It’s hard to think ahead to other games at this point. This time of year, we’re generally buried in the year’s best releases. I’ve still got eighteen more riddler trophies and four riddles in Arkham City, and my character in Skyrim is level 21 and he’s only begun to scratch the game’s surface. I haven’t […]

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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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So here we are at the fifth part of my series on the elements I enjoy most in games. This time, I’ll be talking about games that allow you to create and customize something. The two games that come to mind as having done this very well are the Mechwarrior series and the old Commodore […]

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Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

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