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Note: The following article contains major spoilers for R.U.R., Blade Runner, and Silicon Dreams. Most science fiction about A.I. externalises one of two anxieties: Either that synthetic intelligences will oppress us or that we'll oppress them. Both concerns go right back to the creation of the term "robot". Czech writer Karel Čapek invented the word for R.U.R., his 1921 play. In his story, a f...
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Game : Tribute Games 's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge . Release Month : June. Quick Look : Here (Jan, Grubb, Lucy, Tamoor, Jason, Rorie). Started : 25/01. Completed : 28/01. As an '80s kid, I absolutely adored the TMNT arcade game developed by Konami , to the extent that I fell for the same trap many kids my age did by asking for the home video game that turned out not to be...
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I have been sent to Multimedia Hell for my sins against chronogaming, and the Multimedia Devil looks surprisingly like Trip Hawkins (I was expecting Tom Zito). Most of the wretched souls in Multimedia Hell have torments such as being stabbed with Encarta CDs or being forced to eternally watch whatever this is supposed be. In my case, the punishment is to play every 3DO game and guide you throug...
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In my ongoing mission to exhaust Game Pass of all the explormer s it currently has available before I'm forced to pay for it like a sucker, we come to the last one I could find: Phigames 's Recompile from 2021. The game has you explore the dilapidated infrastructure of a long-dormant super AI as a sapient program introduced to the system with the ultimate goal of repairing as much of its progra...
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What Exactly Was Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier? The service has ended on January 11th, 2023. Thank you SOLDIER candidates for playing FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER. #FF7FS pic.twitter.com/dFqmyA6p8C — FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER_EN｜FF7FS (@FFVII_FS_EN) January 11, 2023 On January 11th, 2023, Square-Enix shut down Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier . That date marked a gam...
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The free new mode is out for Hitman 3 (now renamed to Hitman: World of Assassination ), and I'd been looking forward to it since it was announced early last year as something that might help reinvigorate my interest in the game. I love Hitman , but at some point you've done everything there is to do. I've spent a few hours playing it today and have some thoughts. For the most part, I think the...
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PLAYER PHASE I was going to finish this blog last week before FE Engage came out but then two people from this website got laid off and I had to deal with existential peril haha lol. Pour one out for Jason and Jess. Much to my chagrin, I am not a being with infinite time and infinite patience. Playing enough of a tactics game to feel comfortable writing 3-5 paragraphs about it is a surprisingly...
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M apping Fire Emblem Three Houses cast members upon Naussica cast of characters Part 2 those remain in print only On one episode of History On Fire podcast episode with guests , host Daniele Bolelli said “Most people are not evil. Most people are weak. And weakness is fertile ground where evil can thrive.” It’s a line that would summarize the 1984 film titled Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind...
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An explanation of what I'm doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last week we looked at a round-up of all Sega Saturn games released in 1995 . The last time we were with this series we looked at NBA in the Zone, Zero Divide, Bases Loaded '96: Double Header, and Road Rash . This time we will kick-off the 1996 PS1 release calendar with Cyberia , Revolution X , Philosoma , and Goal Sto...
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Game : Geography of Robots 's Norco . Release Month : March. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 23/01. Completed : 25/01. Man, what is with 2022 and weirdass narratives? First Signalis and now this. Norco is a traditional point-and-click game with a vaguely '90s pixel aesthetic but when I say traditional the general game mechanics are really the only thing to which that term applies. Set in the titula...
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Like 4.7 million other people , I tuned in to watch HBO’s broadcast of The Last of Us , the television adaption of Naughty Dog’s hit post-apocalyptic zombie game. Lots of people have written of the similarities and differences between the game and the show, and there’s really nothing more to be said about them; instead, I want to talk about how a show so rooted in the fandom of its source mater...
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Our fourth character added to the Video Game Hall of Fame 2023 is Doom's Doom Slayer, joining rival Master Chief. Next week's addition will be a Playstation 2 favorite.
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M apping Fire Emblem Three Houses cast members upon Naussica characters T his one came to me when watching Arknights Prelude to Dawn, the animated adaption of a tower defense game on phones . Whenever I was in mood to see episode end credits, I looked at the Japanese voice cast and thought “Ah, she, she and she were in Fi r e Emblem Three Houses.” Combined with the fact that Arknights’ brand of...
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Note: The following article contains major spoilers for A Plague Tale: Innocence and mild spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Do you know what game realises its world brilliantly? The first half of A Plague Tale: Innocence. As its title suggests, Asobo Studio's action-adventure tells the story of its protagonists losing their childhood naivety to a cruel and blighted adulthood. T...
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Game : Poncle 's Vampire Survivors . Release Month : October. Quick Look : Here (Unfinished with Jeff Gerstmann, Jan, and Rorie). Started : 17/01. Completed (Sorta?) : 21/01. I realize I'm late to the Monster Mash here but Vampire Survivors was one of those games I was putting off initially in part because I'd already satiated myself on the mechanically identical Vtuber fangame HoloCure but als...
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The Gunk ! I feel like the internet had a great ol' time with that name when this game was announced at a 2020 Xbox Showcase but then the game itself kinda came and went back in December 2021, late enough that it missed GOTY for most outlets. I didn't peer too closely at The Gunk at the time either because I'd already made up my mind that I was going to see it for myself—it was the newest game...
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Well it has happened. Google Stadia is officially a dead platform. For the vast majority of gamers this is pretty meaningless because most of us never even tried Stadia, or quickly abandoned it if we did. For a few people it means they have lost their main way of interacting with games, and I feel bad for them though at least they got their money back and in some cases were able to export their...
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Third on my list of 2023's Video Game Hall of Fame is Halo's Master Chief. Next week's entrant will be a character similar to Master Chief.
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Game : Coin Crew Games 's Escape Academy . Release Month : July. Quick Look : Here (Jess / Grubb). Started : 15/01. Completed : 16/01. I love escape rooms. Not the real thing of course as that would involve talking to and being in close proximity to other human beings. No, I'm talking about escape rooms in its purest form: the video game escape room, where so many components—like running around...
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Author's Note: This is the second part of my retrospective on The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge . If you missed the first part of this retrospective, here's a link: The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzles - The Legend of Kyrandia - Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge [Part 1] If you enjoy this blog and would like to read my other adventure game retrospectives, here's a list of my previ...
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Yours truly is in the “minority” when it comes to the Last of Us. By which I mean I loathed it so deeply that I developed a general distrust regarding strangers on the internet telling m e what ’ s “a great game”. It had been 8 years since I touched the game on PS3. So this new show on HBO presented itself as an op port unity for yours truly to play the devil’s advocate against this “masterpiec...
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This year's list is shorter and more incomplete than what I’m used to doing. I had some life stuff happen (don’t worry, all good stuff) and a consequence of that was having less time to play games and getting wayyyyy behind on new games. I did also have some old games that I played that were quite time-consuming that could have easily accounted for multiple smaller games, but alas…. Anyway, I w...
