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METROID DREAD is a Great Game, But Not a Great Metroidvania

To a significant portion of modern players, the Metroid series exists more as sacred text for the popular Metroidvania genre than as actual ...

By Corey GuenNovember 16, 20210

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Screening the Call to Adventure

In 2009 Steven Porfiri was accused of never having played a video game before by someone on a GameFAQs message board, and the ...

By Steven PorfiriDecember 18, 20200

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Nobody Trusts Anybody Now, And CARRION Is Partially To Blame

The sheer concept of paranoia has (justifiably) given John Carpenter’s 1982 film THE THING new life as an eerie and prescient quarantine screening ...

By CJ SimonsonAugust 25, 20200

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METROID DREAD is a Great Game, But Not a Great Metroidvania

Screening the Call to Adventure

Nobody Trusts Anybody Now, And CARRION Is Partially To Blame

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