Author: Noah Smith
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It was another great year for boomer shooters, but can we call them something else now?
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I love everything about boomer shooters except for the fact that a better name hasn’t managed to stick. I’ve taken to calling them “good FPS games with health packs and keycards” in protest, but naming conventions aside, this loosely related group of show-stopping shooters hasn’t let off the gas for years now, and there’s no…
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Retro FPS Beyond Sunset is a precision-crafted cyberpunk potpourri of all the great megawads that came before it
The perpetually rain slick streets of Sunset City might be the best environment ever rendered in GZDoom—it’s uncluttered, atmospheric, and sexy in that vintage cyberpunk way. The outside areas evoke yellowed paperback memories of Neuromancer’s Sprawl, with sparsely decorated interiors that feel right out of Johnny Mnemonic. Moody synths call to mind Vangelis’s work on…
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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review in progress: A good Far Cry with big problems
Despite receiving an early copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora late last week, my time with the game pre-release has been uneven, to say the very least: Full on system crashes, poor performance, and bizarre progress erasing interface bugs (namely a perpetually grayed out “continue” button that only works when the game is deleted and…
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Robocop: Rogue City review | PC Gamer
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Robocop: Rogue City’s combat feels like straight up murder: I totally lost it when I punched someone for the first time and Robocop’s fist flew out with the force of a particle accelerator, instantly atomizing their skull. A few minutes later I had to take a breather after picking up a dumpster and squashing four…
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Wizard with a Gun review
Need to Know What is it? Top-down cooperative roguelite with gunslinging wizards.Release date October 17, 2023Expect to pay $25/£21Developer Galvanic GamesPublisher Devolver DigitalReviewed on Radeon RX 6600, Ryzen 7 5700G, 32GB DDR4 RAMLink Official site Wizard with a Gun is surprisingly moody, though I imagine any wizard would be when staring down odds as bad…