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Why The Last of Us Part 1 Has The Most Effective Opening In Gaming

It's the dead of night. The cinema is glaring down the street with its bright neon lights, the gas station picks up the random straggler looking for fuel, and many are still awake from the threat of…

September 1, 2022 | 11:00 EDT

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More Minecraft Slabs and Stairs Would Make for a Better Game

There are quite a few Minecraft slabs and stairs available in the game. Not every single block type can be crafted into a new shape—and boy, would it be nice to have a little more variety. Minecraft…

May 5, 2021 | 01:00 EDT

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Despite Everything, There Needs to be a Days Gone Sequel

April 2021 was always going to be a big month for Days Gone, Bend Studio's 2019 open-world action survival game. The game just celebrated its two year anniversary, and to celebrate Sony, has made…

April 28, 2021 | 12:00 EDT

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8 Things I'd Like To See In Astroneer

I recently previewed the sci-fi sandbox Astroneer and had an absolute blast with the game. It's just past version 0.5 and has a lot of the game's core systems sorted out, and we're less than a year…

February 14, 2018 | 11:00 EST

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Brendan Greene’s 100 million PUBG Active Users Target is Absurd

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has hit some pretty insane targets since it released back in March this year. It’s already crossed 10 million copies sold on PC alone, and actually at times overtaken…

September 8, 2017 | 09:00 EDT

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2016 in Review: Lessons Learned From No Man's Sky, The Division, and More

With the release of games like Overwatch, Dishonored 2, Stellaris, and DOOM (just to name a few), 2016 certainly had no shortage of (generally) well-received titles. By the time the holiday season…

January 6, 2017 | 01:00 EST

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Quick Thoughts: No Man's Sky - It's About The Journey

Its pretty clear that No Man's Sky might be the most divisive game to have been released in quite some time. While it would have been easy to talk about what I personally don't like about the game…

August 17, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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Predicting E3 2016: Sony

E3 is right around the corner and its time for a few predictions! Sony has held strong as the Playstation 4 is arguably the leading game console. It's an exciting time to be a Playstation fan with so…

June 10, 2016 | 01:00 EDT

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The Devil's Advocate: Is E3 Nothing More than Empty Promises?

At its core, E3 is the rough equivalent of having your parents tell you what you are getting for Christmas ahead of time. You've got all these big developers and publishers going on stage and…

May 30, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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Most Anticipated Games of 2016 – No Man's Sky

2016 is an exciting year for people like me. With the advancing technology edging us forever closer to the promise of being able to explore actual universes it becomes increasingly less of a problem…

February 26, 2016 | 01:00 EST

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The Great Wild Yonder

Ever since I was a little kid wistfully looking up at the stars, I've always longed for a chance of going up there myself to see the universe a bit closer than I can from down here. Since a career as…

January 5, 2016 | 09:00 EST

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The New Yorker Festival's Tech@Fest – No Man's Sky

Following the conclusion of the New Yorker Festival's Tech@Fest panel Cyber Privacy: Who Owns Your Information? (which I covered for TechRaptor here), I had about an hour to grab a bite to eat and…

October 6, 2015 | 09:00 EDT

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Most Anticipated Game of Fall 2015 – No Man's Sky?

It is really hard to describe the allure of No Man's Sky. For such an ambitious, overreaching game, it has certainly made a significant impact in the past year and a half with constant updates…

August 30, 2015 | 01:00 EDT