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UFO 50: Ninpek’s epic quest for a sandwich
You know sometimes how after a hard day’s ninjing you really want a sandwich? And when you sit down to enjoy it, and you’re anticipating that first amazing bite… a giant octopus comes along and steals...
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UFO 50: Paint the town blue with Paint Chase
So far in UFO 50 we’ve seen two very different takes on the platformer, including a classic microcomputer-style “arcade adventure” and an auto-scrolling arcade game, plus a surprisingly deep but...
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Victory Heat Rally: the return of the Super Scaler
I love a classic “Super Scaler” game, so when Victory Heat Rally by Skydevilpalm, published by Playtonic Friends, claimed to offer a “turbocharged neo Super Scaler arcade racing experience”, I was...
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.hack//INFECTION and the beginning of a phenomenon
I’ve always been fascinated by the .hack games, one of the first truly ambitious transmedia projects that involved video games, and yet I’ve never gotten around to finishing the original series. I...
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Silent Hill 2: A respectful remake
Silent Hill 2 on PlayStation 2 is one of my favourite games of all time. It’s an absolute masterpiece of games as art, and a game that I have returned to numerous times over the years. But it’s quite...
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Death Mark: ghost stories, J-style
I enjoy a good horror game, but over the years it will surely not surprise you to learn that I’ve developed a particular taste for the distinctively Japanese take on the genre. That means while memey...
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NG: Holding grudges is No Good
One of the things I’ve come to really like about Experience as I play more of their games is how they can take the same basic concept and provide a completely different riff on it, rather than just...
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A new taxonomy of RPGs
I’ve been doing some thinking about things that don’t really matter — a welcome distraction from the unpleasant things that do matter in the world today — and one of the things that has come up in my...
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Death Mark II: an exceptional conclusion to a brilliant series
< Previous The Spirit Hunter series from Experience is an absolutely fantastic trilogy of games that anyone interested in Japanese-style horror — specifically ghost stories — should immediately...
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The Colonel’s Bequest: a bold experiment with the interactive mystery format
Roberta Williams is regarded as the First Lady of adventure games with very good reason: her King’s Quest series was instrumental in bringing the genre out of the purely text-based realm, and her...
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