The Haunted Hoard: Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures (Switch)
During last year’s Haunted Hoard I took a look at Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard and was impressed that it
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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The Haunted Hoard: Ghosthunter (PS2)
Ghosthunter’s trip to American shores is a bit of a bumpy one. Originally developed by Sony Computer Entertainment’s Cambridge studio,
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The Haunted Hoard: The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (PS5)
Many horror stories like to keep their human characters vulnerable to better raise the stakes of the situation. A villain
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The Haunted Hoard: Little Nightmares (PC)
I attempted to play Little Nightmares for the 2020 iteration of The Haunted Hoard, but my computer at the time
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The Haunted Hoard: Satan’s Hollow (Arcade)
If you were looking to make an interesting vertical shooter in the 1980s, having interesting enemies was a good way
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The Haunted Hoard: The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem (PS4)
The Addams Family lives in a house of horrors and they like it that way. It also means that beyond
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The Haunted Hoard: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (Xbox One)
The tower defense genre doesn’t have many titles that penetrate the popular consciousness, but with its silly concept and easy
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The Haunted Hoard: The Medium (PS5)
A spirit medium serves as a bridge between two worlds, but what would experiencing two separate worlds really feel like?
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50 Years of Video Games: Quality Time: Elden Ring (Xbox Series X)
For some years it can be difficult to identify which games might go on to become important and successful. Some
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50 Years of Video Games: Deathloop (PS5)
2021 was a bit of a rocky year for the game industry, the new game consoles of the time having
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50 Years of Video Games: Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)
2020 would see the release of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and after games like Control seemed to
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50 Years of Video Games: Control (Xbox One)
By 2019 gaming hardware was allowing for nearly photorealistic graphics and game worlds could be manipulated in creative ways with
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50 Years of Video Games: God of War (PS4)
By 2018 the shifting priorities of Sony that kicked off with The Last of Us’s success were starting to settle
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50 Years of Video Games: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)
For almost as long as Nintendo supported the Wii U, the promise of a new game in their renowned Legend
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50 Years of Video Games: Overwatch (PS4)
While there is a lot of variance within the first-person shooter, the weapon sets you find are often fairly standard.
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50 Years of Video Games: Splatoon (Wii U)
While it would be a bit dramatic to call Nintendo’s Wii U console an absolute failure, it certainly underperformed and
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50 Years of Video Games: Watch_Dogs (PC)
Despite being set around the same time the game was released, the 2014 game Watch_Dogs depicts a world of interconnected
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50 Years of Video Games: The Last of Us (PS3)
No matter how good your game’s story may be, getting certain players to pay attention to it can be almost
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50 Years of Video Games: Far Cry 3 (PS3)
“Like Skyrim with guns” goes the now rather famous quote from Adam Kovic of Machinima when describing Far Cry 3,
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50 Years of Video Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS3)
Open world game designs had captivated the broader gaming audience since Grand Theft Auto III showed its potential in the
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50 Years of Video Games: Red Dead Redemption (PS3)
After the phenomenal success of Grand Theft Auto III, Rockstar Games devoted most of its attention to fleshing out and
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