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‘Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers’ is My Newest Love (Review)

In the deepest and darkest part of my brain, there’s a part of me that would play Balatro for the rest of my life. The other part of my brain is...

01.01.2025 3

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‘Tetris Effect’-Music and Movement 

There’s no shortage of Tetris out there. Tetris 99 for a long time was  my favorite version of it, and it kept me locked in for months. My highest...

31.12.2024 30

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’-It’ll Be Ready When It’s Ready and I Like That 

We’re almost at the end of 2024. It’s been 5 years since Team Cherry announced Hollow Knight: Silksong and one question has been on everyone’s...

31.12.2024 3

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Retro Runback: ‘NBA and NFL Street’

If I had to quantify the amount of time I’ve spent begging for particular games to make a comeback, I’d guess the EA BIG ‘Street’ series has...

28.12.2024 10

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‘Weird West’ Grabbed Me By The Neck and Didn’t Let Go

Some of my favorite games I’ve ever played, I just ended up taking a chance on. Early Rocket League, Geometry Wars 2 are just a couple. There’s...

27.12.2024 5

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All About The Boom: ‘Call of Duty’ and Its Emphasis on Action

Call of Duty has always been a fairly interesting franchise to me. Both in its execution and the response to it. I’ve been down on it on a few...

27.12.2024 10

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Xbox Indie Game Demo Event: ‘Section 13’ and ‘Arctic Awakening’

The Xbox Indie Game Demo Event gave devs a chance to showcase games that were in development, but with something to show. The event runs through Dec...

26.12.2024 3

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My Time With ‘Destiny 2’ and Why I Had to Put it Down

I’ve probably put over 1,000 hours into Destiny 2 from the time it launched to the day I finally put it down for good about a year ago. So what...

24.12.2024 2

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PowerWash Simulator- My Unexpected Comfort Game

I often spend my gaming time as low impact as possible right now. Think Kobe on some of those last playoff runs saying he was only dunking if it was...

24.12.2024 4

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Retro Runback: ‘Goldeneye 007’

There aren’t many games that cause a flood of memories to come back quite like the N64 classic shooter, Goldeneye 007. The single player was cool,...

23.12.2024 4

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‘The Holy Gosh Darn’: The Best Adult Swim Show That Isn’t One (Review)

Adult animation is a genre of TV that holds a very special place in my heart. From The Simpsons to Family Guy and the somehow underrated Adult Swim...

23.12.2024 3

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Bots Aren’t All Bad: Multiplayer for the Single-Player Minded 

I am and always have been a primarily single-player gamer. I’ll hop  online with my friends and run some matches with them but it’s not ...

21.12.2024 10

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Mass Effect: Andromeda- I’m Going To Try This Again

I love the original Mass Effect trilogy. That’s not exactly a huge leap but it is what makes Mass Effect: Andromeda so disappointing. I was ready...

21.12.2024 3

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‘THRESHOLD’ is Horror That Made Me Question My Sanity (Review)

Horror is an interesting genre in video games. Often, the play is to scare players straight up.  Foreboding music, high-pitched stings, the classic...

17.12.2024 4

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‘Ballionaire’ Brings Something Different to Roguelikes (Review)

As a kid growing up in the 90’s, time spent with your grandparents was often spent running  errands and sitting at home watching various daytime TV...

17.12.2024 5

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‘Tales of Kenzera: Zau’ Got Me Through My Own Grief

December 15, 2009, is the worst yet most important day of my life. I lost my Grandma that day. She was everything to me. The person who I felt...

15.12.2024 6

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How MachineGames Filled a Gap in Indiana Jones’ History (Interview)

I recently reviewed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and I loved it. It was a true love letter to the franchise and a perfect entry into the series...

14.12.2024 6

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‘[REDACTED]’ is the Newest Roguelike to Put Me in a Chokehold

I love the Roguelike genre. It’s the perfect mix of challenge and intelligence. So, when I had the chance to play [REDACTED], I was anticipating a...

11.12.2024 8

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‘Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’ Is the Fourth Movie We Actually Wanted (Review)

I’ve been an Indiana Jones fan my whole life. My Dad introduced me to the movies when I was a kid, and it was on from there. Gaming-wise, there were...

06.12.2024 6

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‘Astro Bot’ and Sackboy Remind Us of the Beauty of Platforming

The best thing about Game of the Year contender and platforming king, Astro Bot, is that it’s a reminder of an era of gaming that straight-up...

30.11.2024 10

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Sony Has Handled Its First Party Studios (Almost) Perfectly

A weird thing happened on the way to this era of gaming. Sony magically found its footing as the AAA-narrative focused company. For me, the beginning...

23.11.2024 10

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‘DEATH NOTE Killer Within’ Impressions

I’m vaguely familiar with Death Note at least enough to know who Ryuk is and what the Death Note itself is. My main experience with the titular book...

23.11.2024 10

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True Gaming Stories: Perfect Dark and My Godbrother 

This series is a chance for us here at Waypoint to talk about why we love gaming and even some of the funnier stories we’ve experienced. For me,...

20.11.2024 7

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The Game Awards are Cool, But We Need E3 

The Game Awards announced their list of nominees recently. While I’m generally excited for this and Summer Game Fest each year, I can’t help but...

19.11.2024 10

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Offset Rumbles With French Rapper Gazo in Wild Brawl Caught on Camera

Offset had to be held back during a brawl with French rapper Gazo. The incident took place in Paris and was all caught on camera. In footage shared...

18.11.2024 5

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Coheed And Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez Nails The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’

If your elder-emo sense is tingling, it’s probably because of Coheed And Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez’s new cover of The Cure’s “Just Like...

18.11.2024 9

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Mess Around Mondays — Pac-Man: 2PACalypse

Early video games are interesting because there’s no explicit story. At least, not in the way we consider a narrative in gaming now. A lot of what...

18.11.2024 4

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The Cartoon Network Shockwave Game Era

In some ways, I take great pride in aging myself as a gamer. This is one of those times. A true “you had to be there” moment but if you were...

17.11.2024 5

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The Lion King: My Gaming Nemesis 

There are games that I am certain children should not have been playing. Let’s leave Doom, Mortal Kombat and others out of the question. Yeah, they...

17.11.2024 10

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The Movie Tie-In Era was a Dark Time 

There was a time where every major movie that came out had to have a game that tied into it. I don’t mean that in the metaphorical sense, I mean...

17.11.2024 9

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Guitar Hero: Gateway to Music 

Music is very important to me and has been since I was a kid. My first musical memory is hearing Billie Jean for the first time when I was 5. I’ve...

17.11.2024 10

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Xbox Should Accept the Publisher Role 

Well, it seems to be almost that time. Xbox has recently started their “This is an Xbox” marketing in which they list anything with a screen as an...

16.11.2024 10

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All Gas, No Brakes: Why Simulation Racing Isn’t for Me

I do love racing games. But as I’ve said before, it’s a very specific style that catches my eye. I’m more into arcade racers than anything else....

16.11.2024 10

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3 Divisive Games I’d Gladly Perish Defending 

There’s an iconic scene in “Game of Thrones” during the Battle of the Bastards where Jon Snow unsheathes his sword in the face of an oncoming...

15.11.2024 8

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‘It Takes Two’: Proving Connection Is Key

When It Takes Two won Game of the Year at the 2021 Game Awards, I wasn’t someone who questioned it. I love indie games, so I was glad to see one...

14.11.2024 10

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‘Elden Ring’: Delaying My Descent into Madness

Up top: I am not a FromSoftware guy. That’s not to say I think the games are bad. I value myself as a gamer too much to say something asinine like...

14.11.2024 6

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‘Dishonored’: Bethesda’s Underrated Classic

There are very few games that left an impression on me the way that Dishonored did. From a gameplay perspective, it’s one of the most unique...

13.11.2024 9

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‘Split/Second’ Deserved a Sequel, Not the Trash Can

Racing games are one of my favorite genres in gaming. But I’m very specific about which games resonate with me. Need For Speed: Underground 2,...

12.11.2024 6

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‘Star Fox Adventures’: The Best Zelda Game That Isn’t Zelda

Nintendo has a habit of branching out in interesting ways. The Wii, Zelda II, Metroid Prime, and Hyrule Warriors — just to name a few. But the...

12.11.2024 5

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Mess Around Mondays: What Job Was Mario Best At?

As a proud member of the FOH Army, I want to note that Shea Serrano was a huge inspiration for this series, where we’ll be looking at gaming from a...

12.11.2024 6

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Why Is a Superman Game So Hard to Make?

We’ve seen classic games in the superhero world. The Batman: Arkham trilogy, Insomniac’s Spider-Man series, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance just...

11.11.2024 5

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Cruel Summer: The Smash Bros. Gauntlet

You kids. You just fire up Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and get to play as Sonic. No real struggle, just character select screen and have fun. I can’t...

09.11.2024 10

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‘Doom’: My Dad Raised Me in Hell, and I Was Better for It 

Playing Doom has made me acutely aware of something: My dad and I are two completely different people. He’s very outgoing and will talk to pretty...

09.11.2024 3

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‘What Lies in the Multiverse’: A Hidden Indie Gem 

Before I get into this, I used to work for Untold Tales, the publisher of What Lies in the Multiverse. I spent 9 months with them this year after...

08.11.2024 6

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‘AEW: FIGHT FOREVER’- What Went Wrong?

I’m a huge wrestling fan. And I have been since I first saw Sting in his “Crow” character when I was a kid. I eventually moved on to be a fan of...

07.11.2024 7

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Remasters Are Becoming Necessary and That’s a Problem

We’ve officially reached the point where we’re depending on remasters to play games we loved in the past. Owning an older console and picking up...

06.11.2024 6

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What Backwards Compatibility Means for Switch Successor

Nintendo just announced that the Switch successor will be backwards compatible with the Switch and that Nintendo Switch Online will remain available....

06.11.2024 2

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‘Mass Effect 2’: A Lesson in Accountability  

My original Mass Effect 2 playthrough is legendary in my friend circle. I was so locked in on the story that it didn’t dawn on me that doing the...

05.11.2024 7

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