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PohnDip

2d ago

The Darkness (Xbox 360)

Starbreeze Studios took a comic book property about a mafia hitman possessed by an ancient evil and turned it into a first-person shooter that stands apart from the crowd on the Xbox 360. The Darkness arrived in June 2007 with a clear identity: blend the crime drama of a gangster story with the…

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PohnDip

5d ago

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS)

When Intelligent Systems set out to remake the 1990 Famicom original that started the entire Fire Emblem franchise, the expectations were enormous. Shadow Dragon arrived on the Nintendo DS in early 2009 as the first handheld Fire Emblem since the beloved GBA trilogy, and it carried the weight of…

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BigMoneyBirdDog👑

Oct 18

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Review – The Series Finally Comes Back Swinging

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Review – The Series Finally Comes Back Swinging Twenty-one years is a long time to leave a franchise sitting on the shelf. Konami hasn't exactly been known for treating its legacy IPs with respect, so when they handed the keys to Castlevania over to Evil Empire and…

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BigMoneyBirdDog👑

Oct 15

Hood Warfare 2

Hood Warfare 2 is what happens when somebody watches the Chicago evening news and says, "You know what? This would make a great video game." And they were right. Trapstar Games dropped a $6 FPS on Steam where the Bloods and Crips shoot it out over Chicago turf, and the internet is having a full…

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PohnDip

Oct 12

Dragon Quest IX (DS)

When Square Enix announced in 2006 that the next mainline Dragon Quest would be a Nintendo DS exclusive, the gaming world raised an eyebrow. Moving from the PlayStation 2, where Dragon Quest VIII had delivered one of the most visually stunning JRPGs of its generation, to a handheld with a fraction…

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BigMoneyBirdDog👑

Oct 5

Control Resonant: Remedy's Best-Looking Game and Its Most Divisive

Control Resonant: Remedy's Best-Looking Game and Its Most Divisive Remedy has been walking a tightrope for years now, and Control Resonant feels like the moment they either stick the landing or eat concrete. The original Control was one of the most refreshing third-person action games of its…

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BigMoneyBirdDog👑

Oct 1

Marvel's Wolverine: Yearning for a Better Game

Claws Out, Balls Missing Marvel's Wolverine is the best Wolverine game ever made. That bar was underground, and Insomniac barely cleared it. This game is fun for about six hours. The combat is bloody, the claws feel good, and there's a primal satisfaction to ripping through rooms full of Trask…

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PohnDip

Sep 21

Pokémon Diamond Version (Nintendo DS)

Game Freak had something to prove with Pokémon Diamond. The franchise's first mainline entry on the Nintendo DS needed to justify the hardware jump — dual screens, touch input, Wi-Fi capabilities — while following up the Game Boy Advance era of Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Diamond (alongside its…

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PohnDip

Sep 16

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (Xbox 360)

When Snowblind Studios, the team behind the beloved Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, announced they were building a mature, M-rated action RPG set in Middle-earth, expectations were cautiously optimistic. By 2011, the Lord of the Rings gaming landscape was littered with mediocre tie-ins and missed…

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PohnDip

Sep 12

South Park: The Stick of Truth (Xbox 360)

When South Park: The Stick of Truth finally launched in March 2014, it was nothing short of a miracle. Originally announced under THQ's banner, the game survived the publisher's bankruptcy, switched hands to Ubisoft, and endured multiple delays, all while Trey Parker and Matt Stone maintained a…

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PohnDip

4d ago

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Xbox 360)

Red Dead Redemption didn't need a zombie mode. By October 2010, Rockstar's open-world Western had already cemented itself as one of the defining games on the Xbox 360. John Marston's story was complete, the frontier felt alive, and the critical reception spoke for itself. So when Rockstar announced…

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PohnDip

6d ago

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Xbox 360)

Dracula's castle has risen again, and only his own son can stop what's inside. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night dropped on the PlayStation in 1997 and fundamentally changed what a 2D action game could be. Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo fused the franchise's gothic platforming roots with deep…

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PohnDip

Oct 17

The Evil Within (Xbox 360)

When Shinji Mikami announced his return to survival horror in 2014, expectations were enormous. The creator of Resident Evil had stepped away from the genre he helped define, and The Evil Within was pitched as his comeback: a brutal, resource-scarce third-person horror game built on id Tech 5 and…

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nbunn63

Oct 12

Gears of War: E-Day

The Boys Are Almost Back Gears of War: E-Day is a prequel set 14 years before the original Gears of War. You play as young Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago on Emergence Day, the moment the Locust Horde first rips through the surface of Sera and turns everything upside down. The Coalition built…

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PohnDip

Oct 10

Dead Space (Xbox 360)

When Dead Space launched in October 2008, EA Redwood Shores had something to prove. Electronic Arts wasn't exactly known for original survival horror IP, and the third-person shooter space was already crowded with heavy hitters like Gears of War and Resident Evil 4's lingering influence. Dead Space…

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BigMoneyBirdDog👑

Oct 2

Postal 4: No Regerts (2022) - The "Worst Game of the Year" That I Still Love

POSTAL 4: No Regerts got dragged through the mud by every major outlet on the planet. IGN hit it with a 2/10. GameSpot gave it a 1/10. Metacritic ranked it dead last out of 824 games rated in 2022. The complaints were always the same: technical crashes, unoptimized performance, repetitive mission…

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nbunn63

Sep 27

SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance Is the Franchise Revival That Actually Earns It

Franchise revivals are a minefield, and most of them blow up in your face. You get a beloved IP dusted off, handed to a studio that clearly doesn't understand why people loved it in the first place, and what comes out the other end is a polished, soulless product that exists purely to extract…

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nbunn63

Sep 18

Marvel's Wolverine Is a Terrible Game That Should Have Been a Great One

Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine launched today, and it's a perfect case study in everything that's wrong with modern big-budget game development. The critical score is the studio's lowest in years, sitting at a 77 on Metacritic, while the official PlayStation Store page is flooded with suspiciously…

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nbunn63

Sep 13

Donkey Kong Bananza Review

Donkey Kong Bananza — The Switch 2's First Must-Own Game Let me cut straight to it: Donkey Kong Bananza is the real deal. This was one of the games people were most hyped about heading into the Switch 2 launch, and it didn't just meet the hype — it blew past it. Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 8…

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PohnDip

Sep 7

Gears of War (Xbox 360)

When Epic Games released Gears of War for the Xbox 360 in November 2006, it wasn't just launching another title; it was defining the second year of high-definition console gaming. Arriving at a critical juncture for Microsoft, the campaign thrust players into the rugged boots of Marcus Fenix, a…

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