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Why Starfield Feels Dated (and Why Simply Being Skyrim in Space isn’t Enough)

When Bethesda Game Studios first unveiled Starfield, the excitement was palpable. For over two decades, Bethesda has been synonymous with vast, open-world RPGs like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, each defining new heights in immersive gameplay. Naturally, a game that…

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What I am Playing: the Outer Worlds

There’s an urge to compare The Outer Worlds with Fallout from the get go, when you get revived from decades’ long cryogenic sleep and end up crash landing on a nearby planet. These two share some of their DNA, given…

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Playing Skyrim in 2019: Catching up with an Old Friend

Since I mostly game from my aging gaming laptop these days, I have been trying my hand at a couple of older games these last few months. These games varied from underrated gems such as Prince of Persia: Warrior Within…

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RAGE 2: An Outlandish Misstep

When I played RAGE on PC, it was a buggy mess with a drab world and a run-of-the-mill campaign. When RAGE 2 was announced at E3 last year, however, I was pleasantly excited by the improvements and the colorful presentation…