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In the vast universe of gaming, finding the right game can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. That’s where our ‘Best Games’ category comes to the rescue. Curated by a team of seasoned gamers who have navigated the pixelated terrains, epic storylines, and adrenaline-pumping challenges, this section spotlights the crème de la crème of the gaming world. Whether you’re into fast-paced shooters, intricate puzzles, sprawling RPGs, or narrative-driven indies, our expert recommendations ensure you experience only the best. Skip the guesswork and dive straight into masterpieces that resonate, thrill, and leave an indelible mark.
So, what makes a game “retro” anyway? One would say that the only real qualifier is age and a graphical base that’s significantly behind the times, as it were. However, if you took a short-sided view of what it means to be retro then you’d be entirely avoiding the overall aesthetics behind recent trends which see gamers going back to explore titles from the past. Whereas a lot of analysts tend to see the retro movement as one concerned with a strong desire to explore specific types of older gameplay, one could just as easily argue that it is driven…
The thrill of exploration, the looting, the seemingly endless possibilities and boundless adventure…Role-Playing Games stand tall as one of the most appealing and largely popular genres within all of video gaming. Additionally, there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of individual offerings out there, not to mention loads of series which are steeped in incremental development thereby offering steady improvements in gameplay and visuals on multiple fronts. This is one of the main reasons why putting together a list of the top 5 RPG’s (for any platform) is so daunting, of course (not to mention the fact that there will likely…
Chalk it up to marketing or perhaps some other clever business move, Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld console remains one of the first significant mobile gaming devices to ever come onto the market. In fact, the Game Boy is so well-known and popular that many aren’t even aware of the fact that there were other similar units available from Sega, TurboExpress, Atari, etc. Moreover, many feel that some of the competitors were actually offering better devices; nevertheless, Nintendo’s handheld topped them all. Obviously, a gaming device can’t become increasingly popular without there being a few great titles in its library (814…
It could be said that the modern era of console gaming started with the hardy little PS1. After all, we’re talking about a device here that effectively ushered in a disc-based format and helped to popularize gaming as an everyday household activity. Sure, one could argue that the Nintendo (the original NES) was really the first console to firmly plant video gaming on a TV into the minds the populace, but it did so with less-than-optimal graphics (no ability to render 3D environments, for example). Simply put, there wasn’t a lot that game developers could do with the NES platform…