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Note: The following article contains minor spoilers for Buckshot Roulette, Carbon Steel, CORE, Crank It!, and Tartarus Engine. Throughout the first half of the 2020s, Mike Klubnika has remained a stalwart fixture of indie horror. An Estonian modeller, musician, VFX artist, and programmer, Klubnika is the emcee of oppressive and direful nightmares plated with rusting walls and tangled black cabl...
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They sure don't make them like this anymore! When a new month falls upon us next week, Giant Bomb and this community will embark on a new chapter and phase unlike any we have ever seen before. For those unaware, Giant Bomb will be transitioning to a new website, built from the ground up. With this transition, many of the features we have come to associate with Giant Bomb's site will change fund...
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I swear, this habit of finding intriguing Indie games on Game Pass and then discovering that they're yet another run-based thing is starting to wear me down a sukoshi. I realize that's just how the Indie scene is right now, while still gratefully also being vast enough to provide plenty of alternatives, but I'm ready for a different fad to strike (3D collectathon platformers? Please?). Well, th...
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Author's Note: In case you missed the previous parts to this series, here are the links: The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: Mike, The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse Than The 7th Guest [Part 1] The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse To Play Than 7th Guest [Part 2] The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse To Play...
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Galen Marek, better known as the Starkiller, is the last character for November 2025 in the Video Game Hall of Fame. He is also the first Star Wars character to join the elite group. Next week's character will be from Borderlands.
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RoboCop: Rogue City is a game with the odd reputation of being one of the best mediocre games of the 2020s. Its promoters, and there are many, all acknowledge that it’s a flawed game with a mid-sized budget and won’t blow your mind or land at the top of your all-time favorites list, unless you really love the license, but it satisfies that desire for a 15 hour straightforward campaign like we u...
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Note: The following article contains mild spoilers for Balatro. Maths can't mind its own business. Most other academic fields comment on a single area of interest: living organisms, the events of the past, human communication, etc. These subjects can stick to each other: you can combine biology and chemistry into biochemistry or history and art into the history of art, but each topic has a clea...
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After taking a few weeks off of rasslin, to the point where I didn’t even watch Wrestledream, Kitty and I are back to recap and review All Elite Wrestling Full Gear. A new thing I am going to do with these recaps is my predictions. It is about 11:15 in the morning the day of the show so these predictions are ready to go long before the show. Without further ado, let’s get to it! Some of these m...
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If I'm being truly honest with myself, my reluctance to get started on any run-based games (I've been batting around a few preferred genre names for this sort of thing that won't make it sound like a stealth simulator to anyone unversed in ancient DOS game history, but no dice so far beyond "resetter", which sounds like some sort of dog breed; I'll keep at it ) isn't actually due to the whole "...
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Welcome to the fourth installment of my Devil May Cry retrospective! Haven't read the first three? Well, click the links below! Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4: Conflicted. Not quite so iconic a face off. Originally released in 2008, but re-released with a Special Edition much later in 2015, Devil May Cry 4 is a bit of an odd one. The first “next gen” DMC after the PS2 era, it was also the first...
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Grinding through levels in Black Ops 7 can take hours, especially when every match is full of highly skilled players. Because of that, many players have started looking for easier ways to gain XP, complete challenges, and get camos without feeling stressed. This is where bot lobbies enter the picture. They offer a simpler and faster way to progress while keeping the fun alive. In fact, many pla...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 , otherwise known as the second most daring thing to happen to the French art world this year, is a turn-based RPG created by Sandfall Interactive , a new studio founded by ex-Ubi people. It presents a dystopian vision of late 19th century Paris after it was destroyed and twisted by some cataclysmic event and left behind survivors that are getting picked off in drove...
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Welcome back! In Part 1, we explored how developers pushed early-mid ‘80s console and computer hardware beyond its limits. Now we're moving into the mid-to-late '80s era of personal computers and arcades, when sound chips became more sophisticated and composers found even more creative ways to squeeze every last bit of quality from their hardware. This period saw the rise of 4-op FM synthesis,...
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Trading virtual items, particularly high-value skins in games like Counter-Strike 2, involves inherent risks. The digital nature of these assets means that once a trade is executed, reversing a fraudulent transaction often proves impossible. Maintaining vigilance and conducting thorough reputation checks are non-negotiable steps for any serious trader. Before committing to sending skins, verify...
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Razputin "Raz" Aquato is the next character to join the Video Game Hall of Fame as the first Psychonauts addition to the institution. Next week's character will be a Star Wars character.
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(Note that I'm assuming you've read the previous parts on the early evolution of game audio.) In the previous parts of this series, we explored the early evolution of sound and music in video games. Now it’s time for something a bit more specific: the unusual and innovative ways developers either pushed their hardware beyond its intended limits, or used it in an otherwise inventive way, affecti...
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Episode 001: GOOD GAME, NO REMATCH by Mike Drucker Join us as we set the stage for our journey through books, games, and all things story-driven. Whether you love branching paths or plot twists, this is where your next adventure begins! 🎧 Listen now on Spotify! 🎮✨ Wanna read along with the **Text Adventure Book Club**? This weekend we’re diving into ***Good Game, No Rematch*** by Mike Drucker —...
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Author's Note: In case you missed the previous parts to this series, here are the links: The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: Mike, The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse Than The 7th Guest [Part 1] The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse To Play Than 7th Guest [Part 2] The 9th Hour Riddle #16: Put an olive in a stein, mix it up, and get the equivalent of...
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We're a few weeks out from Halloween but that's no reason not to contemplate the afterlife and all the suffering and regret that irrevocably led us there from birth. Heck, it's my go-to thought whenever I'm at a stop light or a YouTube video is buffering for too long. It was only a few months back that I played a game that had its own distinctive concept of what awaits past the great beyond, th...
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They're heroes in a half shell and they are also green? Preposterous! Let's get the important stuff out of the way first: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is still a Bad Video Game for a couple reasons which I'll get into, but I cannot in good conscience have it at the bottom of the rankings anymore. In fact, it clears not just the Game Boy entries, but I will go a step further...
