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 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Ten Years

Spike Chunsoft didn't become synonymous with "bizarre mysteries and gruesome deaths" until the mid-2010s when the Danganronpa series exploded in popularity in both Japan and the West. Unfortunately,…

November 17, 2020 | 01:00 EST

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Fallout 4: 5 Years Later - An Apocalyptic Sandbox Gone Horribly Right

When Todd Howard stepped onto the stage at Bethesda's E3 Press Conference in 2015, the crowd went wild. Everyone knew what was coming. The most open secret in video games, the legendary Fallout 4,…

November 13, 2020 | 11:00 EST

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Fable 3 10th Anniversary - Why This Black Sheep Deserves A Remake

I can’t imagine that even the most ardent Fable fans among you have this date on your calendar, or want to celebrate it. Oct. 26, 2020, marks the 10th birthday of Fable III, and as is pretty much…

October 26, 2020 | 01:00 EDT

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The Secret of Monkey Island - A 30-Year Look Back

“Hi! My name is Guybrush Threepwood and I want to be a pirate!” With that, 30 years ago, history was made, and adventure games as a genre went off on what was one of their weirdest adventures yet.…

October 16, 2020 | 01:00 EDT

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10 Years Later: Pokemon Black and White's Top 10 Pokemon

Since the release of Pokemon Red & Blue in 1996, Game Freak have followed the philosophy that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. They found a winning formula of catching, evolving, and battling a…

September 22, 2020 | 01:00 EDT

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Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep - A 10th Anniversary Retrospective

Kingdom Hearts is known to be a confusing series, not for the faint of heart. With three main numbered entries, four (soon-to-be five) unnumbered main entries on console and three mobile games, two…

September 7, 2020 | 01:00 EDT

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Mario Tennis Turns 20 - A Look Back at a Classic

I learned tennis from Mario Tennis. Don’t think I picked up a rack and hit the local courts, mind you. I was too obsessed with playing the game to go outside and play actual tennis.  I was never…

July 21, 2020 | 11:00 EDT

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“GG, Gratz”: Starcraft II Wings Of Liberty 10th Anniversary

Love, betrayal, and insectoid alien thingies that infest you until you beg for death—StarCraft has everything that gives lasting power to any space opera. Since Blizzard's seminal real-time strategy…

July 27, 2020 | 12:00 EDT

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Diablo 2 at 20 Years

Diablo 4 is coming. We don't know exactly when to expect it, and many of its details remain mysterious. However, we've seen a few elements, from skill trees to runes to the return of the druid and…

June 29, 2020 | 12:00 EDT

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25 Years Of EarthBound

 I was about 75% of the way through EarthBound when I realized I’d equipped my protagonist with a joke weapon. The Casey Bat is a reference to a slightly obscure Ernest Thayer poem from 1888. In…

June 5, 2020 | 12:00 EDT

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Ten Years Of Souls - A Demon's Souls Retrospective

For many gamers, the Souls series needs no introduction. Since the release of Dark Souls for Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011 (a PC release would follow in 2012), the series has garnered an intense cult…

February 5, 2019 | 02:00 EST

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Fallout 2 Turns 20

Say you’re hired by a gang boss to assassinate an important man. You’ve done something like this before in many games. Most of these scenarios take place in a level where you’ll have to bypass…

September 30, 2018 | 02:00 EDT

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35 Years Of Influence - A Look Back at Origin Systems, Creators of Ultima and More

There was a whole lot going on in the world of computers and games in the years leading up to the founding of Origin Systems in 1983. It was the golden age of the arcades, and Dungeons & Dragons…

April 19, 2018 | 01:00 EDT