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Gaming has always had a tricky time with labels. Take the ways critics have Frankensteined together various genre…
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In the year 199X—or 1993, if you want to get all nit-picky about it—Capcom’s celebrated Mega Man series was becoming…
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Let’s be honest: Fallout: New Vegas is the Fallout snob’s Fallout game. Created by Obsidian Entertainment—one of two…
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One of the Yakuza series’ greatest strengths is its obsession with a single small chunk of Tokyo. There have been…
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As pop culture’s booming nostalgia-industrial complex goes to show, the comfort and delight we find in the familiar i…
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Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)—Camp Belica
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The Thing is nauseating. Seeing it for the first time in a sticky-floored screening room a couple of years back, I…
8/04/16 12:00AM
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This article discusses specific plot details from Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: Season Two.
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Rob Schrab’s Scud: The Disposable Assassin is a comic book so thoroughly of its time that it feels like the physical…
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Metroid speaks in a variety of languages. Its predatory environment murmurs about its hidden dangers through violent…
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Bishop was a few measly pounds of black-and-white squalling desperation when I found her. She was stuck in the…
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Final Fantasy IV (1991)—Sealed Cave
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Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine (2013)—Identity
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Alex: It’s a strange feeling, playing these Crucible sessions in front of Ryan today. For the past month, he’s been…
9/16/15 12:00AM
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It’s Super Mario Bros. Week on Gameological! In honor of the series’ 30th anniversary, we’re paying tribute the best…
9/10/15 12:00AM
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Alex: I’ve played multiplayer Destiny every night this week and have died so many times it’s starting to blur into a…
9/03/15 12:00AM
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Ryan: I am not a clutch player when it comes to sports. I still remember that night, over a decade ago, when I lost…
8/27/15 12:00AM
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Alex: It’s nearly time for our second Shooter Tutor session to begin, and I’m looking forward to showing Ryan my…
8/20/15 12:00AM
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Alex: I’ve set up the Xbox One here in a conference room at A.V. Club HQ, so that Ryan and I will have a large…
7/15/15 9:00AM
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Paranoia is a perfidious foe. The truth is, it sticks because it’s rooted in our terrible knowledge that danger…