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  • Digital: A Love Story is one of the few games in which the player assumes the very position they’re currently sitting in, using a computer interface to explore a game’s...

    Digital: A Love Story

    Digital: A Love Story is one of the few games in which the player assumes the very position they’re currently sitting in, using a computer interface to explore a game’s...

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  • When the original Nintendo DS launched, mainstream handheld gaming experienced a small revolution. The launch lineup was abysmal, yet possibly even better than the lineup the 3DS established. But the...

    Hardware: 3DS

    When the original Nintendo DS launched, mainstream handheld gaming experienced a small revolution. The launch lineup was abysmal, yet possibly even better than the lineup the 3DS established. But the...

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  • Rolling Thunder is an arcade game from the ’80s. Like most games of its kind it is very simple, has very clear goals, and tries rather hard to murder the...

    Rolling Thunder

    Rolling Thunder is an arcade game from the ’80s. Like most games of its kind it is very simple, has very clear goals, and tries rather hard to murder the...

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  • Some of the best examples of genre-defining video games come from the Nintendo 64 era. In the realm of scrolling shooters, there are surprisingly few entries, but the games that...

    Star Fox 64

    Some of the best examples of genre-defining video games come from the Nintendo 64 era. In the realm of scrolling shooters, there are surprisingly few entries, but the games that...

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  • I never played the first entry in the Dirt series. I haven’t been paying much attention to Codemasters at all, but when I downloaded the Dirt 2 demo and ended...

    Dirt 2

    I never played the first entry in the Dirt series. I haven’t been paying much attention to Codemasters at all, but when I downloaded the Dirt 2 demo and ended...

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  • I’m always a little skeptical when a game is a 3D reboot of a 2D series, but there have been enough good examples of this for me to give Metroid...

    Metroid Prime

    I’m always a little skeptical when a game is a 3D reboot of a 2D series, but there have been enough good examples of this for me to give Metroid...

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  • Arkham Asylum is the most pleasant surprise I’ve ever had playing a video game. I didn’t expect anything more than a cash-in on the poor, defenseless Batman franchise, and in...

    Batman: Arkham Asylum

    Arkham Asylum is the most pleasant surprise I’ve ever had playing a video game. I didn’t expect anything more than a cash-in on the poor, defenseless Batman franchise, and in...

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