25- Braid (Jonathan Blow, PC, 2009) Braid took the gaming world by storm primarily because of its creativity. The game originally showed up on XBox Live Arcade in 2008, but I didn’t play it until later, when it became available on Steam. Although it’s an excellent 2D sidescroller in its own right, Braid’s greatest achievement […]

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My wife and I have always played video games together. Back when we were first dating, she bought a gaming PC and left it over my house so that she could come over and play Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gate with me. Later, we played Dungeon Siege, Champions of Norrath and Gauntlet Legends together. These […]

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This week is all about the PC games. In looking over things, just about half the games on my top 50 list are PC games. As an aside, twenty-two of them have zombies in them. List analytics aside, let’s look at the next five games. 30 – Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog Productions, Windows, 1997) Despite being […]

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Insanely ridiculous. That’s how I’d describe No More Heroes. And I love it. I was a fan of the first game, but it had issues. In the sequel, many of those issues have been fixed. And as far as over-the-top goes, they’ve outdone themselves. It’s like the boss battle in the first game in which […]

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Today I continue my list of my top fifty games of all time. 35- Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Silicon Knights, Nintendo Gamecube, 2002) The Nintendo Wii plays GameCube games. When I got my Wii, the only GameCube game that I eagerly hunted down was this one, because I’d heard so much about it. It did […]

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Although the ending is a bit climactic, Heir does a good job of capturing Shadow of the Colossus’s gameplay in a 2D form. The music sounds sufficiently epic, and the colossus is… well, colossal. Play Heir

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I spent this weekend at a beach in Mantoloking. Riding the waves, sitting in the sun, and most importantly: building sand castles with my daughter. I’ve always enjoyed building sand castles, preferrably as the tide is coming in. You dig a trench, use that sand to build a horseshoe-shaped wall, and erect some towers behind […]

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This week, the five games I’ll be covering in my top fifty list include many newer games – games that didn’t exist at the end of 2007 when I last composed a top fifty list. 40-Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Arkane Studios, Windows, 2008) Dark Messiah was panned in reviews because the plot was lame […]

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