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Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order- Hopes and Expectations

April 19, 2019

It’s a big week for Star Wars fans with ‘Jedi: Fallen Order’ and the trailer for ‘Episode IX’ hitting collectively. Personally, though, I’m only excited for ‘Fallen Order’. While there’s no telling [...]

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Yakuza: The charm of virtual Japan

April 15, 2019

I came into the Yakuza series fairly late. Having missed the entire series during its PS2/PS3 heyday, where it managed to acquire a massive cult audience. Like most guys who love jumping on the bandwagon, I finally joined the franchise fanbase when it hit [...]

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Why DmC: Devil May Cry Was A Bad DMC Game

March 8, 2019

Devil May Cry 5 is finally here, after an excruciating decade long wait (Seriously WTF) and fans all over the world are rejoicing the return of one of gaming’s most iconic franchises. Considering how dominant the franchise was in the PS2 era (with three [...]

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RESIDENT EVIL 2 REmake REview :: REvival Horror

March 3, 2019

Capcom’s 1998 survival horror classic RESIDENT EVIL 2 is a landmark game. Not just for it’s own genre – but for the gaming medium as a whole. It was a revolutionary title that aside from being a great game, helped pushed 3D gaming [...]

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DOOM anniversary: 25 years of Rip and Tear

December 25, 2018

ID Software’s seminal FPS franchise has finally completed a quarter of a century. And judging by how incredibly active the community is to this day, and how omnipresent it is still in cultural conversation—it can be said that it has proven to be eternally [...]

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Five Reasons Why Resident Evil 2 Remake Will Deliver Big Time

December 10, 2018

Capcom has experienced a phoenix-esque resurgence, and just in a matter of years—has gone from one of the most maligned developers to one of the most respected once again. It is all set to claim 2019 as its own, with two of the most anticipated releases [...]

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Why Fixed Camera Angles Were An Awesome Trend

December 6, 2018

In recent times, a lot of trends that were pioneered in the mid-late ’90s (but then later went away for some reason) have begun to rediscover their popularity. It seems like literally every two months, there’s a new (cool) homage/ throwback to old-school [...]

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Virtual Nostalgia : Ninja Gaiden

October 26, 2018

Team Ninja solidified themselves as an iconoclaustic, singular minded developer back in the early-mid 2000’s ( during the sixth generation of consoles). They made the games that they wanted to make, how they wanted to make it and whichever console they [...]

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