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Horizon Zero Dawn is as fresh now as it ever wasn’t
In 2017, a year hardly understocked with great games, one release embarked in a bold new direction. It depicted a world of dense forests,…
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The Marvel’s Avengers beta has me excited to break up the team
The first thing to know about Marvel’s Avengers is that it makes sense. Not in the traditional way, of course; its plot, for instance, is…
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Game Box Art Critique July: The Ghost of Tsushima, Destroy all Humans!, Paper Mario: The Origami King
Each month, we invite élite art critic Braithwaite Merriweather to appraise the box art of the latest game releases. In between his time spent…
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The Splinter Cell Problem
When you think of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, what do you think? You probably think of the goggles: that luminous trident of green orbs,…
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Mortal Shell is a fresh spin on the Dark Souls formula
Soulslike games are ten a penny these days. There’s so many that you can’t round a corner without having one shoved in your face.…
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Pokémon Sword & Shield’s The Isle of Armor: What we think
Pokémon Sword and Shield shook up the series with its auto-saves and diminished Dex, and now it’s gotten a DLC. Yes, a DLC for…
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Game Box Art Critique June: The Last of Us Part II, Valorant, Disintegration
Each month, we invite élite art critic Braithwaite Merriweather to appraise the box art of the latest game releases. In between his time spent…
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Resident Evil—Code: Veronica is still crazy after all these years
There is a curious pleasure in the jolt of a tonal clash. Consider the Alien prequel films, for example; in their obsession with tumbling…
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Unreal Engine 5 and the misleading power of graphics
In lieu of an actual summer—pleasantly fitted with barbeques and boozy evenings, with stretches of sun-brained indolence—The Game Awards, propelled by its host and…
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Beyond a Steel Sky offers high spirits in dystopian times
Beyond a Steel Sky is the sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky, an adventure game from the mid-1990s. It's rendered in the sort of…
