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Video Games With The Most Memorable Pre-Rendered Backgrounds
Pre-rendered graphics weren’t only used in complex cinematic cutscenes back in the day when a game’s own 3D engine couldn’t do the job. Developers also used them as in-game backgrounds to bypass graphical limitations. And some of the games had really well-made, atmospheric pre-rendered backgrounds. Squaresoft and Capcom preferred these a lot in their PS1…
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The Final Fantasy Fansite That Changed Thousands Of People’s Lives
At 29, Sean Robinson has been teaching high school in Southern California for almost six years. He teaches 10th grade history. He tries, at least a little, to be the cool teacher. His short hair’s spiked up in the front, a Fallout 3 lunchbox sits on his desk, and he conducts class in a casual,…
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The Most Deserted, Abandoned Places In Video Games
You don’t necessarily need noisy, crowded cities to make a section of a game exciting. Uninhabited wastelands, post-apocalyptic worlds, a sea of sand dunes, vast grasslands… These can all be strikingly beautiful places, and capable of telling enticing stories. We’ve gathered some choice games below to show how well abandoned places can set the general…
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Show Us What You Love and Hate About Cloud Strife’s Character Design
Character design is a thankless job — So many tiny, invisible decisions go into creating game characters we spend the rest of our lives with. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun with it. Using our brand spanking new image annotation system, show us what you love, hate or find hilarious about…
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Final Fantasy V Comes to iOS Tomorrow, and It Looks… Like This.
I’m not quite sure how I feel about the look of Final Fantasy V on iOS. I mean, original character designer Kazuko Shibuya returned to polish up her original designs and make everything all pretty for the game’s mobile debut, so in a way this is true to her vision. On the other hand, it…
By Mike Fahey
