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Red Dead Redemption 2: The Most Beautiful Tragedy
Red Dead Redemption 2 is possibly the greatest video game of all time and certainly my absolute favourite. Red Dead Redemption was my absolute favourite for a long time, boasting gorgeous graphics, wide, open-world gameplay, and a super compelling narrative, yet Red Dead 2 exceeds the … Continue reading
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Tagged Old West, outlaws, Pinkertons, redemption, revisionist, revolver, Western
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Console Consolations
Ever been to your friend’s house and they’ve bought a new video game? They hype it up, put in the disc/cartridge and you two anxiously watch the spinning wheel of the loading screen. Then, before you can read the strategy … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptations, final fantasy, silent hill, video games
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Last Link of the Day: Overly Enthusiastic Sports Fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YF5NTHkkHs And the crowd goes wild!
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Find them. Bring them to mommy.
I wish I could say I was more excited for this Friday the 13th game. It should be a surefire win, given the state of games today. Take the actually good stuff from Evolve (and I know there wasn’t much), … Continue reading
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You cover your face, but I know who you are…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNFtACeifcU E3 is in full swing, but I honestly haven’t been blown away yet by anything. Well, except for this freaking awesome trailer for Dishonored 2, which promises to bring back all the gunpowder-punk, plague-bearing, rooftop-jumping, backstabbing, stealth-kill awesomesauce from … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Danny Trejo in a Sega CD Game
If you grew up in the early 1990s, remember how mind-blowing it was when video games started first featuring live-action cutscenes featuring real actors? Well, behold all these cutscenes in their original pixelated glory from a 1993 Sega CD game called … Continue reading
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You’re about to enter the Animus.
We’ve been here before, people. Hollywood just keeps trying to make movies based on video games into a lucrative thing, but honestly, there’s just no point. After literally decades of attempts, it seems pretty clear to me that removing a … Continue reading
Horton’s Reality Escaping Electric Brick
I’d show you this honest commercial for video games and video game consoles, but it’s not ready yet. And even if it was, it wouldn’t actually represent the real honest commercial for video games and video game consoles.
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Honest: Gods Among Us
I’ve kinda been over fighting games for a while now, but I did have a passing interest in Injustice: Gods Among Us when it first came out. Not enough to look into it, mind you, but enough that I noticed. … Continue reading
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If it sounds good, it will look better
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst is probably one of my most anticipated games of 2016, and it’s not only because I really enjoyed the first game in the series, but also because I’m just really damn curious. How do you update something … Continue reading
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