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I am not what you would call a casual fan of stealth games. I am, however, a fan of Mike Bithell : the UK developer of this game, Volume , as well as Thomas Was Alone and, more recently, Subsurface Circular . In addition to producing mordantly amusing games with minimalist looks and an emphasis on layered game design, he's an entertaining figure to follow on social media; like Rami Ismail , he'...
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Today I am taking a sick day from work. I'm feeling pretty lame and am going to spend my time doing things around the house. There's a couple NCAA college basketball tournament games on, and I have been listening to Rolling Stones and podcasts and seeing what's on TV.
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TOP 10 HAMSTERS IN VIDEO GAMES PRESENTED BY GIANT BOMB’S RESIDENT HAMSTER EXPERT, MODERATETROUBLE Hello and welcome to the most important list ever compiled on the internet. Let me introduce myself. I’m moderateTrouble, I’ve owned hamsters for nearly 4 years and hamsters are the best animals ever. What, you think dogs are better than hamsters? Well, sorry buddy you’re wrong. Hamsters are the be...
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Pick up your clickers and squint your eyes with your head askew, because we're heading back to the arbitrary world of Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure games, or HOPA: an acronym I recently learned was not in wide use by anyone! I've been around this concealed paraphernalia mill a few times now, as evinced by the numerical in the blog title, and yet this week opened my eyes to a few new unfortunat...
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DOTA 2 has been listing for a couple years now, after 7.0 hit player count has either treaded water or slowly sank ever since for a host of reasons. Not that unusual for even the greatest games. Growth can't last forever and DOTA 2 has never been good or even seemed to really care about onboarding new players. Eventually they were going to have to confront that (the new-ish Turbo mode inspired...
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I realize we've been saying this for a while now, but the wiki update is almost here. The engineers have been working tirelessly on various site features of late, from a new search engine to the well-received "Giant Bomb TV" 24/7 rerun channel, but their major focus over the past year or so has been what I've always considered the spine of Giant Bomb: its enormous, user-curated wiki of video ga...
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There's definitely something scrappy about Indie physics simulators. Realistic physics is a difficult thing to get right for a major AAA developer who requires some state of the art tech behind its various big cinematic set-pieces, let alone for an Indie poking around to slake their own curiosity. I submit that it's why these Indie physics simulators/puzzle games generally have a healthy dose o...
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After getting into Dragonball Fighter Z, my little brother decided to buy all of Dragonball Z Kai. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t have a blu-ray player at the moment – my parents are borrowing it – so I wound up borrowing the discs from him and found myself way into Dragonball Z. I have finished all 167 episodes of Kai and I have opinions. It’s Still Pretty Good, You Guys Dragonball Z is a w...
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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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While everyone else plays this... As a video game enthusiast who likes to keep up with developments in the industry while predominantly playing old games, I'm very familiar with walking the interesting line between following the latest zeitgeists while not actively participating them. The most recent release to have captured my attention from a distance is the excitement surrounding Monster Hun...
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Back when Screened was still around I created a little annual blog feature with the dubious name of "Oscar Noms to Video Game ROMs": a doomed attempt to hypothetically adapt the various movies nominated for the "Best Picture" Oscar that year into their own video games. It proved easier with some than others: a superhero or sci-fi movie begrudgingly given Best Picture consideration by the spoils...
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While I created this weekly feature to galvanize me into playing more Indie games, I made no such lofty promises about branching out into the many varieties the Indie market has to offer. I'm a creature of habit, especially as I get older, and I'm frequently drawn to the many genres of my youth: genres that the nostalgic Indie market is all too eager to resurrect. That's why in this blog you te...
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NamCompendium is an attempt to survey the output of NAMCO from October 1978 to present. The primary goal of this work is to provide as authoritative of information as possible for Giant Bomb’s Wiki, with the secondary goal of considering the relative merits of individual games. In this entry, we shall consider Namco's immediate followups to their single best known work. Spoilers: they aren't as...
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It's the fourth episode of our in-depth study of the H.O.P.A. (Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure) genre and boy are my arms tired. From pointing at things that are hidden. I... may have bought more HOPAs. They were in a dollar bundle, and I'm only human. However, they weren't Artifex Mundi brand HOPAs, which means they won't be making an appearance here (I'd have to change the feature's name first...
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1 . Burnout Paradise Remastered I already pre-ordered it on the PlayStation store this will be the 3rd time I've bought Burnout Paradise and will be the 3rd time I will complete it and I just can't get enough of it. The beautiful destruction, the deafening engine sound once you hit the boost, the incredible and fluent online, the addicting Road Rage races, the barrel roles and the amazing sense...
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With the Oscar's coming next week I figured I would write up what the real best movies of 2017 were. At the end of each write up I included a trailer for the movie if I have failed to convinced you that it is worth watching. Most of the trailers are fairly spoiler free, with the exception of one but I do provide a warning for it. Most of these movies are available to stream on Netflix or Amazon...
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Without further ado, here's my top ten games of the year. At least, the first half of them; I have loads more to say about the top five than I do these ones, so those will take a little longer. #10: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Mario Kart needs to take a break. It's not like the games are getting bad or anything like that, but ever since Mario Kart DS (the last entry that truly felt like a big jump for...
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Hey folks! I have a copy of Dark Souls III (and some piece of DLC I can't be bothered to go look up) I'm looking to give away to one lucky member of the Giant Bomb community. But I'm not just interested in doing a random drawing. Oh no. You're going to entertain me. Dance for my entertainment! DANCE! Actually, no, don't dance. Write. Stop with the groaning already, it's simple. Assuming you hav...
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One of my favorite aspects of a truly global video game distribution system, which the Indie game market has fostered over the past decade or so, is seeing various fandoms through multiple cultural filters. For instance, today's game - Behold Studios 's Chroma Squad - is based the Japanese TV obsession of tokusatsu Super Sentai -type shows as perceived by a Brazilian development team. Creating...
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Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out! In this episode Gino, Billy, and Pete discuss Saints Row: the...
