Nathan Drake joins the Video Game Hall of Fame
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Our 24th character for 2023's Video Game Hall of Fame is Uncharted's Nathan Drake. The next character will be a League of Legends character.
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Our 24th character for 2023's Video Game Hall of Fame is Uncharted's Nathan Drake. The next character will be a League of Legends character.
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I started writing again... For the first time in years, I feel that writing itch and now love the feel of stretching it. I've written a few video game reviews here, most of them are reviews that I started a few years ago and for one reason or another didn't finish, most of them just stopped after the first or second draft. I've decided to somewhat retire from filmmaking (or at least semi-retire...
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Welcome back to the Mega Archive, still chronologically displaced thirty years to the day as we cover the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis 's release schedule for June 1993 in its entirety. A remarkable rarity for this Mega Archive is that we have almost zero crossover with the SNES: it's all going to be system exclusives and PC/Amiga/Arcade ports this time around, with just one exception. The genre bre...
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I’ve reached a point in my life where I can’t pretend I’m young anymore. Once you cross into your 40s you’re firmly middle aged, and while I’ve had gray hair for awhile it’s now started thinning and there are wrinkles slowly etching their way into my face. I’m generally okay with this, but one place I’m starting to feel my age is in my gaming. It’s not just about carving out time or the fact th...
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There’s been a lot of discussion about all the problems with the now dead Intellivision Amico project from its lack of a reasonable market to its price point to its horrible controller. There has been discussion about how bad some of the games look, and the lack of a killer app, but I think one thing that has gone a little under the radar (though not unmentioned) is how badly the proposed game...
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If I'd been paying more attention I could've been crafting some ironclad rules of IGotW all this time, one of which would undoubtably be "if there's an Indie Souls borne or explormer out there, I'm playing it eventually". Mortal Shell is a case of the former, fully immersing itself in the choking fog of mechanical obfuscation and grimdark subtextual storytelling that is FromSoft 's "dread and b...
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For a lot of people this question is going to seem stupid and pointless and it kind of is, but it's something I've been thinking about. I owned a PlayStation during its relevant cycle. Ape Escape was a big release towards the end of that cycle and though I played demos and eventually picked up a Greatest Hits copy on the cheap, I never actually played the whole thing. Until it released for PS4/...
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Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet is the 75th character to join my Video Game Hall of Fame. Up next will be another PlayStation favorite.
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Hey, we're back again, Doing the Mario. That is, doing a particularly arduous playthrough of Super Mario 64 in which I attempt to earn all 132 of its Retro Achievements . I've since cooled down on achievements as a target in video gaming in general, no longer chasing the things as an excuse to make my numbers go up but carefully studying them before starting a game (excepting the spoiler story...
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2023's kind of upended tradition by packing its first summer month with a lion's share of big releases, when really the summer's meant to be peak time for backlog-clearing and beating the heat with some chill "podcast gaming" a la long RPGs and open-world collectathons. Not that I particularly mind a busy release month but I'm not letting that change my usual schedule here; my first Indie Game...
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Preamble It's now been 10 years since the announcement of the Xbox One all-in-one entertainment system https://t.co/WWnNcTfHNj pic.twitter.com/afr1QSu65f — Wario64 (@Wario64) May 21, 2023 My, how time flies. As Wario64's Tweet reminds us, it's been over ten years since Don Mattrick took the stage and presented the Xbox One, an all-encompassing multimedia-minded console priced at $499.99/£429.99...
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We're in 2023, which means that we're in the 10th year of the PS4 and Xbox One. Both systems just got 2 huge new releases in the form of Diablo IV and Street Fighter VI. They also continue to get the vast majority of indie or AA games, even if some of the AAA stuff has finally started to skip them, now that the new systems are nearing 3 years old and are entering their traditional primes. While...
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You know what's nutty? I update the current year's " Games Beaten " list every month and usually average about five or six additions (mostly Indies for IGotW ) along with a summary mini-review and score. This month I'll be updating the list with 28 new entries. I'll also have to go back and add wiki pages for a lot of these, obscure as they are. My intent, of course, was never to pad out my gam...
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The fifth console generation. PS1, N64, Voodoo graphics on PC and now insanely expensive 2D games for the Saturn. This was a time when shamelessly clunky 3D models were put on the front of magazines and game boxes while young people and games journalists tried to forget that 2D was still a thing. A time when you could walk into a store, pick a few random games and end up discovering about as ma...
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The next entry in my Video Game Hall of Fame is Marcus Fenix of Gears of War fame. Next week's character will be someone who debuted on PS3.
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This all started because I wanted to play some Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. I don't know if this was because of the impending release of Street Fighter 6 or just a random urge that drifted up from my subconscious but I couldn't shake it and I decided that the easiest way to satisfy it would be to play the 360 port, which I bought when it was released way back in 2009. Of course the 360 store page was l...
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DISCLAIMER: This post does not contain any story spoilers outside of a dedicated spoiler block, which even then is not specific. However, this is unfortunately one of those games where it’s best to keep as many surprises for yourself as possible, and I will write in detail about mechanics and structure that is best discovered on your own. Also, this post is based on a 50-hour playthrough where...
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I want to be clear that the true victims of the Intellivision Amico saga are the investors who got swindled out of their cash and the pre-order customers who were promised refunds but didn't get them. Intellivision lied about a lot of things on its way to becoming the biggest phantomware flameout in modern gaming history, and it made off with millions of dollars via shady crowdfunding campaigns...
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“Reviewing” Muv-luv Altered Fable My almost two months long journey through the Muv-luv series had reached its more or less natural conclusion with Alternative’s fan disc, Altered Fable. Of course, there is no such product titled Muv-luv Altered Fable on Steam, only a little thing subtitled Photomelodies including a mini game less version of Altered Fable. The point-of-view character Takeru Shi...
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Let me start this by saying it is not a burial of Beat Saber. I bought it for PSVR1 but never played it because I am constantly overestimating my appetite for VR games,* but when the free upgrade was announced I downloaded it immediately as an excuse to get back into my PSRV2, which has been collecting dust since the first week I had it. Beat Saber is a great game. It reminds me a lot of Rock B...
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May has a lot of days in it, turns out, and so I've been filling it with as many playthroughs of smallish (1-4 hour) Itch.io Indie games as I can manage. This is all in service of honoring the huge charity bundles Itch.io and its power users started curating around this time three years ago, though really it's an excuse to cut some of my Itch.io backlog down to something could be laughably desc...
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So, the sixth console generation. A period of about ten years if we start counting from the release of the Dreamcast and stop after only the PS2 is left standing. While I gradually gravitated away from modern (at least console) games during this period, towards other interests like music, film and books, I did give most of the bigger PS2 titles a chance and occasionally played through some of t...
