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Announcing: Podcasts on Maximum Utmost
Goodbye! Or Hello! We’re announcing today the start of an exciting new chapter for Maximum Utmost. Podcasts! And we have a lot of them coming your way soon so look forward to the Maximum Utcast in the coming weeks from Zoey and Jonathan (and more new friends!) To start things off, we’re showcasing some of the primordial ooze of what…
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Swery’s next game, Hotel Barcelona, is open for business in September
Are you ready to... What the hell is this game even about? Are you ready to have a serial killer in your head? That doesn't sound like something most people would want, but if you answered "yes," Hotel Barcelona is out this September.
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Review – The Typing of the Dead
Do your finger exercised, elevate your wrists, put your feet flat on the ground, and get read to type at some zombies. Typing of the Dead takes the zombie-killing gameplay of House of the Dead 2 and perverts it in ways that nature didn't intend: by adding typing.
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Retro-Bit’s next Genesis reproduction is the formerly Japan-Only Undeadline
Ever heard of Undeadline? Me neither. Maybe because it was never released in North America. Now it's happening, because Retro-Bit has selected it as their next Genesis/Mega Drive reproduction. Let's learn together!
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Review – Irem Collection Volume 3
It's a good time for arcade collections! I lied, it isn't. PS2 was where it was at when arcade collections would have, like, 30 titles on them, and you could always find them in the bargain bin. Contrary to that, here's Irem Collection Volume 3.
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Yes, you should play bad games
Budgeting your time and money so you can fit in as many "good" games as possible before you die is boring. There are so many ways that you can enhance your understanding and appreciation of games by deliberately playing the bad ones. Let me explain...
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Review – Shadows of the Empire
It smells like early N64 in here. I must be Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. What a match! A brand new hyped up console getting hyped up by a game made to hype up a latent movie franchise. But, you know what? It worked. Mostly.
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Review – System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
I never played System Shock 2. I’ve thought about it. Some people that I respect really dig it. However, some people that I respect dig the spiritual successor, Bioshock, and I don’t really care for that series. However, back in 2023, I reviewed the System Shock remake for Destructoid, and I really enjoyed it. I think I mostly enjoyed the…
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Old wounds and making sense of Swery
“I don’t believe that the sheep you’re talking about was named after you.” That isn’t a direct quote. It’s something I remember the interpreter for Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro (Deadly Premonition, Dark Dreams Don’t Die, The Good Life, The Missing) saying to me at dinner about a month ago. So it’s possible that I have some of the details wrong, but…
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Review – The Museum of Anything Goes
I’m not sure if I can adequately prepare you for how bizarre The Museum of Anything Goes is. Let me first take you back to 1995. While the operating system was superseded that year, the important thing to know about Windows 3.1 was that it wasn’t a platform for video games. At the time, most games ran natively on DOS.…
