a visual novel that is about twenty minutes long and has one achievement called "Basically Read a Book". It is not so much a commercial product (though you can buy it separately) but an elaborate Ren'Py joke included with the purchase of the actual next game on...
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Game : USTWO 's Assemble with Care Release Month : March Quick Look : Here . Started : 02/12. Completed : 02/12. A gentle puzzle game to start off Go! Go! GOTY! this year. Created by the same team behind the chill Monument Valley , Assemble With Care was originally a launch game for the Apple Arcade service, and its design from top to bottom feels intended for a mobile device: everything is bui...
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Feels like damn near everyone's planning to get as far through Cyberpunk as they can before it's time to nail down a 2020 list, but I'm putting it off until next year. I'm not here to talk about 2020. That's what therapists are for. However, I am here to talk to you about several games released in 2020 that perhaps slipped in under the radar, even during what was a relatively scant year for rel...
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Welcome back to the Mega Archive, slowly working its way through the holiday season of 28 years ago. November 1992 has proven to be a busy month, not least of which is because of what's arriving at incredible speed on the 24th; the anniversary for which I saw plastered all over Twitter a week ago. That would be Sonic 2sday , the North American release date of the second Sonic the Hedgehog game....
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Welcome to “Gaming Memories,” a blog series where I reminisce about my favorite video games . I will slowly but surely get to every game on the list, and speak to why each holds a special place in my heart. That not only means I’ll talk about why I think each is a great game that speaks to my tastes, but also where and how it affected me in a larger context. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for rea...
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It's sort of weird that I remember the accompanying sound effect to this image. As is the norm on my blogs, I want to start with a disclaimer. Despite my blog's content and tone, I wish everyone who is currently under the employ of the revived G4 channel the best . For example, Ron Funches and Austin Creed are phenomenal hires, and they are rightfully excited to showcase their "best stuff" to a...
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When we discuss games, we almost always talk about them as assemblages of experiences that anyone who plays them will undergo. And why not? We're used to media that consists of set series of events; it's what we see in books, films, and television programmes. Like with movies or TV shows, we boot games by placing a disc into an electro-box or by clicking a tile in a media library. Multiple peop...
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Homefront is a famously mediocre Call of Duty Clone from 2011. I know this. I’ve known it since the game was released and the buzz was almost entirely negative. I knew this in late 2011 when I apparently ordered the game off Amazon for $20, which seems like an outrageous amount to have spent. I knew this when I popped the disc last night and started playing through the game. Now, having finishe...
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Plucking yet another of the many gratis explormer s from the pile I received in the Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality unexpectedly led to playing one of the most intriguing and genuinely cool examples of this genre since, well, Timespinner , with which it shares a focus on timeline manipulation. However, where Timespinner felt like it was designed with a historian or anthropologist...
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I invite you all to go CDs nuts, as it's the return of the Mega Archive CD! 1992 saw an additional twenty-seven Sega/Mega-CD games, so I'm splitting them up into three groups of nine. (Multiplication tables, you haven't failed me yet.) After this batch we'll be all caught up with the Mega Archive, currently languishing in the November of 1992. I won't repeat the entire spiel about the Sega CD's...
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Many parents wonder what the best video games for preschoolers are because the internet is filled with so many choices. The problem is that not all video games are suitable for preschoolers. It's a good idea to have a game console that can be used for playing educational games. Older children will benefit from using these types of games. Children who learn through play should be able to use thi...
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I’ve always had a soft spot for underdogs. It could be a hopelessly outmatched sports team, a musician rising from obscurity, or, in this case, a great game that isn’t getting the recognition it deserves. Desperados III would have completely passed me by if not for an internet reviewer praising it enthusiastically. After finishing the game, I have to pay it forward and tell you everything that...
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It is clear from playing Binary Domain that it is a game of from early 2012. It’s a linear third person shooter heavily influenced by Gears of War and Uncharted, with a pinch of Vanquish for good measure. Playing it is a bit more awkward than any of those games, with cover-based shooting that never really feels great and clunky enemy movement and patterns. The environments are pretty small and...
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Need For Speed The Run got mediocre reviews at the time of its release, which is why I never played it at the time. I picked it up for $10 in a digital sale in 2015, and just shoved it into my backlog, but remained curious about the game’s concept of playing through a car chase movie like Cannonball run. Loading it up in 2020 for the first time I wasn’t expecting to love it but thought it might...
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Why You Should Play Genshin Impact | A Free-To-Play Gem If previously wrote Genshin Impact off as anime Breath of the Wild ; I’m here to tell you to take another look. I’ve spent the last 30 days playing 2 accounts; my main PS4 account, where I spent some money and dabbled a bit with re-rolling characters on PC. I’m addicted & I have concluded that… Yes, you should play Genshin Impact! Why is t...
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I pencilled this playthrough in about a month ago, and since then two things have happened: the death of Sir Sean Connery, the original (movie) James Bond , and the news that IO Interactive of Hitman fame are working on a game adaptation of that same spy franchise. It's in both auspicious and inauspicious circumstances that I decided to boot up Yak & Co. 's superspy parody adventure game Agent...
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Introduction As always, I am here to nerd out about Star Wars! Hello, my fellow Giant Bomb community members! There are two things about myself many of you already know: 1) I am the site's de facto expert on the Final Fantasy series , and 2) I like the Star Wars franchise . To the latter of these points, several of you may recall last year, when Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order came out, I wrote a...
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You might’ve heard of the Sony PlayStation. What was originally planned as a collaboration between Nintendo & Sony to expand the Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a CD drive, became something completely different with Sony forging their own path after Nintendo reneged on their deal. While the console’s legacy speaks for itself, spawning record breaking successors and some of the most pop...
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(I wrote this article for a class, decades ago - and just thought this would bve a fun place to publish it!) There are many types of video games out there to play. From simple arcade type games to the more complicated ones, there is something for everyone. If you are looking for a new game to play you need to know which ones are the best for your tastes and learning curve. But also, maybe go ou...
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Welcome back to the Mega Archive! We skipped another week, this time due to Giant Bomb XL charity streams and the careful moderation thereof, but now it's time to dig further into the November 1992 release catalogue of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. November 1992 was very dissimilar to the present November of course, as Democrats celebrate their candidate's electoral victory over a crappy one-ter...
