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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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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Goes Physical Today — Pre-Orders Open at Noon
Set an alarm. Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition goes physical on Nintendo Switch 2 today, Friday November 6, and pre-orders…
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EA Just Shadow-Dropped 25 PC Classics — Road Rash and Wing Commander, Restored From the Master Tapes
EA did not announce this one and then make everyone wait six months. At the first-ever GOG Showcase on Thursday, November 5,…
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THE 800XL Has Gone Gold: Atari’s 8-Bit Revival Is Real Now
There is a phrase you do not use lightly in hardware, and Retro Games Ltd used it on November 4: THE 800XL…
Reviews
Terranigma (1995) — The Masterpiece America Never Got
There is a particular kind of heartbreak only retro gamers of a certain age will recognise: reading about a game in a…
Reviews
SSX Tricky at 25: The Loudest Snowboard Game Ever Made
At a glance: SSX Tricky · EA Canada / EA Sports BIG · PlayStation 2 (6 November 2001, North America), GameCube and…
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ZERO: The Game Boy Color Just Got an F-Zero
The Game Boy Color launched in 1998 with a colour screen, a modest speed bump and absolutely no hardware for rotating a…
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Ocarina of Time Is Back: The Remake Arrives on Switch 2
Today, November 5, the centrepiece of Zelda’s 40th anniversary lands: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, rebuilt from the ground up,…
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Thief: The Dark Project (1998) — The Stealth Blueprint
Some games invent a genre and then watch everyone else spend thirty years catching up. Thief: The Dark Project did something ruder:…
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at 19: The Shooter That Rewrote the Rules
Nineteen years after it walked away from the Second World War, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare remains the shooter everything else is measured against: a film-tight campaign, All Ghillied Up, and the multiplayer template a generation copied. Our retrospective review.
