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Old games used to get overly serious and realistic art. Arcade games and console games are fundamentally different in a lot of ways. While the hardware, game mechanics, and depth of narrative might be the most obvious, there is something at the core of the two that keeps them

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Crossing Souls is an independent and retro-inspired video game currently looking for funding on Kickstarter. You can check out the trailer for the game on the Kickstarter page or on YouTube. Does the song in the trailer sound familiar? Yep, that's Timecop1983! He is going to

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I was seven years old when I was first exposed to the world (metaworld?) of Final Fantasy. It was a few days after Christmas of 1999 and my cousin had received Final Fantasy VIII as a gift. Being seven in the presence of a teenager meant I had

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Gamer Smoke Signals EP Smoke Signals by GAMER Gamer, hailing from New Zealand (the country that has royally bought us Lorde) have released their second EP "Smoke Signals". Stylistically, as their name implies, Gamer sits at the 8-bit, retro video game end of the musical spectrum. Drums are suitably simple and rigidly programmed and the

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