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I went into Tales of Kenzera: Zau with high expectations. The New York Times called it “a gem of human experience made all the more profound because of its self-assured heart.” Other publications hyped it up as a polished game with a lot to say and an excellent way of saying it. I was ready to be pulled into another world and maybe even shed a few tears at a story about love and loss. I came aw...
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Dr. Jitesh Manghwani: Gold Medalist, Spine Surgeon & Robotic Spine Surgery In the world of spine surgery , expertise, innovation, and compassion are paramount. Dr. Jitesh Manghwani embodies these qualities, standing out as a distinguished figure in the field. With over a decade of experience and a reputation as a pioneer in robotic spine surgery, Dr. Manghwani has transformed the lives of count...
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I wasn't going to play Helldivers 2, and I didn't until well after the hype cycle had died down. That might be part of the problem. Ultimately what pulled me in was a friend who rarely gets into games saying he loved it and wanted to play with me. I don't trust his taste in games at all, and he tends to be fickle, but I do like playing online with him just because I so rarely play with friends...
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Welcome back to Indie Game of the Week, where we'll be reviewing an Indie explormer . Look, I know. I've been stuck on this one gear for quite some time. It's just... whenever a new explormer comes out and hits the zeitgeist, like it has recently for Tales of Kenzera: Zau and that Prince of Persia thing , I feel my status around here as The Explormer King start to slip all the while the demon k...
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Raiden (or Rayden as I prefer to call him) is the fourth Mortal Kombat character to join my Video Game Hall of Fame, joining Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Liu Kang. Next week's character will be a Tekken favorite.
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Extreme G and Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls are now live for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members! Will you take your cyber-cycle to gravitational extremes in Extreme G or race through the towering tracks in Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls first? pic.twitter.com/WS9jvQgJNq — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 24, 2024 I regret to inform you that Nintendo has gotten into the Acclaim N64 catalog....
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Note: The following article contains major spoilers for Half-Life and Black Mesa and minor spoilers for Half-Life 2. A Year in Games Ask long-standing fixtures of video games the best year for the hobby, and chances are their modal response will be "1998". It marks the birthdays of Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time, Spyro the Dragon, StarCraft, Banjo-Kazooie, and Dance Dance Revolution. It also...
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Continuing this trend of being incidentally relevant—this IGotW's game was, until yesterday, also the weekly freebie for the Epic Games Store —we have the extremely slick first-person "acrobatic kill" simulator Ghostrunner from studios One More Level and Slipgate Ironworks , a game with high enough production values that I'll probably get figuratively slapped by those who take umbrage at anythi...
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I was too engrossed in the game to take any action screenshots, OK?!? Note: This blog contains unmarked spoilers for Hades , as well as unmarked spoilers for the mechanics of Hades II . Story elements included in the technical test of Hades II have been marked as spoilers, with the exception of the main character’s name and general descriptions of the supporting cast. The first thing I would li...
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My unofficial hiatus hasn’t been from a lack of gaming time; rather, I’ve just been too scatterbrained to organize a coherent string of thoughts. Let’s just blast out quick hits on as many titles as I can. Tower Climber! I would have checked this out eventually, but there was a nice surprise... Since the start of the year, I have competed in MinnMax’s Trivia Tower competition every month. With...
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Wayforward is making another 2D platformer starring a young female protagonist. As news goes this is the equivalent to "today is Thursday." It doesn't happen every day, but it happens quite a lot. What's semi notable about this particular 2D platformer from the company that seems to churn them out as frequently as Nintendo churns out takedown notices for emulators is that it's based in the "Yar...
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Falco Lombardi, of Star Fox fame, joins his friend Fox McCloud as the second Star Fox representative in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will be a Mortal Kombat staple.
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Swannichiwa, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Anyway, Here's WonderSwan. Like all ugly ducklings, I've always regarded swans with a sense of wonderment but could never be one (I think that's how the story goes) so getting up and close with (a virtual approximation of) Bandai's WonderSwan has been nothing if not eye-opening. We're three entries into this feature now and I've plenty of...
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As someone who complains a fair amount about the state of "AAA" gaming, one of the solutions that I often hear is to play more indie games. Indie games are not plagued with a lot of the issues that infest the big company games these days. They're reasonably priced, often single player focused, and rarely riddled with microtransactions or other unsavory practices like always online DRM. If you l...
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This week, stay a while and listen to the tale of an important yet often overlooked and taken for granted aspect of video game history: Sound and Music. Much like in cinema, sound and music have always been essential parts of the gaming experience. Using them, developers aim to immerse players in the virtual worlds they create in various ways. For example, they can set the tone of a moment , se...
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Welcome to an unprecedented episode of Indie Game of the Week. The unprecedented part isn't the genre—it's another 2D explormer RPG, sure, but I'll say the tone is very different to last week's Salt and Sacrifice —but rather that I managed to actually get the stars to align for once: I'd been putting off Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising for a while due to my usual procrastinating over RPGs but then I...
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I’ve more or less given up on trying to craft this “blog” into some kind of coherent whole that all hangs together and flows nicely, etc. Err… sorry? What can I say, writing is hard and time-consuming, and I think I’m just going to have to be content with blurting out a list of fairly disconnected thoughts about this game, some longer and some just quick hits. Hopefully you’ll find something in...
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Let's Talk About Raising Money FOR KIDS! Can't stop; won't stop! Well, it is that time of the year again when I throw in my lot with the members of the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run. Those who have been around this site for a while may recall the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run being a community-led Spring charity drive. It is something that got started years ago when electricviking not...
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Chris Redfield joins Jill Valentine and Leon Kennedy (not to mention his enemy Nemesis) as the fourth Resident Evil delegate for my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will be a Nintendo character from the Star Fox series.
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