50 Years of Video Games: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360)
By the year 2009 most gamers knew not to trust games based on licensed properties. There were a few good
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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50 Years of Video Games: Braid (Xbox 360)
Independent game development has been part of the video game industry since its early days, but there were many barriers
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50 Years of Video Games: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3)
Prior to 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, there were plenty of successful first-person shooters that left their mark
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50 Years of Video Games: Wii Sports (Wii)
While the Nintendo DS and games like Nintendogs were a strong foothold for Nintendo’s new casual gamer focus, it was
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50 Years of Video Games: Nintendogs: Chihuahua & Friends (DS)
Nintendo had a powerful one-two punch in the mid-2000s that helped it go from lagging behind its competitors to producing
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50 Years of Video Games: Katamari Damacy (PS2)
After the reign of Atari came to an end, Japanese video game developers become the new king of the industry.
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50 Years of Video Games: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (GBA)
The Game Boy Advance is a bit of an unusual system. It sold remarkably well and the console itself is
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50 Years of Video Games: Quality Time: Metroid Prime (GameCube)
With the 1994 release of Super Metroid, the Metroid series finally not only refined the exploration-focused platformer into a cleaner
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50 Years of Video Games: Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
The Grand Theft Auto series is certainly one of the most influential game series of all time, and that mostly
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50 Years of Video Games: Hitman: Codename 47 (PC)
While the stealth genre has had titles throughout the history of gaming, it was the turn of the century when
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50 Years of Video Games: Soulcalibur (Dreamcast)
9/9/99 is a day remembered fondly by American Sega fans, as that was the day the ill-fated swan song of
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50 Years of Video Games: Half-Life (PC)
Valve may be the biggest name in PC gaming thanks to the Steam storefront and launcher making purchasing and playing
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50 Years of Video Games: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Final Fantasy VII was a game changer not just for the series, not just for role-playing games, but for what
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Mario 64 (N64)
With the Nintendo 64 being pushed back to 1996, it ended up being a little late to the party of
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50 Years of Video Games: Tekken (PS1)
1995 was a huge year for 3D gaming. The Sega Saturn released to markets outside of Japan, the Nintendo 64
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Metroid (SNES)
While the exploration-focused platformers known as Metroidvanias derive their genre name from two different series, there’s one game they’re all
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50 Years of Video Games: Doom (PC)
With some games, their impact on history is simple enough to summarize, but 1993’s Doom is something else. PC games
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50 Years of Video Games: Mortal Kombat (Arcade)
Violence has been part of video games from the very beginning, but back when you were blowing up black and
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50 Years of Video Games: Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis/Mega Drive)
It’s a tale told often in the retro video game world. The dominance of Nintendo with its plumber mascot dressed
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50 Years of Video Games: Bonk’s Adventure (TurboGrafx-16)
By 1990, Nintendo’s NES had not only revitalized the home gaming market in the United States, it had comfortably asserted
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50 Years of Video Games: Tetris (Game Boy)
Tetris wasn’t first released in 1989, but its release on the Game Boy that year might have ended up being
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