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Is Deus Ex Still The Best Game Ever? Part Five: Living, Playing, Ending
My chronicle of returning to Deus Ex fifteen years later, to see if I’m right when I tell anyone who comes near that it’s the best game ever, is nearing its end. You can read the whole saga here. In...
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Is Deus Ex Still The Best Game Ever? The Conclusion
This took rather longer than we thought. But after five entries, and two weeks, I’ve come to my conclusions. You can read the whole saga here, if you’ve not yet caught up, as I chronicle my experience...
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Imperial: Revisiting X-Wing And TIE Fighter
To commemorate the digital release of classic Lucasarts games X-Wing and TIE Fighter [Steam or GOG for the best versions here and here], we commissioned Rob Zacny to take a trip down memory lane and...
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The Ambitious Failure Of Cybervamp RPG BloodNet
I’m known for writing about old games that are worth playing today. This is something of a departure, as I can’t really recommend Bloodnet [Wikipedia page] with a clear conscience. It isn’t a good...
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One vs. One In Sniper Elite Is Still As Tense As Games Get
The everlasting threat of a single bullet, the terrifying glint of a sniper scope in your eyes, and the darkness that covers your enemy make Sniper Elite V2 [official site] one of the most gripping...
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Doing Comics Justice: Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich
Superheroes are, my dear mole cave people recently thawed following a decades-long slumber, very much in vogue right now. Films about whiny teenagers with the least interesting powers of an arachnid...
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Deus Ex Is 15: Memories Of Ion Storm’s Classic FPS
Deus Ex is 15 years old, which means it’s almost old enough to move out of our house and stop having to do what we say. For now though, John, Alec, Adam and Alice decided to celebrate the relentless...
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18 Years Later, Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?
Later this year, Ultima Online [official site] will turn 18 years old. In the genre of MMOs, that makes the game positively ancient – and it’s even more remarkable when you consider that it’s still...
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Remembering City Of Heroes
Sometimes you can wait too long, think it’s okay to put off saying that important thing to the game you love, and then they’re gone. Then time goes on, and it becomes less and less relevant to say....
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Why Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri Is Looking Glass’s Forgotten Classic
Released in 1996, tactical mech simulator Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri [GOG page] was one of Looking Glass’s most interesting games – and one of their biggest commercial failures. We asked Rob...
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Race Around The Clock: Remembering Street Rod
I didn’t have a car when I was a teenager but I did have a Commodore 64, and it was as temperamental, arcane, and hard to get working as anyone’s first used car would be. A hand-me-down from my...
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CD Projekt Red On The Making Of The Witcher 1: “We thought we could...
The Witcher 3 [official site] brings to a close one of the strangest trilogies in games. Unlike a series like Mass Effect, where the first game’s design laid a foundation for each subsequent...
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The RPG Scrollbars: A Visit To Old Albion
Albion really should be better known. It’s one of the more obscure beloved 90s RPGs, rarely brought up in conversation like the Ultimas or the Gold Box games or for the true aficionados, games like...
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Kohan Is The Game Most Worth Saving From 2001
Every game released before 2005 is being destroyed. We only have time to rescue one game from each year. Not those you’ve played to death, or the classics that the industry has already learned from....
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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed Is The Game Most Worth Saving From 2000
Every game released before 2005 is being destroyed. We only have time to rescue one game from each year. Not those you’ve played to death, or the classics that the industry has already learned from....
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Meet The Community Still Playing Action Quake 2
In 1998, mod team Akimbo Team Productions released Action Quake 2, a Quake II multiplayer mod created in their spare time. The landscape of first-person shooters has changed vastly since then, but one...
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Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis Is The Game Most Worth Saving From 1992
Every game released before 2005 is being destroyed. We only have time to rescue one game from each year. Not those you’ve played to death, or the classics that the industry has already learned from....
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How A Mod Team Helped Age Of Empires 2 Thrive
Scant few games stand the test of time and retain a large active player base sixteen years after release. But not only has Age of Empires II endured, it has thrived. It’s gained new steam thanks in...
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How Players Revived Star Wars Galaxies And EverQuest
I am standing in a place that shouldn’t exist. It shouldn’t exist because back in 2011 it was decided that this place and the countless others connected to it were no longer financially viable enough...
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1942: The Pacific Air War Is The Game Most Worth Saving From 1994
Every game released before 2005 is being destroyed. We only have time to rescue one game from each year. Not those you’ve played to death, or the classics that the industry has already learned from....
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