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If failure is the quintessence of humility, then as I sat slumped over a fold-out chair in a bar beside a CRT…

Just because you don’t have access to the fanciest gear around doesn’t mean you have to play subpar games. Even if…

If Football—that is, the American National Football League football—used the same naming scheme as “Dungeons &…

The card game Android: Netrunner does not feel like a game. Jacked into its system, Android: Netrunner’s thorny…

Fantasy Strike takes recognizable moves from other fighting games but removes the difficulty of performing those…

“I wanted a game that hated me.” That was how Sean Plott, also known as “Day9” in the professional gaming world,…

Fire Emblem Fates is a soap opera strategy game. You’ll spend as much time agonizing over battlefield tactics as you…

It was a damn shame Rise of the Tomb Raider came out on the same day as Fallout 4, wasn’t it? Nevertheless, release…

Call of Duty is not supposed to be good, so the idea goes, especially not Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The sixth C…

Soccer is a twenty-two-player competitive ball game (CBG). Soccer has been in development for two thousand years.…