Talking Point: When Was The Last Time A Game Cracked Your Top Five?
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As Abraham Lincoln once said, boy, do I love a good video game. But since his time, how many of those video games have actually been life-changingly good? How many video games can we truly describe as The Shawshank Redemption of shmups or The Shrek 2 of JRPGs ? Well, I put that answer to you, dear readers.
We all have different taste in games, but we all (hopefully) also have a Top Five of all-time, engraved into our brains alongside our favourite food (egg) and our favourite operating system (Windows 95) as markers of our personality. Mine, for reference, usually includes Fantasy Life, Ghost Trick, Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Legend of Zelda: Majora s Mask, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but depending on my mood, sometimes Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney sneaks in there, too.
Xbox Game Pass Adds 15 New Games, Gets Ascent at Launch, and Loses Kingdom Hearts
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Xbox today revealed that it’s adding over a dozen new games to Game Pass. The games run the gamut from old favorites to new releases, but all are going to launch on the service before the end of the month. In addition, we’re also getting a new game called
The Ascent as a Game Pass launch later this year, though we’re losing almost the entire
Kingdom Hearts series.
Secret Neighbor,
The Wild at Heart,
Knockout City,
Solasta: Crown of the Magister, and
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Published on 8 May, 2021
Videogame awards are good for three things: they encourage people to continue creating new work; they direct attention towards particular pebbles among the otherwise amorphous landslide of new game releases; and they give bystanders like me something of mercifully little consequence to gripe about when nominations don t align with our personal tastes.
I m sad to report that the Independent Games Festival has delivered only two out of three in 2021. The nominations for this year s IGF Awards were announced yesterday, but they have left me little to gripe about.
Sure, there s some changes I d make, but there s no glaring omissions in my eyes. The panel of jurists have correctly identified that Teardown was one of the best games released last year, for example, and so it is nominated for both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence In Design. The Grand Prize nominees also include Paradise Killer, Umurangi Generation, and Spiritf
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