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How To Recreate The Best Cut Stages In Super Smash Bros. Wii U
The latest installment in the Smash Bros. series is a fantastic game, as I mentioned in my review, but longtime fans may notice a few things missing. Specifically, several stages that have been around...
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NBA 2K15 Frustrations: MyCareer Won’t Let Me Craft The Player I Want
NBA 2K's MyCareer mode is my favorite destination. I revel in creating my own player and weaving his story as an up-and-comer; slowly making a name for himself and eventually rising to prominence. The...
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Top Of The Table – Tokaido
Just in time for the holidays, we’ve got a look at a perfect board game to get you through the cold months ahead. From acclaimed board game designer, Antoine Bauza, Tokaido is a fascinating strategic...
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Requiem For A Seam: Remembering The 10 Best Game Instruction Manuals
Let me spin you a yarn. Times were, you’d open that brand-new cardboard (or plastic) box and there, nestled right next to your cartridge (or disc), would be a booklet. Yes, a booklet – paper pages...
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The Game Informer Fight For The Top 50 Challenge 2014
Every year, as the last of the holiday game reviews start to wrap up, we turn our eyes toward the year-end Top 50 list. We take selection of these games seriously, with some lengthy and often heated...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed is an annualized series, but that doesn't mean that Assassin's Creed Unity itself should be taken for granted. In some ways the game represents a return to form of the franchise's...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Skylanders: Trap Team
Whittling down all of the year’s releases down to 50 is a difficult – some might say futile – task. The point of today’s challenges are to give editors a reason to spend time with a game that they...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 - Wolfenstein: The New Order
It is rare that I gush about a game, and even rarer that I continue to do so eight months after I’ve finished it. I’d be lying if I told you I always had faith that Wolfenstein: The New Order would be...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Fantasia: Music Evolved
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Kinect failed to find the audience it was looking for. Despite two iterations, neither developers nor players ever seemed to completely connect with the motion-based...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 - Thief
Looking over the list of releases from 2014, I don't see a clear frontrunner for the hallowed Game of the Year honor, and a good majority of the year's highly hyped games received polarizing reviews...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 - Civilization: Beyond Earth
Thanks to Steam, 4X games are experiencing a sort of renaissance. Since it’s easy to spend a ridiculous amount of time on strategy titles, picking and playing the right one can be a daunting task....
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 - Alien: Isolation
For last year's Fight for the Top 50 games of the year challenge, I championed a game all about a survivor trying to overcome an alien menace in the far reaches of space. Now I'm back again this year...
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Fight For The Top 50 - LittleBigPlanet 3
Picking a game to champion for our Top 50 Challenge was easy; I knew it had to be Sumo Digital's charming platformer LittleBigPlanet 3.As a long time fan of the LittleBigPlanet series, I was worried...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Kirby: Triple Deluxe
My relationship with Kirby has always been that of casual acquaintance (outside of Super Smash Bros., since he was my main on Nintendo 64). I didn’t play any of the Dream Land games growing up, and...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Assassin's Creed Rogue
Having not played Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, there was a lot for me to love in this game. The seafaring battles and navigation can be very cinematic and immersive. The intertwining story elements...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Monument Valley
When we put together our list of the top 50 games of the year, we don't distinguish between retail, downloadable, and mobile titles. A great game is a great game, regardless of its platform. The result...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is straight-up demented, but that’s what makes it so damn intriguing. This visual novel adventure game keeps the tension rolling as you and a group of students are...
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Fight For The Top 50 2014 – Earth Defense Force 2025
I love the way that developers have been exploring more sophisticated themes in games in recent years, but not everything can be heavy and poignant all of the time. Yes, sometimes I want to play...
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Top 50 Challenge 2014 - Assassin's Creed Unity
I always look forward to playing a new Assassin's Creed game each year. When the Animus is roaring at the peak of its capabilities, traveling back to a pivotal point in human history is likely one of...
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Top 50 Challenge 2014 – Skylanders: Trap Team
I’ve seen too many bad games foisted off on young gamers, shoved aside with the phrase “It’s not good, but kids might like it.” Kids don’t deserve bad games any more than you do, and Skylanders: Trap...
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