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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has a lot of mini-games. Some might argue it has too many, some also might argue that there are more than we put on this list. The truth is, Rebirth is full of so many diversions from the strategic, action-based combat that you could argue anything that doesn’t have protagonist Cloud Strife swinging his giant sword around is a mini-game. We are trying to not get too in the weeds about what is and isn’t a mini-game, and go with what is most obviously outside of the game’…
about 2 months ago
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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, Highwater, and Star Wars: Battlefront collection are all dropping this week
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I’ve known that representation in games mattered ever since that day in 1987 when I finished Metroid and discovered that intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran was that rarest of things (for the time): a cool female video-game protagonist. I loved playing as Mario, or Link, or any intrepid hero, but I was particularly thrilled to see a game say that women can be heroes, too. Now, with games a more important cultural force than ever, the influential media advocacy organization GLAAD has released…
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To some, 2023 was one of the best years for video games in a long time. It didn’t quite land that way for me, but that’s okay. Even if I don’t rank the likes of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Baldur’s Gate 3 among the year’s best, I still admire the impulse they exhibit to try something fresh and new, or to make the familiar bigger and better, with orders of magnitude more intricacy and complexity than it’s ever been done. 2023 was, refreshingly, a year of big swings, in which the safe and convent…
4 months ago
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I put off writing this Alan Wake 2 review because I was scared. Scared that I’d look into myself and find I wasn’t up to the task, that I lacked the right words, with nothing to offer but emptiness and failure. It’s not at all uncommon, though, for writers to be wracked with doubt. Many years ago, I saw the novelist William Gibson give a talk in which he said that, at some point in the writing of every novel, he tells his wife he thinks it’s the worst book anyone’s ever written. Alan Wake 2, t…
6 months ago
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The other day, the official Twitter account for Alan Wake 2 tweeted, “You must write to escape…” and I felt my blood run cold. As a writer who knows the agony of writer’s block—the fear of looking inside myself and having to face all the doubts and insecurities lurking in my dark places as I struggle to put words on the page—the plight of Alan Wake has lingered with me for 13 years. Back in 2010, Remedy Entertainment’s prickly writer was one of the most unconventional heroes ever to star in his…
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When you first fire up The Making of Karateka, Digital Eclipse’s excellent interactive retrospective about Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner’s 1984 masterpiece, you’re greeted with this quote from his journals, written when he was just 18 years old: “My goal for this summer is to finish Karateka. If it’s half as big as I dream it may be, that should be enough to launch me into the Video Game World.” With this preface, The Making of Karateka makes its intentions crystal clear: not to dr…
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Antstream Arcade is rough around the edges, but I still want it to succeed
10 months ago
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Karateka, by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, is getting a full-featured retrospective release
10 months ago
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Nintendo builds on Breath of the Wild in wonderful ways with this inventive sequel
11 months ago
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Dr. Kishonna Gray’s studies of race and gender in gaming have made her a sought-after consultant in the industry
11 months ago
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Last week’s episode of The Last of Us was perhaps the show at its most bleak and devastating. Thankfully, episode six, entitled “Kin,” offers us a bit of a tonal reprieve, with enough scenes of hope and possibility for life in the post-cordyceps world to remind us that it is still possible to carve out lives worth living. That’s not to say that it lacks for emotional impact, however. On the contrary, it contains the scene that arguably serves as the crux for the emotional journey that Joel and…
about 1 year ago
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The discourse around the Harry Potter game has encompassed J.K. Rowling’s rancid politics and the role of criticism itself
about 1 year ago
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The 8-bit carnage of Vampire Survivors and the faded grandeur of Elden Ring captivated me this year
over 1 year ago
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IllFonic’s latest asymmetrical multiplayer game gets the details right, but lacks the depth to last
over 1 year ago
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Limited Run Games is launching its own publishing imprint, Press Run
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