video games
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I Like Your Style, Street Fighter 6, Literally
Capcom’s Street Fighter series has been going for 35 years, and stood as one of the biggest gaming franchises around. Whenever a new entry is announced — as in, a proper one, not a new version of a previously released title — it’s treated as a big deal, and that’s exactly what we got with…
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Jurassic World Tries So, So Hard to Be Good, and Almost Succeeds
Jurassic World is the most Jurassic movie of all the Jurassic movies. It takes the structure of the first movie — a theme park run amok — and blends it with the franchise’s ultimate fantasy, finally revealing what a fully functioning dinosaur theme park looks like. It’s John Hammond’s vision come to life. The result,…
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The Lost World Forgets Why Jurassic Park Is So Great
Twenty-five years ago this week, I had a very specific, very disappointing thought: “I can’t believe he didn’t use the music more.” It was my first thought as I walked out of a screening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the highly anticipated sequel to the 1993 smash Jurassic Park. Four years later, director Steven…
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Portal Ported: Fan Remakes Valve’s Classic Puzzle Game for Nintendo 64
Although Portal arrived 11 years after the N64 debuted (and five years after the GameCube, the N64’s replacement, was released) a talented developer is slowly pulling off the seemingly impossible task of recreating the classic puzzle game working on Nintendo’s first 3D console — and it doesn’t look half bad.