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      Goldeneye N64 Retrospective 

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      17-11-2015 12:43 PM
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      Describing the greatness of Goldeneye isn't the easiest task in the world. If you were to show it to a gamer who has recently been showered with PC First Person Shooters ...
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      SNES Week: Day 6 

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      01-12-2014 06:28 PM
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      SNES WEEK: Day 6

      1) Chrono Trigger
      2) Donkey Kong Country
      3) Yoshi's Island

      1) Chrono Trigger - Rob Bowker (hankwangford)
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      SNES Week: Day 5 

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      28-11-2014 03:02 PM
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      SNES WEEK: Day 5

      1) Contra 3: Alien Wars
      2) Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium
      3) F-Zero

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      SNES Week: Day 4 

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      24-11-2014 09:06 AM
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      SNES WEEK: Day 4

      1) Super Aleste
      2) Ganbare Goemon - Yuki-Hime Kyushutsu Emaki!
      3) Soul Blazer

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      SNES Week: Day 3 

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      22-11-2014 06:43 PM
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      SNES WEEK: Day 3

      1) Raccoon Rascal
      2) Super Castlevania 4
      3) Umihare Kawasi

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      SNES Week: Day 2 

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      20-11-2014 10:02 AM
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      SNES WEEK: Day 2

      1) Pop'n Twinbee
      2) Clock Tower: Love, Peas and Piece of Child
      3) Area 88 (AKA UN Squadron)

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      SNES Week: Day 1 

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      19-11-2014 11:49 AM
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      SNES WEEK: Day 1

      1) A brief history of the Nintendo Super Famicom/SNES
      2) Arcana (AKA The Card Master)
      3) Super Mario Kart

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      Tokyo Game Show 2013 Retrospective 

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      16-09-2014 04:10 PM
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      Of all the quotes about the Tokyo Game Show, all the controversial statements (Keiji Inafune's comments about the Japanese games industry being finished), or the silly event ...
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      Scope Creep - the complexity of reviewing 

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      07-01-2014 10:07 AM
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      In the early period of my gaming experience, if someone asked me what a game was like, the answer was simple. “It’s great. The controls are good, there is lots to do, it ...
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      Masters of Doom Book Review 

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      17-12-2013 09:59 PM
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      Masters of Doom screenshot.

      Masters of Doom by David Kushner is a thorough and detailed account of Id Software's history from their early days writing titles for the periodical Softdisk, through their ...
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      The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers - Kickstart this 

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      01-06-2013 07:19 PM
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      Video games are nearly 40 years old, depending on where you start the count. For such a young industry, it has seen an incredible amount of diversity and creativity. There ...
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      Code of Princess 3DS gets EU eShop release March 28th 2013 

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      23-03-2013 08:43 AM
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      Code of Princess is a side scrolling beat 'm up in the vein of Guardian Heroes. It's being released on the EU eShop on March 28th 2013. It was originally released with much ...
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      The Other Side to Video Game Patents 

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      16-02-2013 02:50 PM
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      Some genres are more reliant on unique gameplay hooks than art and audio assets for their appeal. In such cases patents can provide a useful form of protection for the titles' creators.

      With Sega's recent lawsuit against Level 5 involving patent infringement there's been some debate amongst the gaming community regarding the validity of Intellectual Property(IP) ...
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      Commodore Amiga Retrospective 

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      11-02-2013 07:33 PM
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      It wasn't always the case that the Japanese had the games market sewn up, you know. With Microsoft's XBox currently fighting a grim war of attrition for second place against ...
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      Game of the Year 2012 Staff Picks - Duncan 

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      20-01-2013 02:00 PM
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      Game of the Year 2012

      This year at Borders Down we've decided to cover each writer's favourite games of 2012 in their own articles, rather than trying to sandwhich them into a single hodge ...
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      Halo - the revolution that came and went 

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      11-12-2012 10:19 PM  Number of Views: 5664 
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      A not so long time ago, the height of game complexity was moving a paddle two ways on a single axis to block a bouncing ball. It was an impressive event. Since then games ...
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      Xbox 360 Advert Page (Dashboard) Rant 

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      07-11-2012 09:13 AM
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      In Q4 2012, Microsoft rolled out a new Dashboard for the Xbox 360. The first thing to notice after signing in (once it eventually loads) is that the Dashboard homepage is ...
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      Doujin Fighters 

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      05-11-2012 11:00 AM
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      Fight! Fight! Fight! The crowd’s synchronised chanting resounded in my ears. I clenched my fists as we squared off from opposite sides of the circle that had formed around ...
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      Immediacy of gaming - back to basics 

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      19-09-2012 11:28 AM
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      Here’s a suggestion for game developers and whoever stands over them with guiding hands, and to console manufacturers: Speed things up! There is so much useless fluff in ...
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      OUYA - a truly independent game console? 

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      13-07-2012 09:39 AM
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      In just under eight hours, the Kickstarter project known as OUYA managed to raise more than a million dollars. It is a new open source game console based on the Android operating ...
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