By Linux vs. Windows
Finally, the age-old debate has been settled.
Silent Hill 2 Plot Analysis
A long-form analysis on one of the greatest horror games ever made.
Grand Theft Railroad
Grand Theft Auto is a lousy, cheating jerk of a game.
The Death of Half-Life
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
Twelve Years
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
Could Have Been Great
Here are four games that could have been much better with just a little more work.
Mass Effect Retrospective
A novel-sized analysis of the Mass Effect series that explains where it all went wrong. Spoiler: It was long before the ending.
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Fallout New Vegas
At last, a game that merges the dark humor and depth of Fallout 1 with the modern gameplay of Fallout 3! Too bad it's so buggy.
MMO Population Problems
Computers keep getting more powerful. So why do the population caps for massively multiplayer games stay about the same?
Hardware Review
So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
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Dishonored
Part Thief, part Assassins Creed, part BioWare-style RPG. A game at once unique and yet very familiar. We're actually pretty divided on how it turned out.
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