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The twin-stick shooter made its debut 40 years ago with Midway’s release of Boot Hill, but it was five years later when the genre took off thanks to Williams’ Robotron: …
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Butcher takes its inspiration from seminal genre-defining first-person shooter Doom and may be the only game that wasn’t a first-person shooter to make that claim. Instead, Butcher looks at everything Doom …
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A few weeks ago, some of the XBLA Era staff of XBLA Fans took to Skype to debate the merits of the Backwards Compatible XBLA Games. We wanted a pound …
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If there’s one ingredient that’s guaranteed to make any game better, it’s ragdoll physics. From putting rockets on people in Just Cause 3 to prat falling in GTA V, if …
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Anyone that knows me can tell you that I am not a fan of stealth games. I am more of a run in and shoot kind of person, with no …
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Since the first video game I played in the ’80s, one thing has always come naturally – beating people up to win. Nothing super complicated, keep moving to the right …
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In an opening that’s perhaps a little too on the nose, Little Nightmares introduces the protagonist as she wakes up from, well, a little nightmare. Though never uttered in the game her …
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The residents of ‘Mitchellville’ are on the whole a happy bunch. Sure education is at an all-time low, but the furniture industry is booming since apparently, kids are picking up …
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In this era of the remaster, many games we see really aren’t that old, so it’s good to see that Lizardcube and DotEmu have gone a bit further back in …
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Flinthook is a lot of things. The main character is both a ghost and a pirate, plundering ships in search for treasures. Oh, and this whole scenario plays out in space. Artistically it goes …
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