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Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Spider-Man & Venom

For almost two decades following the advent of the NES, Japanese game companies generally dominated the arcade and console landscapes, while

Age of Empires III

When Ensemble Studios made the original Age of Empires in 1997, few seemed to expect that this Civilization-inspired work would

Primordial Pauline: How Did Mario’s First Girlfriend Get Her Name?

The story of how Mario got his name is fairly well known – in the original Japanese arcade release of Donkey

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In 2017, game designer Sophia Park made waves with Arc Symphony, a game about a fictitious fan community from the

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 89: Half-Life, Paradroid

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Hybrid Front, The

This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you

Ori and the Blind Forest

Ori and the Blind Forest, the first game developed by Moon Studios, an Austriac third-party developer of Microsoft, asks the

Spelunky

Procedural generation is an interesting design avenue. Enabling what can be considered a unique experience every time one plays a

Fez

Announced back in the summer of 2007, Fez became one of the more hotly anticipated games during the resurgence of

Garage: Bad Dream Adventure

This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you

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