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I was probably 8 years old when my friend John put Medal of Honor: Frontline into the GameCube in his basement with me. We had just “borrowed” it from his older sister and figured it would be a welcomed break from the Mario Kart we’d been playing all day. I still remember storming the beach at Normandy for the first time. My experience with FPS was basically relegated to my cousin’s house, or f...
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CEO 2018 happened this past weekend and there were more than a few shake ups on the CPT Global Leaderboard as a result. I'm a stat nerd and I also find the CPT website to be a bit cumbersome to use and lacking a few stats that'd be interesting to see, so I've been working on a Google Sheet and adding the results myself. CURRENT CPT GLOBAL LEADERBOARD 1st(+3) - Fujimura (Placed 1st 11-1) +270 =...
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Hey, I been reading a bunch of stuff lately and I figured I’d write some stuff down about it in case anyone was interested. Most of what I’ve been throwing on the Kindle lately has been in the vein of escapist sci-fi, which, you know, maybe it’s easy to forgive a little escapism right about now. I was a little surprised, actually, to find out that I had already read five of the six Hugo novel n...
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Howdy Mega Drivers to another episode of the Mega Archive. We're continuing to update the wiki and spackling over gaps in our coverage of Sega's most successful console in the period between its Japanese launch and the release of Sonic the Hedgehog , the killer app that brought the system to new heights. Speaking of its Japanese launch, we're creeping closer to the console's 30th anniversary in...
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As I embark on another summer of games I have had the bright idea of recording my thoughts and ideas as I play. This will be my first blog and I don't know exactly how to do it but I thought I would give it a try. First of all, I should explain my situation, I am a secondary (high) school teacher and my summer break is about to begin. That means 16 hour days of freedom for about 7 weeks. I also...
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Aw, shit. I bought a Nintendo Switch . Dammit. For the first year of its life, I held some amount of malice towards this console-handheld hybrid. It may sound stupid (and it is), but on some level I felt betrayed. For its whole life cycle, I defended the Wii U and its great games while the rest of the gaming community turned up its nose. Once those games came out on Switch, everyone changed the...
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Man, the halfway point to another crummy year. What's worse is that, unlike last year, this one doesn't seem to have nearly the same wealth of great games coming out as a distraction from the burning trash fire that is our present reality. Maybe I'm being too harsh (about the games, not reality) and that the third quarter of the year could have some sneaky surprises for us all as we emerge from...
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Hello fellow Hamster-fans, As i'm sure you're all aware by now, there is a brand spanking new video game hamster on the scene! Brought to us by our friends at Blizzard, Hammond is the newest hero in Overwatch and oh BOY! OHHHHHHHH BOY!!!!!!! This changes everything! Its a MAJOR upset to the " Top 10 Hamsters in Video Games " List!!!!! And I've got a lot of thoughts I'm gonna share with YOU! Let...
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Quickly I remembered that is easier to downstream content rather than upstream it. Entertainment Westworld - What is the number for Bull Shit? I'd like to call them to discuss this finale. It Inception and combined it with Dollhouse but only used the bad parts. Did not enjoy, will not recommend. Transformers: The Last Knight - Oh god, please let this be the last movie they make. Please cancel t...
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Though I'm often one to avoid certain recurring characteristics in Indie games, most notably roguelike behavior by way of procgen level design and permadeath states, there's a few that will likely draw me in despite any other misgivings I might about a game from its reputation or early impressions borne from browsing the Steam marketplace or watching a Quick Look. One of those positive characte...
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The SNES Classic had a sterling assortment of games from Nintendo's 16-bit star console, but it's hardly all that system has to offer a modern audience. In each installment of this fortnightly feature, I judge two games for their suitability for a Classic successor based on four criteria, with the ultimate goal of assembling another collection of 25 SNES games that not only shine as brightly as...
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*This Appleseed movie review is the last of four that I will be doing for the month. For a small primer on the comic series, check out my Appleseed Month announcement here * Appleseed Alpha is an experiment of sorts. It trades in the futuristic cityscape of Olympus for the war-torn streets of New York. Its main characters, as a result, are less optimistic and more antiheroic than their counterp...
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Now that E3's come and gone for another year, I'm ready to enjoy the rest of my June by checking in with the Summer Games Done Quick charity event that begins tomorrow. I've been a little lax in my usual diligence to ensure the Giant Bomb Wiki is in fine shape for the event: the bare minimum is to make sure everything on the schedule has its own game page, so that the event's Twitch channel ope...
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Something I've begun to appreciate with this Indie Game of the Week column is the restorative powers of a breezy, minimally-challenging game that can suck you into its aesthetic for a few hours and spit you back out feeling rejuvenated and relaxed. Not that my life has been particularly stressful of late, but this Thursday saw the one-two punch of the final formatting of this colossus of an E3...
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Hello There! This is a shot from the first short film I made last year My name's Luis, and I like stuff! I wrote a blog post a little while ago (oh god that was two months ago) about stuff I was into. It was a nice and positive thing that I really enjoyed writing, and recently I've been needing some extra positivity in my life. I also would like for this to be a place where y'all can post about...
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It's your boy - The New Found King of Royalty-Free Music, The Keeper of the Aux Cord, The Curator of Cool, THE - that's about all I could think of, it's Jan. Hello! I've gotten a couple requests about the jams that I put on during our E3 breaks and while most of them can be found in this helpful thread on the site I wanted to share some select tracks that I liked the most. I don't want to repla...
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If you haven't heard, Jeff Gerstmann was ecstatic when he saw the Gears Pop! reveal during Giant Bomb's E3 2018 Microsoft Press Conference . Here's an update to my previous post (where others have also made Funk Pop! versions of people related to Giant Bomb) which now includes all the crew. Bomb Pop! Bomb Pop! II Bomb Pop! II: Champion Edition Super Bomb Pop! II: The New Challengers
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Hello! Two years since the last post, but I'm back. I have still been playing actively and thought I should try this again. Writing about my impressions of games and hardware I come across. When I tried this the last time, I found that I fell off many games, resulting in little output. To avoid this, I might do some kind of weekly posts, to give updates about my progress. Plus I'll definitely r...
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Welcome back, Gen-heads, to another edition of the Mega Archive: a chronological journey through the library of the Sega Genesis a.k.a. the Sega Mega Drive. I've tried to pack these entries with as much info as is healthy, but I'd highly recommend Player One Podcast's video series Generation 16 which covers these games in more detail, with video footage even. This fortnight's entry includes fif...
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I have (sort of) re-used this image from the first Appleseed Month post. But man I am a sucker for that action pose. *This Appleseed movie review is the third of four that I will be doing for the month. For a small primer on the comic series, check out my Appleseed Month announcement here * Appleseed Ex Machina still is a fun cyberpunk action movie that flies by seamlessly and effortlessly. It...
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After seeing Jeff, Alex, and Dan's reactions to the Gears Pop! reveal during their coverage of the E3 2018 Microsoft Press Conference , I had to make this.
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So, I decided to try my hand at creating a Doom level ... Best served in Ultra-Violence. I recommend you play it via a Doom source port (e.g. GZDoom ). I haven't tested it via DOSBox - but DOSBox is generally a bad way to play Doom levels in 2018 anyway. Just download the level and drag the file onto GZDoom (or your source port of choice). Thanks to shami_sansi for feedback.
