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10 Big Franchises That Went Mobile
Certain games are practically guaranteed to be fun when they come out on conventional consoles, but dominating that realm isn’t always enough. Some publishers want to make a major splash in the mobile...
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BioWare's Manveer Heir On Diversity And The Fight For Inclusivity In Games
[photo by Riccardo Cellere, all rights reserved]At the most recent Game Developers Conference, BioWare Montreal’s Manveer Heir delivered an impassioned keynote about inclusivity and the lack of...
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Exploring Freedom In Games For The 4th Of July
Today is the Fourth of July in America. This day commemorates the independence of our country, but we're abstracting the meaning of the holiday to reflect on what freedom means to us in video games.The...
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Exploring Freedom In World Of Warcraft
From Kalimdor to the Eastern Kingdoms, no game has made me feel as liberated as the expansive World of Warcraft....(read more)
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Exploring Freedom In Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Growing up during the Nintendo Entertainment System era, my first taste of role-playing games came courtesy of Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, the second of which new Nintendo Power subscribers...
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Top 25 Wii Games
Nintendo has ended its seven-year relationship with the Wii, and moved on to its new life with the Wii U, and we've taken this moment to reflect on the console’s best games. With more than 100 million...
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Exploring Freedom In Red Dead Redemption
As part of of our day-long examination of the concept of freedom in video games, I wrote this essay about Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption:Perhaps no game is more closely tied to the mythology of...
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Exploring Freedom In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
As we continue our journey exploring freedom in games, I want to look back at a game that had a significant impact on my free time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The Elder Scrolls is a series that...
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Exploring Freedom In Red Faction: Guerrilla
Plenty of open-world games have given me the ability to run wild, from the fantasy and post-apocalyptic lands of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, to Grand Theft Auto's bustling cities....
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Exploring Freedom In EverQuest
My entry to the world of MMORPGs wasn’t explicitly in EverQuest, as I’d played plenty of MUDs and other such games in the heyday of the BBS style RPG, but it was certainly the first where I felt this...
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Exploring Freedom In Metal Gear
Freedom is precious, and that applies to our video games as well. For our July 4th features on freedom, I chose Metal Gear on the NES, a game that took me beyond what I expected from games at the time...
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Exploring Freedom In Pilotwings
Today, we're taking a look at games that made us feel free. For my pick, I'm going back to the Super Nintendo era. Pilotwings wasn’t the first flight simulator I’d played. It wasn’t even the first...
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Exploring Freedom In Assassin’s Creed
In honor of the 4th of July, we’re examining another angle on the concept of freedom– the video games that gave us a sense of freedom through story, gameplay, and controls. For me, few games have...
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Exploring Freedom In Mass Effect
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly seven years since the the first Mass Effect game was released on Xbox 360 (remember it was a Microsoft-published exclusive). The multitude of choices and...
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Exploring Freedom In Spider-Man 2
Today we’re taking a look at games that offer a sense of freedom. The first open-world game I played was Grand Theft Auto III. As impressed as I was by my ability to go anywhere, it had the same...
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Exploring Freedom In Harvest Moon
Most people think chores are the pits. In the Harvest Moon series, they comprise the majority of the gameplay. While that may seem like busywork to some players, I couldn’t get enough the first time I...
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Exploring Freedom In The Sims
All today, we’ve been exploring games that make us feel free. When this idea was presented to me, The Sims instantly came to my mind for the creative freedom it offers. Whether I’m building a new...
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Replay – King's Field
Today, Japanese developer From Software is famous for starting a masochistic craze with the "Souls" series of games. But before Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne there was King's Field. This...
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The Many Characters We Hope To Play As In Hyrule Warriors
The creators behind Hyrule Warriors are calling the upcoming Dynasty Warriors Zelda mash-up a celebration of the Zelda series, saying you will be able to play as your favorite characters. The Zelda...
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Seen At Play Nintendo Tour 2014
Nintendo recently announced a mobile tour of its video games and themed photo-ops traveling across the United States over the course of three months. The tour stopped by the Mall of America in...
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