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Critical Success, Commercial Flop

Critical Success, Commercial Flop

Critical Success, Commercial Flop

Walk, Don’t Run

Critically acclaimed, award winning … commercial failure. It is the game you meant to play but didn’t until it became hard to find ...
By Nova Barlow Legacy AuthorMarch 4, 2008
Critical Success, Commercial Flop

Interview: Cryptic Allusion on Keeping the Dream(cast) Alive

The Dreamcast was the best and last console Sega ever made. Its short life of less than three years on the market (originally ...
By Howard Wen Legacy AuthorMarch 4, 2008
Critical Success, Commercial Flop

Fighting with Monsters

Your adoptive uncle is pinned on the clammy ground of a wet cave by a rare, snarling creature. The saliva of the vicious ...
By Brendan Caldwell Legacy AuthorMarch 4, 2008
Critical Success, Commercial Flop

X-Com: The Truth Is Out There

X-COM: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown, or often just “X-Com“) is regarded as one of the all-time classic videogames. IGN rated it ...
By Alan Au Legacy AuthorMarch 4, 2008
Critical Success, Commercial Flop

For the Love of the Game

A year before the launch of their second game, the founders of the small independent game developer Introversion ran out of money. Their ...
By Chris LaVigne Legacy AuthorMarch 4, 2008
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