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Top 50 Challenge – Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
I love to play platformers, but it's fair to say many series have shifted from their old-school base. Even as a Ratchet and Clank fan, I've seen a series that once was only about adventuring tap into...
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Top 50 Challenge – Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch
As a fan of both JRPGs like the Final Fantasy series and Studio Ghibli’s work, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch seemed like a no brainer for me. Yet when the game came out earlier this year it...
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Top 50 Challenge – The Swapper
Environmental, story-driven puzzle games are very high on my favorite genres list. For me, games like Braid, Limbo, and Portal represent the apex of brilliant game design, offering experiences that are...
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Moments: Stepping Into The Outlands
Standing on the safe side of the dark portal, I prepare myself for the outlands. World of Warcraft’s first expansion, The Burning Crusade, offers flying mounts, player-versus-player arenas, and an...
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The Secret Behind Shadow Of Mordor's Rhythmic Combat
Few game studios have a dedicated composer working within their walls. Senior composer Nathan Grigg has worked alongside director of audio Brian Pamintuan at Monolith Productions for over a decade and...
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Top 50 Challenge – Shin Megami Tensei IV
An exceptional RPG strikes the perfect balance between story and mechanics. Players should be engaged by the characters and events, but also by the combat and the systems under the hood. Ideally, a...
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Top 50 Challenge – Device 6
For hundreds of years we've been reading printed words off paper pages and imagining the stories they tell. Device 6 preys on that convention, betraying your expectations, and delivering an engrossing...
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Top 50 Challenge – Metro: Last Light
Learn more about the Game Informer Fight For the Top 50 Challenge 2013I accepted Jeff Marchiafava's challenge to play Metro: Last Light, a game he decided to champion for our year-end Top 50 list. I...
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Top 50 Challenge – Dead Space 3
Ever since Dead Space 3 was released, Tim has been championing its merits to anyone who will listen to him. While he clearly loved the game, the reception around the rest of the office has been...
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Top 50 Challenge – Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
This is the world I was hoping to enter in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.Why did I pick an MMO? I know that Joe Juba was pleasantly surprised by his time with Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, so...
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Top 50 Challenge – Gunpoint
Upon learning that Gunpoint is a side-scrolling noir puzzle title, I was a little skeptical. I didn't want the noir to be too campy, and I hoped the puzzles would be interesting enough to hold my...
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Top 50 Challenge – Lego City Undercover
Even those of us who own a Wii U have to acknowledge that the system hasn’t exactly had a long list of exclusives. That’s why Lego City Undercover has always been one of the reasons I planned to...
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Top 50 Challenge - Payday 2
If in the first 20 minutes of the game you’ve failed to properly instruct me on how to achieve victory, I don’t think we’re going to have a great future. I know I’m late to the Payday 2 party, and...
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Top 50 Challenge – Battleblock Theater
As a longtime fan of platformers and someone who really enjoyed Castle Crashers, I was excited when I heard that The Behemoth was working on Battleblock Theater. For one reason or another, however, I...
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Top 50 Challenge – Papers, Please
One of the many things I'm thankful for is how much I've been able to travel. My wife and I made it a priority before we had children, and my job provides plenty of reasons to never fully unpack my...
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Replay – Jurassic Park
You: "Wait, didn't this game come out a couple of years ago?" Us: "It sure did! And thanks to the arrival of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, we can now dive into PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360's libraries for...
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Forza Motorsport 5 On & Off The Track
I never said I was the world's greatest driver, and now you have the video proof. Alternately, if you want to see a full race at Sebring and what it's like to blow a lead, then this video is for...
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Super Replay – Cyberia 2: Resurrection – Episode 5
I don't know how it happened, but here we are again. Cyberia is the worst game that I've ever beaten (watch our Super Replay to see for yourself), and somehow the Replay crew has cornered me into...
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The Best Open World Games
Part of the thrill of gaming is being able to step into imaginative worlds that let us make our own marks in them. In an instant, we can be transported to virtually anywhere, such as places in history...
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Question Of The Month Reader Responses: Issue #249
A few months ago, we asked readers if GTA V lived up to their expectations or not. With the exception of a few disillusioned gamers, most readers expressed happiness with their purchase, despite GTA...
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