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Lab Zero is best known for their fantastic crowdfunded fighting-game SkullGirls. Fantastic artwork, crazy combos and its wonderful cast of fighters has made it a very popular pick, especially in fighting tournament. Back in 2015, the team successfully fundraised a…
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Many consider the eighties a golden era for arcade games, with titles like Pac-Man and Outrun gobbling up pocket money like crazy. Series like these have received their fair share of reboots and remakes, too. It was in 1982 when…
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As great as the Nintendo Switch is, carrying it around as a handheld comes with some pretty obvious risks, the biggest one being: what if I drop it? Scary thought, indeed. Instead of having to send it off to Nintendo…
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Nintendo has always boasted about how great it is to play the Switch as a handheld device outside of the comfort of your home. You know what’s not that great, though? Dropping it on the floor, scratching its screen, or…
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What is it? EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair is a third-person shooter developed by SANDLOT and published by D3 PUBLISHER. Aliens are invading Tokyo once again, and it’s up to the EDF to fight back. There…
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What is it? Raptor: Call of the Shadows – 2015 Edition is a vertical scrolling-shooter originally developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee in 1994. It was re-released in 2015 by DotEmu with additional features. As a mercenary, you…
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If one was to describe Songbird Symphony, created by Joysteak Studios and published by PQube Limited, the first word to come to mind would be ‘adorable’. The game’s a mix between a simplistic sidescroller and a music rhythm game, featuring…
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Retro-inspired side-scrollers are plentiful, and may as well be over-saturating the market. Games like Shovel Knight & The Messenger are but two stand-out examples of top-notch titles that boasts both great gameplay, pixel-art visuals and chiptune sound design. Aggelos, developed…
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What is it? Frustrate-a-ball is a paddle-and-ball game by Addictive 247 Games. The objective is to keep juggling the ball for as long as possible without letting it drop off-screen for the highest possible score. Platform(s) PC, iOS Pros Cons…
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The history books never seem to talk about whether cavemen really did get their hands on advanced alien technology or not. Besides, it appeared in a video game, so it must be factually correct, right? Jet Kave Adventure is a…
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Who doesn’t love a good video game? It’s a wonderful escapist medium that allows losers on the Internet like us to become hulking military muscle-men with a passion for mowing down hordes of squishy, faceless enemies with relatively little effort,…
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What is it? Immortal Redneck is a first-person shooter developed and published by Crema. A mummified redneck from Kansas uses the powers of Egyptian gods to blast his way through pyramids made up of numerous, randomly-generated rooms. Upon entering a…
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What is it? Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a third-person shooter developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games. The titular maverick cop is back in the NYPD after being falsely accused of killing his…
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What started off as a tech demo of a fan-made remake of the critically-acclaimed nineties title Resident Evil 2 eventually blossomed into what is essentially a love letter to the survival-horror genre. Developed by Invader Studios and published by Destructive…
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Unabashedly suggestive and conceptually bizarre, Gun Gun Pixies is a third-person shooter developed by dual dev teams Idea Factory and SHADE, and is published by PQube. The game is little more than a mediocre shooter with fanservice shoehorned into it,…
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