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Monster Hunter Rise: Demo Impressions

January 14, 2021

Capcom finally released the demo for their upcoming Monster Hunter sequel, Rise, on the Switch–and after spending a decent amount of time with it, we’re happy to report that things are looking really solid. As not-hardcore fans of the series, [...]

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Games of the Year 2020: DOOM Eternal

January 12, 2021

Back in 2016, ID Software’s reboot of their flagship series offered a tetanus shot to the increasing malaise of the FPS genre–and to its own franchise. Coming out of nowhere, the game managed to ‘glory-kill’ (see what I did?) the [...]

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BRAVELY DEFAULT 2 :Final Demo Impressions

December 28, 2020

Full Disclosure: Prior to trying out this demo, I wasn’t familiar with the earlier build that was released–as well as Square’s first BRAVELY DEFAULT title. I’ve been told repeatedly that it was a very successful JRPG throwback to [...]

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Why ‘NO MORE HEROES’ Still Rules in 2020

November 20, 2020

In a bit of welcome news, both NO MORE HEROES and NO MORE HEROES 2: DESPARATE STRUGGLE got re-releases on the Nintendo Switch. For gamers of a certain temperment, this was indeed great news. As the decade-plus since they spent heralding the virtues of [...]

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Games Of The Decade #22: Alan Wake- Stephen King, David Lynch and Max Payne Collide

January 18, 2020

Aside from ALIEN/ALIENS, David Lynch’s landmark TV series TWIN PEAKS is that other seminal piece of media that games have displayed very little shame in borrowing elements from (Read: totally ripping off). Some do it well, some suck at it, and you [...]

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Games Of The Decade #25: The King of Fighters 14, An SNK Masterwork

January 16, 2020

Despite making some of the most innovative fighting games in history, SNK have long been the underdogs of the genre (imagine that). Their previous forays into 3-D didn’t really match the quality and charisma of their 2D fighters. That was until, [...]

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Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening Review:

December 18, 2019

As someone who jumped on the Zelda bandwagon with the original OCARINA OF TIME, I’ve only been familiar with the series in all its incarnations in the third dimension. I’ve played and loved everything from WIND WAKER to BOTW, but titles like A LINK TO THE [...]

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Kojima Countdown: Analyzing the METAL GEAR SOLID Series- Part 2

October 3, 2019

In part one of our somewhat less emotional and more poker-faced perspective on the anthropomorphic presence that likes to call itself ‘Hideo Kojima’, we cataloged his rise to fame when he finally was able to successfully translate the Stealth-action [...]

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