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Backlog: The Embiggening - June, 2015

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/24/15 at 03:53 PM CT

With the coming of June, all of the little schoolchildren will, once again, have free reign to wash across the world in a wave of terror. Hopefully there will be plenty of new game releases to keep them busy. In their rooms. Away from the adults.

Unfortunately for us, June will be bringing a resurgence of licensed shovelware, which has been mercifully absent for months now. There will be a new...

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Konami’s Fall: The Seppuku of the Last Gaming Samurai

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/17/15 at 03:42 PM CT

During the Golden Age of gaming, the entire foundation of the industry was made from Japanese stonework. Nintendo, Sega, and Sony built the machines to run the games, while Nintendo, Sega, Squaresoft, Enix, Capcom, and Konami built the games that not only salvaged the industry from Atari’s (delenda est) chronic mism...

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Amiibos: The Physical DLC Gimmick

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/10/15 at 05:12 PM CT

At this point in the 8th Generation, it has become quite obvious that Nintendo, once a paragon of the old console traditions and the last holdout in the face of updates and DLC, has given up and joined the rest of the console makers in adopting less-than-beloved modern business practices. With “Mario Kart 8,” “Super Smash Bros. U,” “Hyrule Warriors,” and the brand new “Splatoon” a...

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Backlog: The Embiggening - May, 2015

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/03/15 at 07:08 PM CT

April Showers bring May Flowers, as the old children’s song goes. But what happens when the only precipitation in April took the form of ports and remasters? More of the same!

May will be bringing “Final Fantasy 4: The After Years” (the 7th Gen’s only good ‘Final Fantasy’ game) to Steam… but not the same ve...

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