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The 16-Bit RPGs That Still Outclass Modern Games
Every few years I sit down with a modern blockbuster — some gorgeous, hundred-hour epic with a map the size of a…
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The GeForce 8800 GTX at 20: The Card That Taught PCs to Compute
Twenty years ago today — November 8, 2006 — the biggest, hungriest graphics card most of us had ever handled went on…
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Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor — The D&D RPG That Came Back From the Dead
Some games get remasters. This one got a resurrection. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor — Stormfront Studios’ 2001 Dungeons &…
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Elevator Action (1983) — The Spy Who Rode the Lift
Every spy story I loved as a kid started the same way: a man alone, at night, somewhere he was not supposed…
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Sonic 3D Blast at 30: The Genesis Swan Song That Faked 3D and (Mostly) Got Away With It
Sonic 3D Blast · Developer: Traveller’s Tales and Sonic Team · Publisher: Sega · Released: November 8, 1996 (Genesis) · Genre: Isometric platformer · Thirty years on, we revisit the pre-rendered swan song, the Saturn port, and the Director’s Cut its own programmer shipped in 2017.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at 15: The Biggest Launch in History, Built by a Studio in Pieces
Fifteen years after it became the biggest entertainment launch of all time, Modern Warfare 3 remains the trilogy’s loudest chapter — finished by a rebuilt Infinity Ward and a borrowed studio. Our retrospective review.
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Gears of War at 20: The Cover Shooter That Rebuilt the Xbox 360
Gears of War · Developer: Epic Games · Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios · Released: November 7, 2006 (Xbox 360) · Genre: Third-person…
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Necromancer: Undead Legion — The Dentist Who Taught Himself to Code an Army of the Dead
Full disclosure up front, because this one needs it: this is not a retro story. There is no cartridge, no FPGA core,…
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A Dreamcast Controller That Puts the Console Online — No Modem, No DreamPi
Every Dreamcast owner knows the ritual. To get Sega’s last console online in 2026, you either hunt down a Broadband Adapter that…
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Romancing SaGa 3 (1995) — The Freeform RPG, and the Man Who Brought It West
Developer: Square · Publisher: Square (now Square Enix) · Original release: November 11, 1995 (Super Famicom, Japan) · Genre: Role-playing game Some…
