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The Game After A Brief History of Fallout 4's Post-Apocalyptic Retrofuture Published Dec 15, 2015From the moment Albert Einstein's theories were turned into bombs, a nuclear holocaust seemed inevitable; atomic anxiety was almost immediat...
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Brick By Brick How Gaming Brought Lego Into A New Dimension Published Nov 24, 2015Lego, the toy brickmaking concern begun in a Danish workshop back in 1949, was on the brink of bankruptcy just a little over a decade ago....
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The Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide 2015 Videogames Published Nov 05, 2015It's almost time to start picking out presents and stuffing stockings again. But don't worry — Exclaim! is here to make this year's festive...
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12 Playable Reasons To Get An Xbox One Published Oct 26, 2015So you've held out this long without upgrading to a next-gen console but, well, the holidays are coming up and maybe, just maybe, Santa (or...
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Full Metal Gear Jacket Published Oct 25, 2015There are many war games. There are few games about war. But the Metal Gear series, helmed by auteur developer Hideo Kojima for three decade...
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Don't Shoot Can Gaming Figure Out How to Interact Without Combat? Published Sep 09, 2015Games are combat. Be it football, Uno or chess, the goal is to defeat your opponent in a battle of brains and/or brawn. But despite the nome...
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iGame Therefore I Am Published Jun 22, 2015When Apple's iPhone and iPad first arrived on the scene, followed not long after by Google's Android devices, gaming looked like it was fina...
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50 Shades of Play Bloodborne Is One of the Hardest Games Ever. How Fun Is That? Published May 21, 2015I'm dead. Again. Actually, make that many frustrating agains. Even the beginning of Bloodborne, the latest exercise in interactive sadomasoc...
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Strange Days The Evolutionary Needs Of Now-Gen Gaming Published Apr 13, 2015I'm playing an 18-year-old girl named Maxine Caulfield — Catcher in the Rye reference intended — having a vivid nightmare in pho...
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Manic Pixel Dream Girls: On The Importance of Playable Female Characters Published Feb 06, 2015It's 2015 and we're finally living in a post-GamerGate world, so let's address an issue the reactionary online protest raised. (Ha ha no, no...
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Can the Game-Maker Genre Spark A Revolution? Published Nov 17, 2014When punk emerged, it was a rejection of corporate rock for a do-it-yourself philosophy that eventually led to the '90s alt-revolution and t...