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Dr. Eggman, Sonic's worst enemy, is the fourth villain to join my Video Game Hall of Fame, joining the likes of Bowser, Ganondorf, and King Dedede. The next character to join will be a Namco villain.
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Newborns look way more like this than I've ever been comfortable with. Parenting in the time of video games is a very strange thing. The predictable effect is that you have far less time for gaming than you did before there were squirming and squealing half-copies of yourself roaming your living space. We all make sacrifices (RIP Civilization series), but they’re worth it. The less predictable...
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Ahhh, nothing like that new computer smell. And there's nothing like knowing that you can now play the dozens of Indie games you picked up in bundles, on sale, or the weekly freebie from EGS or sometimes sites like GOG whenever sales hit that you put in a special folder called "pfft, maybe someday" because your potato PC practically mashed itself looking at their specs. Suffice it to say, the I...
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King of Fighters fans, rejoice!!! Another KOF favorite joins my Video Game Hall of Fame, and it's Benimaru Nikaido. He is the fourth KOF character to join my Video Game Hall of Fame (joining Terry, Joe, and Kyo). Next week's addition will be a classic video game villain.
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Minogueamy For a defined period of time (might I suggest one month), the challenged member of the Giant Bomb staff must forsake all music except that performed by Australia's Kylie Minogue. This reasoning extends to the realms of film and television as well, by which I mean the only TV programming you'll be watching for the predefined period will be reruns of Neighbours . More to follow, maybe....
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When a flood happens, what are you supposed to do? Once the water has cleared, you need to get your carpets dry as soon as possible. This is where a professional carpet cleaner comes in. When you call a professional carpet cleaning company, they can help remove the water, clean and disinfect your carpets, and dry them so that you can use your home again. If you want to dry your carpets yourself...
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Note: The following article makes brief mentions of sexual assault. It also contains moderate spoilers for Neo Cab. For a long time, the automated car has felt so close to becoming a reality, yet so far . On the one hand, we're flush with personal AI assistants and image recognition algorithms. Our factories have been automated for decades, and our phones can use adaptive computer code to erase...
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Excellent tidings, y'all. If you've been following this feature for any of its nearly six years in service you're probably used to seeing me add figurative asterisks after every perceived technical issue, with the caveat that my system might be comparatively less able to perform the task at hand constructed as it is out of twigs, berries, and tree sap. No longer! Thanks to the Black Friday sale...
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An explanation of what I'm doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last week we looked at the launch lineup of Clockwork Knight, Daytona USA, Panzer Dragoon, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Virtua Fighter, and Worldwide Soccer: Sega International Victory Goal Edition . This week we will look at the few games released for the Saturn in July and August 1995: Bug! , Myst , Astal , Robotica , an...
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King Dedede, of Kirby fame, joins his rival Kirby in my Video Game Hall of Fame. He is the third Nintendo villain to join the ranks, after Bowser and Ganondorf. Next week's character will be a classic SNK brawler.
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I was one of the lucky ones who got an Xbox Series X on launch day, from Microsoft at MSRP. It arrived on November 10 and I was enamored both of the box and the shape of the console itself. After the Xbox one had been a boxy, boring, thing that was nicknamed "the VCR," the Series X has a cool obelisk shape, reminiscent of a PC mini-tower from the 90s but with only a disc drive and that glowing...
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One major gap in my video gaming history, which becomes all the more apparent with each passing episode of Arcade Pit, are the Mega Man X series and the Zero es and ZX s beyond. I was a huge fan of the NES originals and the Mega Man Legends quasi-RPG dungeon-crawlers, yet I've never taken the plunge into the longest and certainly most lore-intensive of the many Mega Man spin-offs. My goal is to...
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While your team carefully clean up at the end of every night (as well as may also involve a commercial cleaner in Melbourne to help lighten the load), there are particular messes and areas that you can not get around to or are too hard to clean up on your own. There's never been a better time to get your business kitchen deep cleaned than now! But what is the cooking area deep cleaning, anyhow?...
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An explanation of what I'm doing here can be found in my introduction post . This week, we will look at the games available for the North American launch of the Sega Saturn on 5/11/95: Clockwork Knight , Daytona USA , Panzer Dragoon , Pebble Beach Golf Links , Virtua Fighter , and Worldwide Soccer: Sega International Victory Goal Edition . -------------------------------------------------------...
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I have never touched any piece of Sega hardware even once in my life. All my exposure to Sega games from their hardware manufacturing days has either come from re-releases, videos, or occasional emulator tinkering. The Genesis and its library have been relatively easy for me to get my mind around. The tragedy of the Dreamcast has been extensively discussed in multiple venues, and there is relat...
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Hitman's Agent 47 is the first 2000s debutant to join my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week will be a classic Nintendo villain.
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