Picking Up Steam: Bastion (PC)
When a story says that the world fell to pieces, they don’t normally mean it as literally as Bastion. After
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
2011
Picking Up Steam: Rock of Ages (PC)
In Greek myth, Sisyphus is a man who constantly defied death. Whether it was kidnapping the god of death that
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Picking Up Steam: Orcs Must Die! (PC)
In the tower defense game Orcs Must Die!, portals to the human world are under threat by hundreds upon hundreds
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 2012 Edition (Xbox 360)
Adapting the trivia game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? into a Kinect game feels like it should have
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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: 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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Dynasty Warriors 7 (PS3)
Records of the Three Kingdoms is a historical text chronicling the conflict between three kingdoms that arose during the decline
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Disney Universe (PS3)
You would think that most games try to provide a quality game experience as their main draw, but the cooperative
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Burnout Crash! (Xbox 360)
The Burnout series of racing games revels in the vehicular destruction that unfolds thanks to high speed collisions, to the
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Leedmees (Xbox 360)
The Kinect motion sensing camera promises that your body is now the controller, but it often doesn’t feel like the
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Spider-Man: Edge of Time (PS3)
With how much Spider-Man’s web swinging through cities is emphasized in many 3D Spider-Man games, it will likely sound a
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Crimson Alliance (Xbox 360)
Crimson Alliance takes an interesting approach to pricing. The game’s first level is provided for free, and in this hack
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X-Men: Destiny (Xbox 360)
The X-Men series features plenty of stories focused on the uneasy relationship between humankind and mutants. On one hand, there
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Rayman Origins (Wii)
With a name like Rayman Origins, you’d expect this video game to be a prequel exploring how Rayman became the
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Pokémon Rumble Blast (3DS)
In the dungeon crawler genre, players fight through labyrinths filled with monsters and scavenge loot off their bodies that they’ll
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Mahjong Cub3d (3DS)
With the Nintendo 3DS’s glasses-free 3D features came a push to see what game formats could benefit from additional depth.
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Okamiden (DS)
Okamiden is essentially Okami in miniature. This action-adventure game built from Japanese myth with a dose of comedy over top
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WWE All Stars (PS3)
While a dream match between your favorite wrestlers will always be an appealing concept, the reality of them often faces
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Mighty Milky Way (DSi)
At first blush, Mighty Milky Way looks like it’s cut from the same cloth as WayForward’s other “Mighty” games on
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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords – Anniversary Edition (DSi)
Back in 2002 a Game Boy Advance remake of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was released
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