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Learning to love the early end of the power curve. Most games are a journey in empowerment. One of the great joys of this hobby is hitting that point at the end of the game where you are all-powerful. Mowing through enemies, gliding past obstacles; what was once challenging is
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Pentiment, Pokémon and a browser game are in my top ten from the last year. I won’t lie: when I started thinking about this list a month ago, my first thought was, “oh no, all I’ve played this year is Yakuza.” As you’ll see in the list
I grew up in a particularly odd moment in tech history: everyone had a computer, but nobody really knew why. This was that window of time after the release of the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, when computers became accessible to average people, but before the internet, which provides so many
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I enjoy putting this list together every year because I love reflecting on the new games that made an impact on me. But I’ve found it increasingly hard to think about a game purely in terms of the year it was released, because I’m spending more time playing
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Screenshots of work-in-progress games let us imagine visions of things we’ll never play. Kamek is coming to Mario Kart Tour. If this news doesn’t move you, well, I get it: here’s a minor Mario character coming to a spinoff mobile game that already has 125 playable characters.