Tag: video-games
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Microsoft Didn’t Just Shut Down Tango Gameworks. It May Have Ended AAA Risk Taking.
I wrote last week about how shocked I am that Death Stranding was ever made. In an era where development times and costs have ballooned, publishers seem more risk averse than ever when it comes to their biggest budget titles. While we have been lucky to have a lot of fantastic games in the last…
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Tales of Kenzera Review: Heart is Not Enough
One of my favorite parts of last year’s Game Awards was the speech that Abubaker Salim gave to introduce Tales of Kenzera: Zau. In a ceremony filled with random celebrities and dumb bits, this was a moment where a game developer poured his heart out and made me care about his game purely through his…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games of 2021
This is the next step in my journey to eventually release a top 50 games of all time list. 2021 was one of the weaker years in recent gaming history to me. The pandemic slowing down work for a while is a pretty logical explanation as to why. Despite that, there was enough good where…
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My Top 10 Games With a Metacritic Score of 76 Or Less
As I talked about in my post last week, when a game averages scores in the 7s on an aggregator site like Metacritic, it seems to have a bit of a stink on it. Gamers become wary of it and even view it as a bad score, despite the fact that almost every review scale…
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Harold Halibut Review: Worth The Wait
There are some games, even some I absolutely loved, where the credits hit, and I immediately skip them and move on to something else. And then there are the games where the credits roll, and I end up sitting there and just taking it all in. I become lost in thought, reflecting about what just…
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Gaming Round Up: Ultros, Unicorn Overlord, and Harold Halibut
I promised a list of my top 10 games with a Metacritic score of 76 or under today, but that project ended up being a bit more labor intensive than I anticipated, so that list will now be coming Tuesday. Instead, here is another gaming round up with some of the things I have new…
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PSA: 7/10s are Good Video Games
The tension in the air is palpable in the moments before a big video game is about to have its review embargo lifted. The review scores that drop will have giant implications for how a game is discussed for years to come. The general scale gamers seem to have when looking at reviews is as…
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The Ten Biggest Winners From The III Showcase + My Thoughts on Indie Games
As long as I am writing about video games, I will be writing and talking about indie games. I don’t do this out of charity or out of some sort of hipster pride. I write about indie games because year after year, they go toe to toe with AAA games and produce some of the…
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April Mailbag: Most Anticipated Games, PS/Xbox Showcases and More!
I didn’t have tons to talk about this week, as I slowly whittle away at the four different games I am currently playing, so it was the perfect time for a mailbag post. Thanks to all of those who sent in questions! “Been a year of amazing games so far, what else are you looking…
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Gaming Round Up: Stellar Blade, Sand Land, Unicorn Overlord, and Ultros
When Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth came out at the end of March, I became a bit of a mad man. For a little over 3 weeks, it was basically the only game I touched. This was from a mix of absolutely loving the game, really being invested in the story, and not wanting to get…
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