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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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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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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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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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