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Posted in Another Look Features

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…

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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…

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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…

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Posted in Challenging Conventions Features

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…

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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…

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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…

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