Every so often, a game comes out that ends up defining something. Defines the year it came out. Defines its entire hardware generation. Defines an entire console. Or in the case of Final Fantasy Tactics, defines a genre. A title that will forever be used…
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The Dreamcast, Sega's final plea for world peace, was home to the greatest arcade ports of all time: Marvel vs Capcom 2, Ikaruga, Cosmic Smash, Soul Calibur, and many other games that remind me we're in hell and games will never be this good again.
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The year 2000. A pretty wild time for games, looking back. A year full of changes, with a new generation emerging, while the previous one was still going strong. The Playstation 2 had come out, while the original Playstation showed no signs of slowing down.
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Yeah, hey, I've been gone for a whole month again. I'll just tell you straight up: I had a fucking shit time in June, and I'm honestly still pretty mad about it midway through July. Other than attending Fyter Fest, last month sucked! I had…
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I've been struggling for a little while, trying to figure out the best way to open this piece. It finally hit me: there is a real lack of authenticity these days. Everything has to be buried under several layers of detached irony, punctuated by a…
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