retrospective
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Perfect Dark: 20 Years Later
6Twenty years on from release I must acknowledge that, for a classic multiplayer game, Perfect Dark now suffers from a fairly major fault. It’s nigh-on unplayable. Those sleek offices and twisting tunnels have morphed into poorly textured geometric mazes. The explosions and effects, brilliant in memory, are muted. Most of all, the always-suspect framerate is…
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons, 6 Months Later
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was a bright spot during the early onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Six months on, has it retained its charm?
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The State Of Overwatch In 2019
Overwatch is a game with gravity. Assembled from the scraps of the never-released MMORPG Titan by one of the most trusted game companies of all time, the first-person team shooter was always too big too fail. And since its release three years ago, its publisher Blizzard has continued feeding it, nourishing and fluffing its feathers,…
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What Made Super Mario 3D World So Great
We all know Super Mario 3D World is super rad. Just how rad is it? YouTuber Mark Brown took a look at the modern classic for his semi-regular “Game Maker’s toolkit” video series, and makes a case for putting 3D World in the time-honoured “totally hella rad” category. That might not be the name of…