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Featured GameSwitch
February 20, 2021 2017, Nintendo

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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Featured GameSwitchZelda
February 18, 2021 2019, Nintendo

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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Featured GamePS2
February 16, 2021 2005, PlayStation

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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Featured GameGears of WarXbox 360
February 14, 2021 2008, Xbox

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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Featured GameXbox One
February 12, 2021 2017, Xbox

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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Featured GamePC
February 10, 2021 2018, PC

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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Featured GamePS2
February 8, 2021 2005, PlayStation

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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Featured GamePSP
February 6, 2021 2007, PlayStation

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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Featured GameXbox One
February 4, 2021 2020, Xbox

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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Featured GameNES
February 2, 2021 1990, Nintendo

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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Featured GameWii U
January 30, 2021 2016, Nintendo

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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Featured GameGears of WarXbox One
January 28, 2021 2015, Xbox

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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Featured GamePS4
January 26, 2021 2019, PlayStation

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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Featured GameGenesis/Mega Drive
January 24, 2021 1993, Sega

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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Featured GameXbox 360
January 22, 2021 2007, Xbox

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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ArcadeFeatured Game
January 20, 2021 1982, Other Systems

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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BombermanFeatured GameGenesis/Mega Drive
January 18, 2021 1994, Sega

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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Featured GameSwitch
January 16, 2021 2018, Nintendo

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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Featured GameSaturn
January 14, 2021 1995, Sega

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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Cooking MamaFeatured GameSwitch
January 12, 2021 2020, Nintendo

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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Featured GamePS3
January 10, 2021 2012, PlayStation

Blades of Time (PS3)

In my coverage of Nightshade, I mentioned how hack and slash games often get around their straightforward and repetitive combat

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