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Over the past decade or so, as the gaming community has become more connected, a peculiar set of stories and rumors have bubbled to the surface. Most are pretty silly – tall tales of finding the Secret Cow level in Diablo, collecting the Triforce in Ocarina of Time, or resurrecting …

Start your engines Kart racers endure as one of gaming’s purest, most enjoyable genres. As developers continue to push the envelope with convoluted plotlines and complex mechanics, kart racers remain focused on one thing: fun. They’re the sort of game your parents, siblings, and best friends can sit down and …

They used to be so good Nowadays, we’ve been trained to be distrustful of licensed movie tie-ins. We’ve seen too many sloppy, half-finished games, assembled at the last minute to turn a profit on gullible moviegoers. Sure, the Lego games are alright, and there have been a few film spin-offs …

We scoured gaming history to find the closest of bros that exemplify the heady high of that intense and awesome brand of friendship. We begin some 25 years ago with… 7. Billy and Jimmy (Double Dragon) The two young men, dressed in the toughest attire of the era, work together …

Tsk. Bugs, eh. In games. Nothing worse. They’re not meant to be there. But sometimes they are and that’s where they stay until Mr Developer stops fiddling with his massive beard and decides to do something about it. And he always does something about it because he knows otherwise gamers …

Video games,we’re sure we can all agree, are pretty great. In their completed form (or at their least ready-for-fourteen-patches-form) they illuminate our lives with multitudinous delights, beaming purest joy from our TVs, through our eyes, and straight into our brains. But they don’t just appear in the world fully-formed. No, …

But that was the easy part. Now comes the true torture – the week in which I reluctantly delve into the dank, dark sewer that is the bottom of Metacritic’s review rankings to bring you the extreme opposite end of the spectrum. For every Portal, there’s a Party Megamix. For …