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[folder_nav][folder_nav] Loading screens. Satan’s immersion-breaking intermissions. Long enough to break the flow of gameplay, short enough that you can’t just fire up the ...

If people judged the gaming community by the mask it wears online, they could rightly call it hateful, unstable and xenophobic. It’s also ...

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As I catalog the games I’ve played over the summer months, it occurs to me that perhaps these dry gaming seasons aren’t the ...

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Go is often cited as a touchstone for profoundly deep gameplay that emerges from a shockingly simple set of basic game mechanics. You ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] In Assassin’s Creed you play as the world’s most helpless and docile assassin. Captured by an evil corporation and subjected to experimental ...

As a child devouring all the science fiction she could get her magic-marker stained hands on, I dreamed of someday making the journey ...