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Bargain Bin: Castlevania Edition
My first experience with Castlevania was the N64 game, which, endowed with some monstrous controls and lousy 3D camera angles, sadly turned me away from…
Spoony Bard 10: How Games Tend to End
Spoony Bard is a biweekly column by James Bishop that looks at narrative within video games, celebrating the stories that make games special, but also…
Games Industry’s Achievement List for 2010
Whether you’re after PlayStation trophies or Xbox achievements, we’re constantly getting set targets by our games. There is something nice about the comforting pat-on-back from…
Challenging Conventions 6: The Likeable, Mass-Murdering Hero
Challenging Conventions is a biweekly column by Jeffrey Matulef that discusses the conventions of games design, whether regards the games that subscribe to these conventions…
Six Elements of Gaming’s Future: A 2020 Vision
Recent weeks have seen a constant barrage of ’Best of Decade’ lists from all corners of the media. From best albums to worst internet memes…
The 9 Most Exciting Games of 2010 that aren’t Sequels
2010 might well be another Year of the Sequel contender, with major titles like Final Fantasy XIII, StarCraft II, Mass Effect 2 and God of…