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‘Super Meat Boy Forever’ Review: A Successor to One of the Biggest Indie Games Ever?

When I played Super Meat Boy Forever for the first time at PAX East 2018, I was absolutely blown away at how polished it seemed, and even though no release date was given, I felt that it couldn’t be far…

Google’s Stadia & Cloud Services: The Conglomeration of Video Game

In case you missed it, Google held a Stadia Connect presentation today ahead of E3, outlining the upcoming Stadia service. The platform will stream games from Google servers onto your device, handling all of the computation on their end. It’s…

Magic Arena: Mythic Invitational PAX East 2019 – interview with eSports Director Bear Schmiedicker

Magic: The Gathering has just finished celebrating its 25th anniversary year, and concluded it with the announcement of the Magic Pro League, an officially sponsored league made up of the 32 top players of the last year that will allow…

The Messenger’s Thierry Boulanger on DLC Update ‘Picnic Panic’ | PAX East 2019

The Messenger is a top notch indie title inspired by NES and SNES classics like Ninja Giaden and Super Metroid, and is one of the most critically adored game releases of 2018 for its fluid gameplay and characters filled to…

Super Meat Boy Forever’s Tommy Refenes on accessibly challenging game design | PAX East 2019

Super Meat Boy Forever is a follow up to 2010 indie platformer game that innovated with simplicity and ushered in a revival of challenging games akin to classic arcade titles and the NES era. Due for release in 2019, the…

MSI Laptop Variants & Intel 9 Series Desktop Ready for 2019 | PAX East

Upon a crowded gaming stage featuring Battle Royale hits Fortnite and Apex Legends, Sam goes under the hood on the tech running these squad team ups and deathmatches with MSI marketing leaders to find just what is running their premiere…

‘Sonic Adventure’ 20th Anniversary | Retro-Graded Games

On December 23rd 1998, twenty years ago today, Sonic Adventure was released for the Sega Dreamcast. Just in time for Christmas, the first 3D game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series sold incredibly well, received critical acclaim, and is still…