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2014 in Preview: The Games We’re Most Excited for in 2014
Games from 2013 are so last year! Team USG (and some of the extended family) which upcoming games set their hearts a-flutter.
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The Life of a Porting House
Eurogamer's Richard Moss delves into the wild world of Mac gaming.
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Is 2014 the Year of Virtual Reality?
Come on in, Luigi, your time is up. Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead explains why Oculus Rift is the true next-gen experience.
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2013 in Review: The Year's Worst Games and Ideas
USgamer's staff and contributors celebrate Festivus with an airing of grievances over the things that sucked the most joy from their lives in 2013.
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2013 In Review: The Indies We Loved
Mike and Cass take a look at some of their favorite indie games released last year.
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Final Fantasy XIV Guide: Surviving the Crystal Tower
The 24-player Labyrinth of the Ancients is one of the most popular new dungeons in FFXIV's 2.1 patch. Here's how to make it through safely.
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Rediscovering Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Pete dodges flying toilets and exploding barrels as he revisits Valve's underappreciated multiplayer spinoff to Half-Life 2.
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2013 in Review: The Year SimCity Died
Hopes were high for this year's SimCity reboot, but things didn't quite go according to plan. What went wrong -- and can the once-great brand ever recover?
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2013 in Review: Final Fantasy XIV: The Game of the Year No-One's Talking About
What was your own personal game of the year? Pete makes the case for Square Enix's spectacular rebooted MMORPG, and the best Final Fantasy for years.
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2013 in Review: USgamer's Desert Island Games
The cast and crew do some soul-searching to pick the single game they'd want to bring along if ever they became stranded on a desert island (one with power outlets).
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What $100 Can Do For The Novice Dota 2 Trader
It can buy you a whole lot less scruples. Cassandra Khaw takes the plunge and does a week in the Dota 2 trading scene.
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How Hearthstone is Making Me Play My First Blue Deck
Or, 'Why Mage Decks Are So Incredibly Annoying'
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My Dad is a Real Life Version of GTA V's Michael De Santa
Cassandra muses the similarities and disparities between Michael de Santa and her ex-gang member father.
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What's Nintendo's Next Move?
With Wii U on the ropes mere months after its debut and no relief in sight, we can't help but wonder how Nintendo will handle the console's troubled future.
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How John Madden Changed Sports Games Forever
25 years ago, America's most boisterous sportcaster demanded greater realism in games.
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2013 in Review: Narrative and Consequence in The Stanley Parable
Stanley glanced over the USgamer front page, looking for something to while away a few minutes before going back to work. It wasn't long before something oddly familiar caught his eye.
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2013 in Review: In The Last of Us, No Death is Meaningless
Naughty Dog's The Last of Us is that rare thing in video games: an experience that gets us to think about the reasons behind all the inevitable violence.
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2013 in Review: Luigi's Mansion and the Best of Two Worlds
The 3DS-based sequel to Luigi's Mansion shone brightly in both single- and multiplayer -- despite the two modes being markedly different from one another. Pete looks back on one of the year's best 3DS games.
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2014 in Preview: Waiting for Watch Dogs' Multiplayer
Mike prefers single-player games, but is looking forward to Watch Dogs' multiplayer modes.
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2013 in Review: Why I'll Never Finish Papers, Please
Universally praised for its disquieting undertones, Papers, Please is especially uncomfortable when you've been on the other side.
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NES and Famicom: Recollections on the 30th Anniversary
We asked you, ourselves, and folks in the industry for their thoughts on a system that helped define video gaming.
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The Most Important Games on Sega's SG-1000
The games that helped Sega kick off its 20-year career as a console powerhouse.
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1983: The Summer That Changed the World
30 years ago Nintendo, Sega, and Microsoft entered the Japanese console race. In doing so, they reshaped the future of games.
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2013 in Review: Gone Home: Pioneering Relationships in Video Games
Gone Home does a lot of things. Most of all, it reminds us that relationships in video games need not just be about the sex.
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2013 in Review: The Year's Best Games
Team USgamer and BFFs ponder the past twelve months and choose their favorite games of the year - and explain exactly why they think they represent the best of 2013.
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2013 in Review: The Year We All Became Pokemon Masters
It may not seem like it, but Pokemon X and Y marks a turning point for the series.
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2013 in Review: With Super Mario 3D, We Demand of Nintendo, "Let My Princess Go"
Will Princess Peach and Rosalina be allowed to journey with Mario on a more permanent basis, or are they doomed to return to passive roles?
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2013 in Review: The Tragic Fatalism of BioShock Infinite
One of 2013's most spectacular games was also one of its most disappointing for its failure to heed its predecessor's pivotal philosophy.
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2013 In Review: The Legend of Zelda Told Me to Get Lost
How A Link Between World's focus on player freedom created the best installment in years.
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What are the Best Starbound Mods?
Starbound might be the new kid on the sand-block but that hasn't stopped modders from going wild.
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2013 in Review: The State of Narrative in Games
Pete Davison and Jeremy Parish look back at the ways this year's games succeeded and failed at telling great stories.
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2013 In Review: Defiance is the Best Shooter MMO with a TV Show Tie-In This Year
Even completely average can still be a ton of fun. Mike's thoughts on Defiance and games that aren't amazing.
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2013 in Review: The State of Microtransactions and Free-to-Play
In the last couple of years, we've seen huge growth in free-to-play and the use of microtransactions. Pete, Jaz and Mike contemplate where the divisive business models stand at the end of 2013.
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2013 In Review: Dead Space 3 and the Problem With Big-Budget Horror Sequels
Dead Space 3 wasn't a horror game, but that's not entirely its fault. Why AAA sequels and horror don't mix.
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2013 in Review: Pikmin 3 Puts a Friendly Face on Video Game Violence
Nintendo's strategy adventure was as brutal and violent as any video game in 2013. So why doesn't it seem as off-putting?
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JPgamer: Victory, After a Hundred Hours
Some eight months after its original release -- and 112 hours of gameplay later -- Gamindustri is safe once again. Pete shares some final thoughts on Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory.
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2013 in Review: Why Being the Game No One Actually Wins is So Good For Dota 2
By virtue of being impossible to truly master, Valve's Dota 2 is also impossible to put down.
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How the Amnesia Sequel's Sausage was Made
Eurogamer's Jeffrey Matulef chats with Dan Pinchbeck, scribe of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
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2013 in Review: The State of Role-Playing Games
How has the last year treated role-playing games? Jeremy and Pete take a look back on a year of swords, spiky hair and too many zippers.
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Overachiever for a Day
From the Eurogamer archives: John Teti attempts to earn 10,000 Gamerscore in 24 hours.
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Tomb Raider: My Deepest Condolences For The Loss of Your Series
2013 In Review: Tomb Raider is already dead, but there's still enjoyment to be found in what Crystal Dynamics has put in its place.
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Ludum Dare Explores the Theme "You Only Get One"
We've just seen the back of Ludum Dare 28, in which solo developers and developer teams alike from all over the world came together to explore a common theme and unleash their creativity under strict time constraints. Here's some of the most interesting results.
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Beyonce's Onto Something, You Know
Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell argues her new album-out-of-the-blue is a cool idea that would work brilliantly for games.
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2013 in Review: Tomb Raider Makes Us Ask, Do We Have to Kill a Classic in Order to Save It?
Square Enix updated Lara Croft for the modern age of games, but the end result barely resembles Tomb Raider as we knew it.