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Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is Another Surprise
Ubisoft has developed XCOM: Baby Mode with a Nintendo license for the Switch called Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. It reminds me of my favorite JRPG, Super Mario RPG, because both games were developed by third-parties using a Mario license to get a genre of games out to more people than would normally try them.…
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Sonic Mania is a Surprisingly Good Sonic Game
I’ve been kind of blindsided by this one. Although I don’t enjoy many of the mechanics in even the supposedly good original Sonic games, there was something special about them at the time that has been elusive to any of the developers working on the countless Sonic games since the first few on the Genesis.…
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Prey (2017) Review
I can’t type the word “Prey” without thinking back to the 2006 game by Human Head and the 90’s Prey from 3D Realms that was never released. The Prey game in 2006 was inspired by the idea of portal technology from the 3D Realms game. The concept was that players could look through, and walk through,…
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The Crunch Article on Polygon
Polygon has published an excerpt from a book by Walt Williams, their headline: “Why I worship crunch”: When I worship at the unholy altar of Crunch, everything outside of the work fades away. By design, my world is reduced to where I sleep and where I work. Every day must be fast, focused, and above…
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Released
I loved Uncharted 4 (my review) and Naughty Dog were quick to follow up with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Game Informer’s Andrew Reiner: The Lost Legacy was originally intended to be a bonus episode for Uncharted 4, but ends up being a legitimate sequel that is every bit as fully featured as any of Drake’s…