Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered (PC)
The Asterix series of French comics has received an impressively high amount of video game adaptations, although many of them
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Featured Game
Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube)
While Mario is often the platform game trendsetter, establishing how a platforming character should control in both 2D and 3D
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii)
While it’s easy to identify similarities between games in the Crystal Chronicles subseries of Final Fantasy games, the wide breadth
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Gears of War: Judgment (Xbox 360)
After Gears of War 3 rather definitively wrapped up the war against the mutated humanoid monsters known as the Locust,
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Yono and the Celestial Elephants (PC)
When I started playing the puzzle adventure Yono and the Celestial Elephants, I expected, quite reasonably I feel, that the
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated (Xbox One)
Licensed games are often doomed to be locked to whatever consoles they are released for. Rarely will they get new
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Bomberman (NES)
While I had a pretty low opinion of the Bomberman series before starting The Game Hoard, again and again I’ve
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Wordtris (SNES)
When Tetris took the world by storm with its simple but addictive puzzle game design, designers were quick to try
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Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360)
The incredible Gears of War 2 is a tough act to follow, but when it came time to wrap up
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Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King (Switch)
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King is an example of a game being saved by being at the right place at
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Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda (Switch)
Crypt of the NecroDancer took rogue-like mechanics, dungeon-crawling, and rhythm based gameplay and rolled them all into one experience where
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Sniper Elite (PS2)
In many shooting games, the sniper rifle emerges as one of the most satisfying weapons to use. The immediate satisfaction
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Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)
The first Gears of War won plenty of awards, sold like mad, and helped kick off the cover shooter craze
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Tacoma (Xbox One)
With their game Gone Home, Fullbright helped propel narrative exploration into the mainstream, and while it also lead to that
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The Red Strings Club (PC)
There seems to be a rather small but still impressively populated niche genre of indie games where the focus is
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Virtua Quest (PS2)
When presented with the concept of an action-adventure game based on the Virtua Fighter series, your first instinct might be
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Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (PSP)
With its simple character designs, silly voice performances, lighthearted tone, and rather basic plot, it’s easy to see that Gurumin:
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Gato Roboto (Xbox One)
While the exploration focused platformers that make up the Metroidvania genre are often defined by their large interconnected maps full
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Mendel Palace (NES)
It’s always interesting to see where a major developer got their start, and considering Game Freak would go on to
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Minecraft: Story Mode – The Complete Adventure (Wii U)
Despite being the best selling video game of all time, Minecraft doesn’t have much of a plot. For a world
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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One)
When the original Gears of War hit the Xbox 360, it ushered in a new era of shooting games. Winning
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