Posts By Eric Van Allen
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4.2KFeaturesGT Game of the Year 2015 — Day 5
This was a banner year for gaming. From the dark alleys of Yharnam to the farthest reaches of space, from hidden ancient...
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2.0KFeaturesGT Game of the Year 2015 — Day 4
This was a banner year for gaming. From the dark alleys of Yharnam to the farthest reaches of space, from hidden ancient...
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3.2KFeaturesGT Game of the Year 2015 — Day 3
This was a banner year for gaming. From the dark alleys of Yharnam to the farthest reaches of space, from hidden ancient...
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3.8KFeaturesGT Game of the Year 2015 — Day 2
This was a banner year for gaming. From the dark alleys of Yharnam to the farthest reaches of space, from hidden ancient...
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3.5KFeaturesGT Game of the Year 2015 — Travis’ Top 10
Travis Northup’s Objectively Correct Top Ten Games of 2015: 10. Destiny: The Taken King I’d be lying if I said that I always...
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2.7KFeaturesGaming Trend’s 2015 Game of the Year Awards
This was a banner year for gaming. From the dark alleys of Yharnam to the farthest reaches of space, from hidden ancient...
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3.1KReviewsAlways be clearing — Amplitude review
Before Guitar Hero or Rock Band broke the rhythm game genre wide-open, Harmonix was already laying the groundwork with Amplitude. A rhythmic...
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1.9KFeaturesGT Game of the Year 2015 — Day 1
This was a banner year for gaming. From the dark alleys of Yharnam to the farthest reaches of space, from hidden ancient...
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3.9KReviewsHatoful holiday cheer — Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star review
Hatoful Boyfriend was one of the stranger games I played this year. Both a silly tale of a human girl going to...
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3.5KReviewsA sluggish march forward — Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires for Vita review
The Dynasty Warriors experience is one that seems best-suited to portability. It thrives in quick bursts of action, occupying your hours with...
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3.0KPreviewsExploring a corrupted world with isometric Souls-inspired Eitr
In Norse mythology, the word “eitr” refers to a substance that is the source of all living things, yet is also corrupting...
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2.4KPreviewsGeometric rhythm meets multiplayer mayhem in Just Shapes & Beats
Throughout the Playstation Experience, there was always one booth pumping music, with a single TV that was always occupied. After listening to...
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3.1KPreviewsPeering into the abyss with retro action platformer Chasm
Metroidvania is a term that gets a little over-used. It isn’t very descriptive and demands knowledge of two games and their inner...
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2.2KPreviewsA city of intrigue, art and murder unmasked in Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
One of my favorite parts of a new role-playing game is getting absolutely lost in the universe. The best RPGs, in my...
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4.9KReviewsFull of sound and fury — Rainbow Six: Siege review
Tactical play is a hallmark of the Rainbow Six series. Although differing in intensity, each entry has tried to put a spin...
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3.1KPreviewsTaking the road less travelled with Stories: Path of Destinies
Every story has a branch, a “what-if” moment where the protagonist wonders if they might have been able to do something differently....
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4.0KReviewsThat’s no moon — Star Wars Battlefront review
Nostalgia is a powerful tool. It signifies an emotional attachment to something, and that’s valuable in its own right. Games like Shovel...
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4.6KReviewsThe devil’s in the fine print — Typoman review
Typoman is a game about the power of the pen, the strength that words have, and what can happen to a society...
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4.2KReviewsA ghoulishly good time — Yo-Kai Watch review
Within an hour of starting up Yo-Kai Watch, I had befriended several ghouls, including a talking cat named Jibanyan who punched cars...
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10.1KReviewsI will rise, again and again — Rise of the Tomb Raider review
“When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always...
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6.2KReviewsFour times the chaos, four times the charm — Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below review
Having no prior experience with Dragon Quest before picking up Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below, I...
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6.1KReviewsBurning out your fuse up here alone — Rebel Galaxy review
Space isn’t always the idealistic future we paint it to be. While some portray it as a romantic opera of gallantry and...
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7.1KReviewsSomeday, we will foresee obstacles — Life is Strange Episode 5 “Polarized” review
This is part five of our coverage of Life is Strange, and the review score reflects the series as a whole. If...
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2.5KFeaturesGaming Trend’s Games of the Quarter Q3 2015 — The home stretch
We’re closing in on the home stretch, and games are starting to blur together like faces in a mosh pit. This last...
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4.1KReviewsBuilding a lasting Lego universe — LEGO Dimensions review
Toys-to-life games haven’t managed to hook me in at all. The idea of game content tied to physical figurines was already a...
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5.2KReviewsIdeal framing — Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water review
Fatal Frame has always been a series that eluded me, spare the few hours I spent with Crimson Butterfly on the PS2...
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4.5KReviewsBubblegum fighter — Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax review
All-star fighting games are nothing new to the genre, because they’re fairly easy to conceive and create. Take any number of cameo...
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12.5KReviewsUnderground-bound — Undertale review
“Spiritual successor” is a fickle term. It denotes that a work is not part of an established canon, but cannot exist without...
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4.1KReviewsGrinding for favor — Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance review
If something ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was the thought that kept returning to me every time I booted up Disgaea...
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4.6KReviewsTactical espionage brilliance — Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain review
It’s 0200. Clouds move overhead in the distance, slowly closing in. It’s dark, but it will be light soon. I lay prone...
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4.8KReviewsTale as odd as time — Steins;Gate review
Everyone has that moment in their life they wish they could undo. It can be as major as burning that final bridge...
