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Pendragon: Arthurian Chess, Once the King is Dead

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Pendragon is one of the most interesting tactical games to come along in quite some time. It’s also, perhaps, exceptional evidence that for some people -- certainly this one at least -- “interesting” might not quite coincide with “fun.” The...
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Hades: Game of the Year, Two Years Running

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It is my pleasure to inform you that Hades is, once again, for the second year running, my Game of the Year. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. That’s just how it is. That’s a lie, of course. I do...
Gaming

Necromunda: Underwhelming Chore

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Sometimes the license just doesn’t land. Necromunda: Underhive Wars, developed by Rogue Factor and published by Focus Home Interactive, is a third-person turn-based tactics game in the vein of your XCOM revivals or, well, just about any game that’s a...
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Control: Experience the Ultimate Powers-Based Shooter, One Creepypasta at a Time

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In 2004, Midway Games -- at this point a shell of the titan that had brought Mortal Kombat to American arcades, only five years away from declaring bankruptcy -- released a title called Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. It was...
Retrospectives

Alpha Protocol: The Mass Effect-Like Series That Might Have Been

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Alpha Protocol was the greatest FPS RPG franchise that never was. Even today it remains a pretty divisive game for those who remember it; at the time, the Obsidian Entertainment-developed, SEGA-published title was released in 2010 on PC/PS3/Xbox 360 to...
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint: You Could Bend It Instead, or Just Leave It Be Entirely

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There are a lot of good ways to do open-world games, even ones that are games as a service (GaaS). And then there are a lot of bad ones. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint didn’t get a review in this...
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Carrion, or, How a Secret Government Facility Earns a Michelin Star

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What’s the most you’ve ever eaten in one sitting? Carrion is a game of consumption and corruption, the story of what happens when man digs too greedily and too deep, finding only-- alright, fine. It’s a game where you play...
Gaming

Ghost of Tsushima Is a Fantasy Game, But a Good One

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I did not think I’d be back here reviewing an open-world fantasy game again so soon after The Witcher 3. That’s what Ghost of Tsushima is, of course, and it’s important to get it out of the way early: despite...
Retrospectives

The Fall of the Tomb Raider? A Tomb Raider Reboot Retrospective

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Did you remember a Tomb Raider game came out in late 2018? Shadow of the Tomb Raider was the third and almost certainly final game in the Crystal Dynamics/Eidos Montreal reboot of the classic action-adventure franchise, and the game seemed...
Retrospectives

Bioshock Infinite Revisited: A Triple-A Studio “Game as Art,” Seven Years Later

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Author's note: Given the scope of the piece and what it specifically examines, this article was written solely about the base Bioshock: Infinite game, without playing or considering the Burial at Sea story expansions as they were not part...
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