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How I Became Hooked On .hack

How I Became Hooked On .hack

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- Have you ever wondered what makes games like 'World of Warcraft', 'Guild Wars' or even 'Final Fantasy XI Online' so popular in the gaming world? I was never one to play MM...


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RPG Gems: Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter

RPG Gems: Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter

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- Throughout the 16 and 32-bit eras, Capcom's Breath of Fire series was always solid, if not particularly ambitious. That all changed with Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter -- ...


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Memory Lane: SSX Tricky

Memory Lane: SSX Tricky

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- There are a bunch of Snowboarding titles that have tried to make the 'boarding' experience as fun as the real thing, but not many of the succeeded. That was, until SSX cam...


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RPG Gems: Final Fantasy XII

RPG Gems: Final Fantasy XII

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- Final Fantasy XII does so much to reinvent the JRPG template that it hardly belongs in the same genre, much less part of the Final Fantasy series. Concepts like the "field...


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RPG Gems: The Peculiar Persona 3

RPG Gems: The Peculiar Persona 3

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- Potentially, Persona 3 could have been a train wreck. A spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series, it features randomly generated stages, with a huge focus on dungeon crawl...


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Gaming's Greatest Companies: Naughty Dog

Gaming's Greatest Companies: Naughty Dog

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- Although they haven't produced bucket loads of original IPs in their lifetime, Naughty Dog has still become a staple brand within the game industry. The IPs they've create...


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RPG Gems: Panzer Dragoon Saga

RPG Gems: Panzer Dragoon Saga

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- Modern gamers -- those brought up on fancy, high tech polygonal magic -- scoff at Final Fantasy VII's texture-less character models and low-res prerendered backgrounds, cl...


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10 Years Later: Revisiting Final Fantasy X

10 Years Later: Revisiting Final Fantasy X

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- Was Final Fantasy X the beginning of a new era for Square, or the last gasp of what some might term "the good old days?" That's the question that pops into my head whene...


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Order Of The Stone: Looking Back At Minecraft

Order Of The Stone: Looking Back At Minecraft

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- Back in May 2009, a small alpha version of a game that Markus Persson, known as "Notch" to most of his fans, was made available on the TIGSource.com forums. He had coded i...


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Remembering Parodius Non-Sense Fantasy For SNES

Remembering Parodius Non-Sense Fantasy For SNES

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- By the time of its 1992 European release, Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy was a side scrolling shooter when the genre was rapidly becoming irrelevant, with R-Type and Gradius ...


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Disney, Square And Nostalgia

Disney, Square And Nostalgia

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- Most everything in the gaming press about the Kingdom Hearts series is always prefaced with some quaint comment about the strange marriage of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy...


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Memory Lane: Streets of Rage 2

Memory Lane: Streets of Rage 2

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- The phrase "they just don't make things like they used to" is often banded around by older generations as they scoff at the quality of newer products. They sit there looki...


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Memory Lane: Broken Sword

Memory Lane: Broken Sword

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- Gaming has changed a lot in the last two decades. Stunning graphics and amazingly intensive feats are now the focus with the advancement of much more powerful consoles. Th...


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Video Games' Top Ten Manly Men

Video Games' Top Ten Manly Men

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- Right, so let's go straight for the jugular. This is Man Week. A week dedicated to the manliest video game characters we've ever known and whatever manly deeds they have p...


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The Ultimate Grand Theft Auto Vice City Cast

The Ultimate Grand Theft Auto Vice City Cast

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- We're here again with another "Ultimate 'Video Game Movie' Cast", a feature where we determine which actor we would choose to fit our favorite video game characters. Last ...


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Let's Play Again: Art Alive!

Let's Play Again: Art Alive!

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- It's not strictly a game, but Art Alive! was released on the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) during 1991 in North America and 1992 throughout Europe. Similar to Mario Paint in ...


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Let's Play Again: Ariel - The Little Mermaid

Let's Play Again: Ariel - The Little Mermaid

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- This time on Let's Play Again, we're looking at the game that accompanied a Disney classic - Ariel: The Little Mermaid. It's a shame the same can't be said for the game th...


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Mobile Gaming Will Never Defeat Console Gaming

Mobile Gaming Will Never Defeat Console Gaming

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- There's nothing better than opening up a newspaper these days to find some tech-analyst or financial adviser spouting out information regarding industry trends, as if play...