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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

DIRECT DOWNLOAD Join the HG101 gang as they crowbar their way toward that Nobel Prize for Physics. Patreon bonus for

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

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 88: Metal Slug Advance, Painkiller

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The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 3

The third and final volume of The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers is complete! It’s 423 pages and features

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