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The Best Games of 2004 According to GameRankings

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

2004 was a star-studded year in gaming. The year is competitive with 1998 in terms of high-quality games. With this in mind, many great games missed the top ten listing. Games such as The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, NFL 2K5, and Doom 3 all missed the cut.  As always, we rarely consider…

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The Best Games of 2003 According to GameRankings

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

If 2002 was a hallmark year for the Nintendo GameCube, then 2003 was an amazing year for Xbox owners. Out of the ten best games (as rated by critics), 4 were Xbox releases and only 2 were PS2 titles. At this point, Xbox games had started to surpass other consoles in terms of visuals and…

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The Best Games of 2001 According to GameRankings

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

By 2001, The PlayStation 2 had begun to receive its sophomore software and its catalogue began to fill up with great games. These games included Final Fantasy X and the cultural phenomenon Grand Theft Auto III.   This was also the year where the Dreamcast was, for all intents and purposes, declared ‘dead’. Microsoft and Nintendo…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Dead or Alive 3

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The original Xbox was an amazing machine for its era. At times, the system truly felt like a generational leap over the PlayStation 2. The reason for this? Microsoft’s hardware was multiple times more powerful than Sony’s most successful machine.   The Xbox Flexed its Muscles at Launch  Halo: Combat Evolved alone was enough to…

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Microsoft to Acquire Activision/Blizzard; Game Pass is About to get Beefier

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Big News today has to do with Microsoft shocking the business world by acquiring Activision in a historic 68.7 billion dollar deal. Given the Call of Duty fanbase currently playing on the PlayStation 4/5 platform, future exclusivity of this and other franchises could deliver a massive blow to the Japanese giant. Microsoft is not…

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Buying New Home Consoles 20 Christmas Seasons Ago

Posted on December 26, 2021December 31, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

20 years ago, many home console gamers had a very merry Christmas. Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s GameCube were new consoles on the market, and the PlayStation 2 was beginning to hit its historic stride with great games like Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2 arriving on the system. If we dig deeper, we…

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Microsoft: Fable Kinect Marriage a Mistake; Regrets Closing Lionhead Studios

Posted on December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The Fable franchise, at one point, was one of Microsoft’s most important exclusive properties under its Xbox brand. In fact, the Fable reboot (currently in development by PlayGround Games) is one of the most anticipated exclusive games on the Xbox Series consoles, and one that is expected to go head to head with Sony’s premier…

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The Best Console Launch Games of All Time – Part 1

Posted on November 29, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

With Black Friday gone, and the Holiday season fast approaching (though there are no console launches this year), I have decided to list the best console launch titles of all time. After all, most gamers that want a new console (be it PS5 or XBSX) haven’t been able to nab one. Thus, the new console…

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The Top Five Best Selling Games For The Original Xbox

Posted on September 25, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Xbox was Microsoft’s freshman console; its entry point into the console industry. Launched back in November 2001, the XBOX was mainly known for its brute hardware force (and Halo). Its specs far surpassed those of the PlayStation 2, and even Nintendo’s GameCube own technical numbers. The console was also known for some of the…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Halo: Combat Evolved

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Once upon a time, the industry (home console makers) were all associated with certain mascots. Nintendo had Mario, Sega had Sonic, and for a time Sony had Crash Bandicoot (though to its credit the PlayStation Brand managed to break away from a single ‘face of the console’ franchise). Microsoft entered the home console battle with…

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