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Exploding Barrels

Exploding Barrels

Exploding Barrels

Pretty Boys Who Look Like Girls

Vaan from Final Fantasy XII Boys who could pass as girls out to save the world from evil are so common in games ...
By Hilary Goldstein Legacy AuthorJuly 12, 2012
Exploding Barrels

Crate Smashing

Just about every game world faces a great crisis requiring the intervention of a stalwart hero to put evil in its place. These ...
By Hilary Goldstein Legacy AuthorJune 1, 2012
Exploding Barrels

Fetch Quests

The skies are black and an ominous shadow lingers over the once peaceful land of wherever the hell your hero lives. The Dark ...
By Hilary Goldstein Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2012
Exploding Barrels

Exploding Barrels

Big red barrels are perhaps the most common trope in all of video games. You could see it as a crutch for developers, ...
By Hilary Goldstein Legacy AuthorMay 15, 2012
Exploding Barrels

The Princess Problem

It’s one of the oldest stories: A beautiful young woman of noble blood is abducted, incapacitated, or otherwise inconvenienced by some form of ...
By Alfie Simpson Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011
Exploding Barrels

Pills Here!

No matter how brutal and nightmare-flecked the setting, no matter how many waves of unholy creatures assail the planet and no matter how ...
By Peter Parrish Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011
Exploding Barrels

The Hands’ Job

Spanning 5 long days and 3 conference halls the size of jumbo jet hangars, the Game Developers Conference is an astounding display of ...
By Chris Plante Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011
Exploding Barrels

Green Barrels Don’t Explode

Long ago, videogame developers unwittingly made a monster. Ripping it from the confines of reality, they educated this monster in a world designed ...
By Tim Latshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011
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