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Happy 20th Anniversary To My Favourite Final Fantasy
In 2000, after a pair of PlayStation games that were more science fiction than swords and sorcery, I wanted a Final Fantasy that skewed heavily towards classic fantasy fare. Final Fantasy IX, released on July 7, 2000, in Japan, was exactly the game I was looking for.
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Minecraft Players Are Celebrating 10 Years With Cakes, Artwork And More
Minecraft turns 10 this weekend and fans of the popular-blocky-game are celebrating this big milestone in various ways, like baking cakes in real life or sharing old stories and screenshots.
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Ten Years Of Rock Band, That Game Everybody Used To Play
On 20 November 2007, Harmonix, EA and MTV Games released the first Rock Band in the US, a four-player, instrument-driven rhythm game that briefly changed the face of social multiplayer gaming. A year later, on 7 November 2008, it was released in Australia. Where are your plastic instruments now?
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Happy Birthday To The Original Xbox’s First Unofficial Mascot
Image via Games Asylum Azurik: Rise of Perathia came out within two weeks of the first Xbox’s US launch back in November of 2001 (Australia got the Xbox in March the next year). It was supposed to be Microsoft’s interpretation of Mario meets Zelda, showing off what the new system could do and creating a…