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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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GoldenEye 007 (1997) — The Split-Screen King’s Last Week on Game Pass
N64 · FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER · FROM THE VAULT — REPLAY REVIEW Developer: Rare · Publisher: Nintendo · Released: August 25, 1997 (North…
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Shrek 2 Remastered: The 2004 Tie-In Comes Back Tuesday
Far Far Away is so, so back — Aspyr’s words, and for once the marketing undersells it slightly. Shrek 2 Remastered launches…
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Viva Piñata at 20: The Garden That Hid a Hardcore Sim
XBOX 360 · GARDEN SIMULATION · RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW Developer: Rare · Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios · Released: November 9, 2006 · Genre:…
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Halo 2 at 22: The Night Xbox Live Grew Up
XBOX · FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER · RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW Developer: Bungie · Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios · Released: November 9, 2004 · Genre: First-person…
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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.
