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In a fit of frustration over Hotline Miami and the way gamers discuss violent games, I ended up talking to game…
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It's been a peaceful few years, hasn't it? As the current generation of consoles got cheaper, more and more people…
Have you checked out that Vita game? You know—the one that's a shoddy spinoff of a big-name series?
Telltale's fantastic Walking Dead game was a surprise for several reasons. Not only did it reverse the studio's…
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Windows 8 has its problems. Some of these are immediate, others hypothetical (and potentially graver in nature). But…
My favorite videogames are the games I don't fully understand. They stay with me after I stop playing. They ask…
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What roleplaying games have that separates them from other types of games is their focus on story more than…