Looking back, it’s hard to believe that there was ever a time before Call of Duty. Omitting the gap year between the first two entries, Call of Duty (2003) and Call of Duty 2 (2005), there has been a full mainline game released in the franchise every year since, and …
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At the dawn of video gaming in the early Seventies, there was one name that dominated the scene: Atari. For years, the house that Pong built was synonymous with the arcade scene and home consoles, but like many of the biggest players from the old days not named Nintendo, the …
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It’s official, the worst kept secret in gaming this year has come true with Sony’s announcement of the PlayStation 5 Pro. In a pre-recorded presentation run live on PlayStation’s YouTube channel, PS5 lead architect Mark Cerny laid out the new futures of the upgraded version of Sony’s current generation console, …
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EA Sports Madden NFL Football has always been a landmark franchise. Even if you don’t play it every year you probably know someone who plays it religiously and could info-dump for hours about how the minute changes made to the annually updated game matter because they change 100 different details …
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PlayStation’s Concord launched on Aug. 23; as of today, it’s dead. Conceived eight years ago by former Bungie developers (Destiny, Halo) by then working at Firewalk Studios, Concord and its team were brought into Sony PlayStation’s first-party portfolio in April 2023. The goal was to help bolster the live-service strategy …
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There’s a lot of pressure associated with being the face of a brand. For Nintendo fans, new Super Mario releases are expected to be the crème de la crème of gaming; it’s the flagship franchise that sets the standard to meet for everyone else. For others like PlayStation? Well, that’s …
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Concord is officially dead. In an official statement released today on PlayStation’s blog, the company has announced that its recently released multiplayer shooter will be taken offline after just two weeks of service. The decision comes after a disastrous launch for the game, which launched August 23 on PlayStation 5 …
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Nowadays, Nintendo is known for its family friendly image with gaming icons like Pikachu and Mario. But that wasn’t always the case. There was a period of time in the Eighties where the Japanese developer was more amenable to adult-oriented content like Famicom Detective Club, a murder mystery adventure duology …
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Living in your siblings’ shadow is tough, and if Square Enix’s Visions of Mana were a person, it’d likely agree. Its bigger, more famous brethren like the Dragon Quest series keep iterating on traditional RPG designs from the Nineties, while Final Fantasy is always evolving and experimenting with what the …
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When Star Wars was first released in 1977, it introduced a galaxy’s worth of lore for audiences to sink into. Between the superpowered mysticism of the Jedi, the sexy roguishness of smuggling, and the unending strife of interstellar conflict, there’s something to capture the interest of just about anyone, built …
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