Category: Features
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Are NFT And Blockchain Games The Future Of The Industry?
Recently, the words NFT and Blockchain games have been thrown around a lot when it comes to the supposed next step in video game evolution. The CEO of EA, Andrew Wilson, declared during the company’s earnings call this week that NFT and Blockchain games will be the future of the video game industry. Additionally, earlier…
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Teamfight Tactics: Set 6 is A Set to Remember
I’ve been a fan of Teamfight Tactics, by Riot Games, since the beginning. I’ve seen through the ages, from Set 1: Yasuo knocking up the entire enemy team to Set 5: Heimerdinger destroying my entire comp. And with that, I’ve seen all of the unique gimmicks for each of the sets, as well as how…
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Revisiting My First Horror Game: Alan Wake
As I was working on our recent horror games list to celebrate October, I chose to start the list with Alan Wake. I have not played it in over a decade but it lives firmly in gaming memories. It was the first, and for a while, the last horror game I played until I became obsessed with horror in…
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Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack: Is it Worth the Extra Money?
Nostalgia can be a great thing. We look back on games with a deep fondness, and think “they don’t make them like they used to”. However, we forget is that, sometimes, those games were good when they released, but are they still good now? The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack aims to answer that question,…
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All The Video Games You Hate That We Can’t Get Enough Of
Video games are a dime a dozen these days. From first-person shooters to open-world extravaganzas there is plenty of adventuring, puzzle-solving and fishing to be had. It stands to reason then that there are bound to be games that people unequivocally love. From Ghost of Tsushima to Lake, each and every one of us has…
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All The Games You Love That We’ve Never Played
Every now and then a new game comes along that you have simply no interest in. It might be a game in a genre that you don’t like, or it could be a new direction for an old series that you just don’t gel with. Of course, it might just be something that you really…
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The Game Crater’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of October
Each month, The Game Crater staff gather in our very real and very spooky ritual circle to chant and mutter creepy words. Those words tend to be “Halloween”, “When is Cyberpunk going to be fixed“, “More people should listen to our podcast” and “Here are our most anticipated games of October”. Sure, it’s a little…
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Balancing Characters In Apex Legends Is Harder Than You Think
I have recently played and enjoyed many hero shooters such as Apex Legends, Overwatch and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. The thing that keeps me addicted is their amazingly well-developed and enjoyable characters. However, fans of Apex Legends, in particular, may remember some of their favourite characters first release as a colossal disappointment and wonder why…
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Die Young: Everybody Take Notes
A lot of modern horror games are starting to feel very similar. Gone are the days of the cult horror classics like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Fortunately, there are still some old school games that continue the success of the horror cult classics, and I recently came across a game that is breaking the…
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The Golden Era of Cheats
Cheat Codes or ‘Cheats’, as they were almost universally known, were nifty little things you could input into a game. This was usually in the form of button combinations, amongst other things. They were often sought out by those people familiar with a game who wanted to add a little bit extra to add to their experience.…
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Is the Internet Ruining Videogames?
My first experience with video games was way before the internet was even a thing, Playing on my older brother’s Commodore 64. This old machine ran tapes to play games. Not CD’s or blu-rays or even floppy disks, but actual tapes. It took practically years for a game to load, and they were… well, not…
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Are New IPs Becoming A Risk For Developers?
It’s fair to assume that new IPs can be a big risk for major developers. But does this mean that modern games are becoming stale? Well, it’s not uncommon to see a lot of sequels, remakes and straight-up re-releases at the moment and not a whole load of new ideas. You just need to look…