Category: Articles
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The Summer of the Platformer
by Isaac Smith This summer, I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours here and there exploring some games I hadn’t played before. Not as many as I’d like, of course! By and large, I was playing platformers. The lofty platformer is one of my favorite genres, behind sandbox games and RPGs. There have been plenty…
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What’s the Holdup? Games We Took Too Long to Complete
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Like any passion, video games are a time commitment above all else. You sink hours of your precious time into just one, soaking up every detail and pushing through obstacles with tireless resolve, but when you play online games you can even make money playing Free Pokies. Sometimes, though,…
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What We’re Playing This Week – E3 and Back Again Edition
Terry Randolph – Persona 5 (Playstation 4), Battlefield 1 (Xbox One) I’m almost at the 50% mark of Persona 5 (at 44 hours too) but damn do I love this game. I’m finally starting to see what happens when you push too far too fast: having to face enemies about 6-7 levels over you that…
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What We’re Playing This Week – Memorial Day Edition
Terry Randolph – Persona 5 (Playstation 4), Prey (Xbox One), and Overwatch (Playstation 4) While I have been absolutely glued to Persona 5 (because it’s the kind of game that’s difficult to break away from once you start it up), my friend bought me a game they have raved about nonstop and sworn I’d absolutely…
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A little history lesson in Super Scope
The gamers who grew up with the NES remembers the good ol’ days of playing Duck Hunt just for the fun of shooting ducks, getting laughed by the dog, and sometimes, shooting that annoying dog (guilty of doing the last one. He did get on my nerves) with the NES Zapper gun. That light gun…
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TellTale’s The Walking Dead: Season 3: A New Frontier Episode 4: Thicker Than Water Review
Release Date: April 25th, 2017 Developer: TellTale Games Publisher: TellTale Games Genre: Third Person Perspective, Platformer, Action-Adventure System: Xbox One (Reviewed), Playstation 4,, PC, Mac, Android, iPhone For the first time in a long time, Walking Dead has forced me to face the consequences of every decision I’d made up until this episode. I had…
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The Thrill of Beating an Impossible Battle
What is it about an impossible battle or insane boss fight that thrills us? It’s almost masochistic in a way. We fight, we lose. We get up, stretch, grab a Coke and try again. And die. Then we die some more. We start foaming at the mouth, raving and cursing at a computer program for…
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What We’re Playing This Week – California Floods Edition
Real life comes first, especially when an emergency situation pops up however a good game after it is certainly how we like to calm our nerves like many do. Though as gamers are we more mentally prepared for emergencies? I’d hope it helps a little bit but thankfully we don’t have to deal with wizards…
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What We’re Playing This Week – Groundhog’s Day Edition
Terry Randolph – Overwatch (Playstation 4), Dishonored 2 (Xbox One), Final Fantasy XV (Playstation 4) Keeping true to playing the games I already have, I’m still keeping myself occupied with Overwatch as my main game. As it stands, Overwatch has an insane amount of depth that I feel I’ve barely caught onto, and has me…
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What We Played This Year – 2016
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Look, we’re going to avoid the cliche: We know how awful 2016 was. It’s been repeated ad nauseum on your Facebook feed on a daily basis, so don’t expect us to walk you through it again here! Rather than lament what transpired throughout the calendar year, we’re sticking to…