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Duke Nukem Forever: The Lost Draft

The man enters the gold-laden womb of the elevator, thumbing the button that will lower the hanging palace-like box to the ground floor. Like clockwork, he glances at his present level and spews his usual raspy line, to no one ...

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The ROM Dump: Arkista's Ring and Solstice

The ROM Dump: The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin

As serious a topic as Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin is, the subtle complexities of the Sega CD incarnation can be almost completely dissected through an analysis of the pun-tacular main track, “Swing Time.” A collaboration bet...

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7 Reasons Why

I don’t expect much form the internet. As a totally current and informed gamer, I know my opinion to be not only valid but taken as solid-gold fact by the many people that don’t care as much as I do. And brother, believe me...

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Soundtrack Spotlight: Super Mario Land

Soundtrack: Super Mario Land Composed by: Hirokazu Tanaka Mario’s Game Boy debut saw him take a bit a of detour into the unconventional. Super Mario Land‘s Sarasaland comes with strange one-off characters and some f...

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The CFD! Airship Compendium

“Airships had been a dream of many people…After the realization of the dream, came greed and ambition.”-Final Fantasy IV Of all vehicles (fictional or otherwise) portrayed in video games, certainly there is no...

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Soundtrack Spotlight: Grand Theft Auto IV

Mixed by: Mr. Law We’re at least knee-deep in the summer of 2011 and so, for a proper celebration, we’re flashing back to the summer(ish)time of 2008. This seventy-minute megamix–a patchwork of songs from the ...

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The ROM Dump: Arkista’s Ring and Solstice

Arkista’s Ring was probably released too late in the life of the NES (1990) to qualify as a Legend of Zelda imitator–which it actually isn’t–but it was a bit ahead of its time in a different regard; name...

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The CFD! E3 2011 Picture Show: Ubisoft Conference

We get it: E3 is busy and hectic and you just don’t have the time to stop and read about all those announcements and things that might have happened while you were kept away by your busy, productive life. It’s O.K. With t...

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