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Will Wright’s game of life came out a few months after the world appeared to be going into meltdown with rumours of the millennium bug destroying every computer ever built. Thankfully, our desktops all survived and thus countless hours of real lives were poured into this virtual world of
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The Nazis have been a popular enemy in video games. Easy to vilify with no need for character development, they’ve blown apart many times over. Wolfenstein 3-D has a lot of history, as recently discussed in an article looking back at first-person shooters. It was a visceral video game
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I played The Sims when it first game out on the computer, simply because of my utter and blind devotion to Maxis. Thinking everything that they touched turned to gold, I snatched it up quickly. Yeah, it was okay, but not the gold that I expected. I'm still
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Buried beneath the numerous layers of desperation and decay, Metro: Last Light is a story about hope. Two long, dreary decades have passed since Moscow was destroyed beneath a volley of nuclear missiles. In that moment, for all anyone in the Metro knows, most of humanity was annihilated along with
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It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. By that account, Binary Domain is a doting love-letter to a number of film and videogame influences. Make no mistake, you’ve seen this sort of game before. It’s a squad-based shooter, its environments dotted with places to
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The Tony Hawk series has been slowly declining for a while now. It's not that the games are of poor quality, but there's a big problem with games delivering an experience significantly less revolutionary than they are advertised to be. For example, Underground promised free-roaming environments
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Portable systems are suitable for many game types and genres, the best of which have been designed with the features of their host platform in mind. Historically, cover based shooters would not have fallen under that umbrella, given the lack of a viable control scheme. The PlayStation Vita, with its
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One minute Jim was a simple earthworm, doing the things that simple earthworms do. He spent his days digging, eating dirt, staying moist, and most importantly not getting caught on a concrete surface during a hot summer day; Jim was merely minding his own business, just trying to get by
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There is no cliche in gaming more widely used than the ‘kidnapped girlfriend’. It’s one of the most archaic plot devices used in videogames, something the platforming genre has mostly grown out of. So it’s no surprise that Zack Zero uses this trope unabashedly to set up its
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I’d just been on holiday with a group of friends. I’d seen plenty of sights, including abandoned houses, old churches and rural villages. Here, I’d witnessed a black market of tobacco growing; where it was dried. later rolled and sold wholesale. Three euros for twenty 100% pure
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It’s hard to believe that Max Payne has really been gone since 2003. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne didn’t set the world on fire by any means, but the series garnered enough of a cult following thanks to its flashy mechanics and endearing style to
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Twenty years ago, videogames would be judged solely on one thing: how fun they were to play. Yet “fun” has in recent times become a dubious compliment, a word that suggests archaic thrills in the place of refinement and sophistication. Other art-forms hold a similar aversion to the word and