Cooking Mama: Cookstar (Switch)
On the surface, Cooking Mama: Cookstar seems like it’s just the latest installment in the colorful and accessible cooking sim
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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Pebble Beach Golf Links (Saturn)
While many sports games will use the name of a recognizable athlete or sports personality to draw attention to their
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MUSYNX (Switch)
When it comes to rhythm games, there’s a pretty common template where the player needs to accurately perform the right
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Mega Bomberman (Genesis/Mega Drive)
In discussions of which Bomberman game is best, Bomberman ’94 tends to place rather highly, the Japanese only game never
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Bubbles (Arcade)
After Pac-Man proved that an unconventional game idea like a yellow ball traveling through a maze eating ghosts could be
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TimeShift (Xbox 360)
Many years back, I got my nephew TimeShift for Christmas, believing the mix of first-person shooting and time manipulating mechanics
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Goofy’s Hysterical History Tour (Genesis/Mega Drive)
While Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse have appeared as the stars of many platforming games, the absence of the third
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Spirit of the North (PS4)
It was practically inevitable that I’d compare Spirit of the North with The First Tree. Both are indie games I
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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