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We Deserve Better From Games With Breakable Weapons
CRACK! CLANG! SNAP! I cringe whenever I hear these sounds in a game with breakable weapons. Neglecting to keep an eye on a sword’s durability can lead to disaster, or at least a panicked moment of...
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Get Ready For Our GI Game Club On Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
With Game Informer's new cover story on Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, we want to revive our GI Game Club format and go back for a thorough look at 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern...
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The Most Exciting Games Of Gen Con 2019
Tabletop gamers by the droves converge every year in Indianapolis for a celebration of the hobby at the mammoth Gen Con event. Long-anticipated games are released, expansions detailed, and thousands of...
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Replay – Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
Click here to watch embedded mediaThis is the final episode of Replay: Season Five! This is also the final episode of Replay: Phase One! Come next week, this silly, little show will be dramatically...
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Five Exclusive Hours With The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel III
Nihon Falcom’s Trails of Cold Steel is one of those series I wish got more love. Falcom has made a name for itself with its long-running Ys franchise, which helped pave the way for action/RPGs, but its...
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20 Characters We Want To Play As In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order has no shortage of heroes. With over 30 characters pre-loaded and DLC on the way, Marvel fans should at least have one character they’re excited to play....
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The Madden 20 X-Factors & Superstars Guide
Madden 20 introduces powerful X-Factor players and Superstar abilities only available to select players. Superstar abilities are always on, meaning players with the Shutdown ability, like Jaguars...
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The Angry Birds Movie 2 Is Not Actively Horrible
The original Angry Birds Movie was a hit. It featured a cast full of SNL alumni and other famous comedians and it grossed an estimated $350 million worldwide. I thought it was, surprisingly, pretty...
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Gearing Up For Ground War In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Ground War mode has been in other Call of Duty games, but this time it's different - and big. Real big. We played a few rounds on a massive downtown city map complete with skyscrapers and a bank in a...
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Haven’t We Been Here Before? Video Games, Violence, And The Link That Doesn’t...
An earlier version of this article appeared in Game Informer Magazine issue 301, May 2018. The article has been updated and amended to reflect recent research and events.Sometimes the worst songs have...
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What Fire Emblem: Three Houses Gets Right (And Wrong) About Teaching
Like a lot of people who graduate with a degree in English, I assumed the rest of my career would be dedicated to teaching. As it turns out, that was not the case. However, I did teach freshman English...
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Is It Time To Play Anthem Again?
Although it was originally scheduled to release in May, Anthem finally unleashed its Cataclysm, a limited-time event that introduces new story missions, loot, and a scoring challenge mode, yesterday....
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Four Franchises Dying For A Dynasty Warriors Spinoff
Games don’t get more hack-and-slash than the Dynasty Warriors series (known as Musou in Japan). A legendary warrior faces off against an entire army, striking down ten soldiers with a single swing of...
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No Man's Sky Beyond Will Let You Milk Aliens
In March, Hello Games revealed that they’d be releasing another large free update to No Man’s Sky called No Man's Sky Beyond. They promised three big features for the update: expanded online...
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Everything We Know About Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Campaign
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is already showing promise with its multiplayer. However, for many, the single-player campaign is an important part of the equation. After Treyarch opted to not include a...
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Afterwords – Sea Of Solitude
Cornelia Geppert, the creative head of the Berlin-based Jo-Mei games, wanted to create the game she always dreamed of, and she finally had the chance with Sea of Solitude.This melancholy adventure game...
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Heading Into The Season
PES 2020 comes out on September 10 (PS4, Xbox One, and PC), but its demo already gives us a glimpse of what we may see in the game's final iteration. Although Konami has promised that some changes are...
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Five Games I Can't Wait To Play This Month
I’ve played a handful of great games over the last few months, but 2019 hasn’t felt like a big year for the medium yet. In fact, it’s been somewhat disappointing. Perhaps we’ve just been spoiled over...
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Every Borderlands Character You Need To Know Before Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 is rapidly approaching, and there is a lot to catch up on. Who’s doing what, why are they doing it, why are there so many guns, and just what the heck is a Claptrap? These are big games...
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All The Ways You Can Customize Your Modern Warfare Multiplayer Character
Customization has become a bigger and bigger part of allowing players to express themselves in online multiplayer matches. For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward wants to not only allow...
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