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Thief (2014) Xbox 360 Review: A Master Thief Caught Stealing From Himself
At a glance: Platform: Xbox 360 (also PS3, PS4, Xbox One, PC) · Developer: Eidos-Montréal · Released: February 2014 · Genre: first-person…
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Numskull’s Street Fighter Shirts: The £22 Drop That Started a Merch Empire
Five T-shirts do not usually mark the start of a licensing empire. But in the summer of 2015, when British merchandise company Numskull teamed up with Capcom to launch a small range of limited-edition
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R-Type Deluxe: The Atari STe Port That Fixed 1988
Some ports take twenty-seven years to arrive. In June 2015 this site carried a piece of news that read like a correction to the historical record: R-Type, Irem’s 1987 arcade masterpiece, was being rebuilt for the Atari STe, not as…
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The Complete NES: The Checklist Book That Tamed 700 Cartridges
The Complete NES collector’s book began with a problem every serious Nintendo collector knows by heart: the library is too big to hold in your head. The North American NES catalogue runs to well over
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Presented Without Commentary: Hedgehog ‘Misjudges His Own Girth’
Every so often, a gaming site must stop for the story that actually matters. In June 2015, that story arrived from Suffolk, where the hedgehog who misjudged his girth — a well-fed European hedgehog —
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Asuka 120% Limit Over: The Fan-Patched Fighter That Outlived Its Maker
The strangest fighting game on the Sega Saturn began as a budget dispute. Asuka 120% Limit Over is the fan-refined, semi-official final form of Asuka 120% Burning Fest. Limited — an all-girl school-cl
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Blood: Cryptic Passage Review – Caleb’s Other Bloodbath
At a glance: Blood: Cryptic Passage (PC, 1997) · Official expansion for Monolith’s Blood · Developed by Sunstorm Interactive · One new episode, nine levels · Score: 8.0/10
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Ghosts’n Goblins Arcade: The Commodore 64 Remake That Finished the Job
Every C64 owner of a certain age remembers the disappointment hiding inside a game they loved. Elite’s 1986 conversion of Capcom’s Ghosts’n Goblins was, by the standards of 8-bit arcade ports, a trium
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King of Kings: The Famicom Wargame That Fed Megami Tensei
Every so often a fan translation opens a door onto a game with a secret second life, and the King of Kings Famicom strategy game is a perfect case. Namco’s 1988 hex-based wargame spent 27 years locked
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800 Hours of Yarn: The Man Who Crocheted Super Mario Bros. 3
Plenty of fans own Super Mario Bros. 3. Kjetil Nordin spent six years making it — not the game, but its world, rendered in yarn at full scale. The Super Mario Bros. 3 crochet rug he completed in 2015