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Madden ’19 Takes Home the Lombardi – Review (XB1)

Phil Neyman014 mins

Madden ’18 was a return to form for a series that was in desperate need of a fresh start. It’s easy to dismiss games that have yearly iterations as more of the same but, with ’18, not only did they make major improvements to the gameplay and overall fun factor – they added a single player story campaign for the first time with the incredibly popular Longshot mode. Madden ’19 takes everything that was good about ’18 and improves on it in almost every way and even brings back Longshot for season two, making this the best Madden game of the generation.

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Should You Explore the Unexplored? – Review (Switch)

Phil Neyman07 mins

Unexplored takes the game’s name very seriously. As a challenging Roguelike action RPG, no two runs will ever be the same which literally means that every time you jump back into the game you are charting unexplored territory. As you go along your adventure you will explore dangerous dungeons, forge magical items, solve mysterious puzzles’ and battle hundreds of foes. All the while’ you’ll be trying to steal the Amulet of Yendor from a terrifying dragon and attempt to make it out alive.

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Live Out Your DJ Fantasy In Electronauts – Review

Phil Neyman08 mins

Electronauts can best be described as a virtual reality DJ simulation experience. If that doesn’t immediately spark your interest I don’t know what will. Unlike most rhythm games where you hit certain notes and avoid obstacles to complete a song, receive a high score and move on to the next song -Electronauts puts you in complete control. You are not just playing a song to completion, you’re helping to create it.

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‘1979 Revolution: Black Friday’ Lets You Live Events That Defined A Nation – Review

Phil Neyman011 mins

The video game industry is still relatively young and as we see it grow we continue to find new ways to play games. What started as two lines hitting a dot back and forth has matured into a medium where we can not only have a lot of fun, but can now be used to tell important stories as well. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is one of those stories. Based on historical events that transpired in Tehran in 1978, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday shows us that Hollywood isn’t the only industry that can tell a compelling historical story.

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Fortnite Saved the World

Phil Neyman07 mins

It’s no secret that Fortnite is the new hotness. Though the game is still in its infancy it has become a pop culture phenomenon. In time it’s not hard to see Fortnite praised in the same sentence as Star Wars and Harry Potter. Not only is it breaking down barriers in the video game world, it’s taking over everywhere you look. Though it appears this happened over night it was no accident. Fortnite is another feather in the Epic games cap that for anyone paying attention shouldn’t be surprised.

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Red Faction Guerrilla ReMARStered – Review (PS4)

Phil Neyman015 mins

Red Faction Guerrilla was released nearly a decade ago and over time the game received cult like recognition. It isn’t easy to do what Volition did when they released the game in the summer of 2009. They took an established first-person shooter and completed scrapped it in favor of a third person open-world game. While we may never know how well received a Red Faction 3 would have been had it followed in the footsteps of its predecessors, we do know that Guerrilla is still kicking after all these years despite more roadblocks than you can imagine.

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How I Made Over $20k Selling Digital Cards

Phil Neyman014 mins

I remember it like it was yesterday. March 12, 2015. One of my best friends sent me a message telling me that the Topps trading card company had just released a new app on iOS and that app was a Star Wars collectible card trading game. At that time, a mere nine months before we were about to finally have a new trilogy of Star Wars films, the two words that meant the most to me were “Star Wars” – with “collectible” being a close third.

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