Category: Video Games
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Team Fortress 2: The Immortal Game
First-person shooters are the among the most disposable and short-lived games I’ve ever seen. Nowadays, when a new FPS comes out, it’s a miracle if it works, let alone survives over a year or two. Call of Duty, Battlefield, Titanfall, even Overwatch and modern Halo; the shelf life of these games have never been shorter.…
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Can Street Fighter 6 Save the Series?
The past few years of Street Fighter can best be described with one word: disappointment. Street Fighter 5 never fully recovered from its disastrous launch; even after so many updates, it never won back the casual audience. In its mediocrity, Street Fighter more or less faded while other fighting games, like Tekken and Guilty Gear,…
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King Dice: Cuphead’s Ten-in-One Gauntlet (Best Boss Battles)
Cuphead has some of the greatest boss battles in video game history. Choosing one to cover on Best Boss Battles was a challenge in it of itself. Who to start with? Hilda Berg? Cagney Carnation? Grim Matchstick? Cala Maria? The Phantom Express? The Devil? Then I remembered him. The boss battle that gave me more…
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Fighting Games Should Be Free-to-Play
I know those three words are unpopular, but hear me out. Fighting games are a more niche genre of video games. Not just because the barrier to entry is intimidating for new players; no one wants to get their asses kicked before they know what they’re actually doing. A large part of it has to…
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Revisiting God of War (2018): A Modern Masterpiece
God of War: Ragnarök is just a few short months away. May as well get the hype engine started ahead of time. The 2018 reboot of God of War was my favorite game that came out that year. But that was four years ago, and I was still fairly fresh off of my first playthrough.…
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