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CultureOdds and EndsIt’s 10 Years Since You First Didn’t Plan To Buy A Wii U
Cast your minds back, nostalgia fans, to those halcyon early summer days of June 2011. It was E3, back when people met together in buildings and when people still cared about E3, that Nintendo revealed the follow-up to their astonishingly popular Wii console. Yes, as Reggie Fils-Aimé took the stage, that was the very first…
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CultureIf You Want Indie Gaming News, You Just Have To Ask
Earlier today, I tweeted explaining that for some mad reason Kotaku had left me alone at the wheel of their website today, and asked my followers for breaking AAA news to fill in the awkward holiday Monday-driven game-world silence. It turns out they don’t know what triple-A means, but what they heck, here’s the breaking…
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CultureMany Need For Speed Games Are About To Be Erased From Reality
Publishers, like entropy, will eventually destroy everything. Rather than preserving their games like the works of art they should think they are, instead the instinct is more usually to go to enormous lengths to make them impossible to play. The latest victims of these murderous antics are many of the Need For Speeds released between…
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OpinionWhy Did No One Tell Me About Uncharted 4‘s Climbing?
I am, after extensive research, willing to concede that I might not be the first person to bring the Uncharted series to your attention. However, it seems everyone else has failed me by not letting me know just how utterly wonderful the fourth game’s climbing is. The least I could have hoped for would be…
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CultureTotal War: Three Kingdoms Fans Review Bomb The Game After Final Update Announced
Total War: Three Kingdoms, as of the weekend, is an “Overwhelmingly Negative” game on Steam. An organized review bombing has seen fans react somewhat negatively to the news that the 2019 game will receive no further updates, least of all a promised “building out the North of the map.” Creative Assembly, which releases approximately forty-seven…
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