Need for Speed Rivals (Xbox One)
The thrill of street racing doesn’t just come from the breakneck speed and danger. That excitement is elevated even further
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Xbox 360)
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts has a rather conflicted relationship with the series legacy it inherits. At times it is utterly
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Eastward (Xbox One)
Eastward is a wonderful assembly of talent and ideas in strong need of an editor. There’s a clear knack for
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High on Life (Xbox Series X)
After the rough experiences I had with Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality and Accounting+, I approached High on Life with
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Lapin (Xbox One)
Lapin is a touching tale of a band of five rabbits seeking a safe new home, and with its lovely
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Yakuza 4 Remastered (Xbox One)
Prior to Yakuza 4, the Yakuza series has primarily been the story of the morally upstanding but emotionally stoic Kazuma
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MicroBot (Xbox 360)
MicroBot is the name of a twin-stick shooter game for Xbox 360 and PS3, but it is also the name
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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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Diabolical Pitch (Xbox 360)
When designing for a novel piece of hardware like the Kinect motion sensor, it’s easy for developers to get wrapped
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Arkadian Warriors (Xbox 360)
When you enter the first dungeon for your first quest in the action role-playing game Arkadian Warriors, it doesn’t feel
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The Legend of Tianding (Xbox Series X)
Tianding is a folk hero from a very specific stretch of time for Taiwan, the island falling under Japanese rule
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Beacon Pines (Xbox Series X)
In many Choose Your Own Adventure books, if a choice sends you down the wrong path, it’s usually to a
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Metal: Hellsinger (Xbox Series X)
In an energetic movement-heavy shooter like 2016’s Doom, you can occasionally find yourself entering something of a flow state. The
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The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (Xbox 360)
Game designer James Silva spent a while working as a dishwasher and dreaming of the game he wanted to make,
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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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South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge (Xbox 360)
In one of South Park’s most memorable episodes, the grade schooler Eric Cartman ends up shifting from an irritating and
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Boogie Bunnies (Xbox 360)
Boogie Bunnies is a match-three puzzler, and the problem with being part of such a crowded genre is it can
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South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! (Xbox 360)
When the South Park cartoon first started airing, it became infamous for its embrace of unapologetic offensive humor and it
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DC League of Super-Pets: The Adventures of Krypto and Ace (Xbox Series X)
The super-pets found in early DC Comics have always delighted me, the fact that a dog with Superman’s powers or
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Tinykin (Xbox Series X)
I love to see game designers approach a relatively underrepresented game style, and taking the minion management of Pikmin to
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