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DmC: Devil May Cry Has Survived the Backlash & Aged Better Than Many of Its Contemporaries
Man, remember 2013? It feels like a lifetime ago. In many ways, the world as we knew it was bonkers, but nowhere near ...
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BloodRayne Plays by Its Own Rules and Invites You to Bask in the Blood
BloodRayne isn’t a series I thought I’d be writing about as a recent release. The cult franchise has developed a fandom over the ...
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Left Alive Is the Game The Last of Us Part II Wanted to Be
Yes, I’m serious. Quite serious, actually. Granted, Left Alive was hard as nails at launch and benefited greatly from its post-launch patches. But ...
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Black Ops III Delivers a Sci-Fi Conspiracy Thriller as Memorable as Its Gameplay
“This is your last chance! Show me what you’re made of! Fight it! Fight it!” That parting line from Treyarch’s Call of Duty: ...
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Gears 5 Is an Epic Journey Only AAA Games Can Achieve
Gears of War isn’t a franchise known for subtlety. While the first entry’s reveal trailer promised a bleak yet poetic world, the majority ...
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The Last of Us Part II Is a Self-Criticism of Naughty Dog
To call The Last of Us Part II polarizing is an understatement. But in truth, it’s only amazingly average, especially considering Naughty Dog’s ...
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Heavenly Sword Asks If You’re Prepared to Conquer Fear Itself
“Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die,” as the saying goes. For as much as we suffer, toiling away ...
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Apsulov: End of Gods Lets You Become a Cyberpunk Viking Exorcist
Apsulov: End of Gods simply shouldn’t work as well as it does. It’s a first-person horror game not unlike last week’s Observer, yet ...
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Doubt Reality Itself in Bloober Team’s Observer
What’s worse than dread? What could possibly be more heinous than paranoia dripping down your spine? Doubt. You see, where dread makes you ...
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Is a Horror Remake Done Right
Dread is a hard emotion to capture, especially in an interactive space. It’s not simply being scared, but being fully aware of the ...
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BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den Is What Future BioShocks Should Aspire To
One year ago, my inaugural Second Look piece on 2K Marin’s The Bureau: XCOM Declassified went up. I’d just moved over to The ...
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Puppeteer Is PlayStation’s Creativity at Its Best
I’m in a weird place with Sony. I’m kinda, sorta not hugely in love with its first-party output on PlayStation 4. There are ...