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Jarrod’s 2024 Top Ten Games of the Year and Other Meaningless Awards

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I’ve been writing these lists for a while now, and I always try to sum up how i’m feeling about the game industry at that particular moment in time. In 2023 I wrote about the industry writ large essentially being a dumpster fire, and basically all of the bad stuff from 2023 got exponentially worse. 2024 was actually the year where I looked at my wife and said “if our children come to us and say they want to make a career in videogaming, it is our duty as their parents to steer them away from that”.

PREVIEW Exoborne

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As I wait for the dropship to pick me up, I reflect on just how badly this run had gone.

It started — as all deployments do — with my character, a freshly-ressurrected cyberzombie clad in an armored exoskeleton, jumping out of a helicopter into a warzone..

Ludocene: A New Game Discovery Tool

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London 2025: New game discovery tool Kickstarter launches from the team behind Family Gaming Database, with 20 expert game curators on board including Simon Parkin, Christian Donlan, Rachel Watts, Brian Crecente, Josh Boykin and Mairi Nolan.

Why I’m Sick of Soulslikes

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Soulslike games were once my favorite genre to play, but I’m starting to get sick of them. Don’t get me wrong — FromSoftware revolutionized gameplay with Dark Souls back in 2011, and having the option to play something that pushes your ability to adapt and grow as a gamer is incredible. I just think we need a breath of fresh air.

This Is Not A Review – Unfair Rampage: Knightfall

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Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.The subject of this installment: the procedurally generated, action platformer Unfair Rampage: Knightfall, by indie developer Imphenzia. The game currently has a demo available on Steam, but no official release date yet.

INTERVIEW: SWERY65 On Death Game Hotel

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When poker moved largely online, the human element was stripped out of it. No longer were players able to read their opponent, analyzing their body language and tone of voice for cues to the strength of their hands. Suddenly poker, as much a game of psychology as it is of chance, had been reduced to a math problem. Any player armed with a calculator knew their odds of winning any given hand, and the only information they had to base their analysis of the opposition on was the length of time it took them to commit to a move.

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