Picking Up Steam: Long Live the Queen (PC)
The life of a princess can seem like a glamorous fantasy, an upper-class lifestyle with all the riches and respect
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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Picking Up Steam: SteamWorld Dig (PC)
Even in a world full of steam-powered robots, someone’s got to do the digging for metal they’re made of, although
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Picking Up Steam: Who’s That Flying?! (PC)
Back when my Steam account was young and the promise of affordable games was hard to resist I was always
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Picking Up Steam: Atom Zombie Smasher (PC)
In 2011, I finally downloaded the PC gaming platform Steam primarily because I had heard Team Fortress 2 was going
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Month of Mario: Quality Time: Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch)
When the Super Mario Bros. games first hit the scene, they were trailblazers. Each new game was guaranteed to get
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Month of Mario: Mario & Luigi: Brothership (Switch)
Friends. Family. Even enemies. A person’s identity can be built up by these words that define not who you are
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Month of Mario: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – Arcade Edition (Arcade)
While I have previously covered its home console equivalent on the Switch, to say Mario & Sonic at the Olympic
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Month of Mario: Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch)
The original Super Mario Maker on Wii U was a great democratization of making levels in the Super Mario mold,
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Month of Mario: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Switch)
The Mario franchise doesn’t cross over with other game series often, mostly just being one participating member of the broader
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Month of Mario: Mario Sports Superstars (3DS)
While Mario Sports Superstars isn’t Nintendo’s first attempt at creating a package of sports games starring Mario and friends, it
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Month of Mario: Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
While the glasses-free stereoscopic 3D of the Nintendo 3DS was an impressive piece of tech, many players wondered if it
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Month of Mario: Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
After completing the phenomenal 3D platformer Super Mario Galaxy, the development team at Nintendo EAD Tokyo found themselves with a
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Month of Mario: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
This may sound a little odd, but I do not believe Nintendo was trying to make an excellent game when
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Month of Mario: Mario’s Game Gallery (PC)
Mario’s Game Gallery, rereleased under the name Mario’s FUNdamentals in 1998, is primarily a collection of card, board, and dice
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Month of Mario: Mario Super Sluggers (Wii)
When I first played Mario Super Sluggers around 15 years ago, I stayed up all night to play this baseball
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Month of Mario: Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (DS)
A touch screen basketball game sounds like a risky gamble. It’s not too hard to imagine the controls being too
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Month of Mario: Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (DS)
In the original Mario vs. Donkey Kong, the big gorilla is driven mad by his desire to own the wind-up
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Month of Mario: Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Switch)
When Mario and Donkey Kong first faced off in their debut 1981 arcade game, it left a cultural footprint that
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Month of Mario: Mario Kart DS (DS)
When people look back at old Mario Kart titles, they often focus on the tracks, the racers, and the items,
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Month of Mario: Super Mario Strikers (GameCube)
With most Mario sports titles, you can expect the sport featured to be accessible, colorful, and supplemented with a few
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Month of Mario: Mario Pinball Land (GBA)
Kirby, Samus, Sonic, Pac-Man… when these video games heroes got their pinball spin-offs, all they had to do was curl
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