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Strife Was the Doom Engine’s Forgotten Masterpiece
Release Date: May 1996 Developer: Rogue Entertainment Get It On: GOG The Game That Missed the Party Imagine it is 1996. The gaming world is vibrating with the hype of…
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Dark Earth is the Coolest Post-Apocalypse You Forgot
Release Date: September 1997 Developer: Kalisto Entertainment A World Where the Sun Went on Vacation Before everything became a standardized open-world shooter, developers were taking massive swings at world-building. One…
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Tanks, Thrusters, and Tin-Foil Hats: Why Battlezone 98 Redux is the Greatest Cold War You Never Knew You Were Fighting
Release Date: March 11, 1998 Developer: Activision (Original), Big Boat Interactive (Redux) Get It On: GOG The Cold War Just Got a Lot Colder Imagine for a second that the…
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Virtual Bread and Cosmic Horrors: Ultima VII is Still One of the Best RPGs Ever Made
Release Date: April 16, 1992 (The Black Gate) / March 25, 1993 (Serpent Isle) Developer Name: Origin Systems Get It On: GOG The RPG That Ruined Every Other RPG If…
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Staffs, Swords, and Shadows: Nightdive’s Heretic + Hexen Re-Release is Pure Magic
The Resurrection of the Dark Fantasy Kings For years, fans of the Boomer Shooter genre have been whispering into the void, begging for the same treatment given to DOOM and…
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Slapping Imps and Hoarding Gold: Why Dungeon Keeper Still Rules the Underworld
Release Date: June 26, 1997 Developer: Bullfrog Productions Get It On: GOG It Is Good To Be Bad Let’s travel back to 1997 for a second. While every other game…
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Wings, Steel, and Scaly Besties: Why Drakan: Order of the Flame is the Ultimate Power Trip
Release Date: July 29, 1999 Developer: Surreal Software The RPG That Gave Us Real Wings Back in 1999, the gaming landscape was undergoing a massive shift. We were moving away…
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Dungeons, Dragons, and Dual-Wielding: Why Darkstone Still Slays
Release Date: July 31, 1999 Developer: Delphine Software Get It On: GOG The 3D Contender That Almost Toppled Diablo In the late 90s, the Action RPG world was dominated by…
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Magic, Machiavelli, and Mayhem: Revisiting Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
Release Date: August 13, 2003 Developer: Reflexive Entertainment Get It On: GOG When History Takes a Wild Left Turn If you’ve ever sat in a history class and thought, "This…
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Beyond the Shadow of Diablo: Why Nox Still Rules
Release Date: January 31, 2000 Developer: Westwood Studios Get It On: GOG Back in the year 2000, if you weren't clicking your mouse into oblivion playing Diablo II, you were…