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A Dredd review that might be too focused on its 4 top billing cast members. Ah, Armored Core Six Fires of Rubicon! Aren’t you a harsh mistress? Not only do you yourself refuse to relief me, your makers chose market you in a way that made me want to watch 2012’s Dredd again. Why do they feel the need to cast Karl Urban in an ad? Is he a bad enough dude to give that prep talk for mercs in mechs s...
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Yū Yū Jinsei Developer/Publisher: Hudson Release: 22 April 1988 (JP) Foreknowledge Piss temperature: Boiling The Game of Life is abysmal. It’s the dirt worst board game. I rank it worse than Candy Land in a walk. Both games are abominable, make no mistake. However, I can think of at least one way to make Candy Land at least slightly more interesting and game-like: draw two cards and pick the be...
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An explanation of what we're doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last week, we reached the nadir of our fortunes with the latest batch of 3DO games when we looked at Road Rash, Alone in the Dark, Way of the Warrior, Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties . Last time with the PS1, we waded our way through early June '96 with Top Gun: Fire At Will!,...
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I don’t know what else I could have done. The first experience I had with Mimimi Productions is with 2020’s Desperados III . It was basically on a whim. I didn’t have any experience with the isometric stealth genre it belongs to. Frankly, I wasn’t even aware there was a Desperados I or II. But giving the game a chance paid off tremendously. The expertly tuned mechanics, masterful level design,...
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Our next entry in 2023's Video Game Hall of Fame is Dishonored's hero Corvo Attano. Next week's character will be from BioShock.
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“Judgement Day” Double Feature: Oppenheimer and T2, 1991’s high-octane one . (Spoiler for both movies I suppose. Then again, if foreknowledge can spoil one’s enjoyment of things then I doubt those things are actually good to begin with.) Despite its rather epic length, Terminator 2 Judgement Day had been part of 3 double feature viewing I’ve done. First one being the theatrical cut after the Te...
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Part of me thinks I've enough RPGs on my plate already without jamming them into my Indie Game of the Week slot (ew, phrasing) as well—and 2023 isn't exactly an "agile" year for new RPGs either, to use Electronic Arts's parlance —but I'll admit to long being curious about Cris Tales since its head-turning trailers first hit E3 and the like, and then possibly more so still once I'd heard that it...
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SPOILER WARNING: This blog contains major story spoilers for The Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It also contains brief spoilers for multiple other Zelda games, including Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and Breath of the Wild. What does it take to topple a great evil? Especially an evil that has established a seemingly overwhelming power over those aro...
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Help, Armored Core has consumed my life You better believe I have a lot of takes about CURRENT POPULAR GAME. But instead of that let's talk about a niche series of robot games made for lunatics between the years 1997 and 2006. Oh hi, it’s been a bit, hasn’t it? What if I got back into the habit of playing video games and writing about them, hm? Too much has happened to me in the last few months...
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An explanation of what's going on here can be found in the intro post . Last week with the PS1, we looked at the June 1996 PS1 releases of Top Gun: Fire At Will!, V-Tennis, A-Train, and Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball . Last time with the 3DO, we continued into 1994 by looking at Soccer Kid, Family Feud, John Madden Football, Jurassic Park Interactive, and Shock Wave . Now, we begin our descent...
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Conker, of Conker's Bad Fur Day fame, is the next entry to my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's entry will come from the Dishonored series.
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Given the milestone I was so tempted to just blog about Threes this week, but who and their grandmother hasn't already played that thing to death? So instead, we're back in 2D platformer territory for an unprecedented second week for Kaze and the Wild Masks , a gorgeous platformer that carefully straddles the line between unpleasantly hard and tolerably hard. Developed by Brazilian team PixelHi...
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Doesn't The Name "Square-Enix" Imply Two Companies Under One House? What the HELL is happening with this game behind the scenes? Square-Enix has been back in the news for all the wrong reasons again. As reported by Bloomberg and then repeated by our very own Jeff Grubb, the company's gross revenue was in the green, but overall profits dropped approximately 65% this last fiscal quarter . In resp...
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In the realm of video games, where digital conquests and high-score battles unfurl, few documentaries have plunged so compellingly into the heart of the joystick-clutching human spirit as The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007). Director Seth Gordon, like a maestro conducting an orchestra of arcade cabinets, orchestrates a symphony of competition, camaraderie, and controversy that rivals...
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An explanation of what we're doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last time, we kicked off Summer '96 with Battle Arena Toshinden 2, Silverload, Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition, and Tecmo World Golf . We'll now continue through the first week of June with Top Gun: Fire At Will! , V-Tennis , A-Train , and Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball . **This post is also featured on my site, fifthg...
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This week's addition to my Video Game Hall of Fame is Square Enix's Adam Jensen of Deus Ex fame. Next week's character will be a mature gamers character.
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Over the past few years, artificial intelligence language models, such as ChatGPT, have taken the world by storm . Professionals across industries have heralded the AI revolution, saying it is making their jobs much easier. However, there are some industries in which artificial intelligence must be treated with additional caution, such as the legal profession . According to Rob Scott, Chief Inn...
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Man Look, I screwed up. I got sidetracked. I’m supposed to be playing Advance Wars , but I’m also dealing with the uncomfortable truth that I don’t actually like Advance Wars as much as I thought. Instead, I spent this summer gorging on multiple titles in the Like a Dragon franchise. The series became one of my favorites in just a few years. The storytelling is often great, but even more appeal...
