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8 Great Film "Easter Eggs"

By Tyler Kane at 10:30 AM on March 31, 2013

From 28 Days Later's "radical" alternate ending to Yoda break dancing, here are eight movie extras worth hunting for. read more

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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Review (Multi-Platform)

By Mitch Krpata at 9:00 AM on February 7, 2012

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a game about time-travel. In it you voyage to the past to undo your mistakes. The symbolism isn’t lost on those who were disappointed by the previous game. For every complaint the masses made about Final Fantasy XIII—the level design was too linear, the mission objectives were too straightforward, Vanille was too annoying—XIII-2 has an answer. In the end, the changes mean that XIII-2 fails for all new reasons. If Square Enix could travel back in time to address the flaws of their latest game, maybe they could start by not paying such close attention to... read more

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The Final Fantasy VII Letters, Part 4

By Kirk Hamilton and Leigh Alexander at 12:40 PM on March 24, 2011

Part four in our ongoing retrospective letter series. An index of all letters can be found here.... read more

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The Final Fantasy VII Letters, Part 3

By Kirk Hamilton and Leigh Alexander at 12:25 PM on March 22, 2011

Part three in our ongoing retrospective letter series. An index of all letters can be found here.... read more

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The Final Fantasy VII Letters, Part 2

By Kirk Hamilton and Leigh Alexander at 11:23 AM on March 17, 2011

Part two in our ongoing retrospective letter series. An index of all letters can be found here.... read more

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The Final Fantasy VII Letters, Part 1

By Kirk Hamilton and Leigh Alexander at 12:20 PM on March 15, 2011

Editor's Note: Even among the most rarefied videogames of the last twenty years, Square Enix's 1997 masterpiece Final Fantasy VII stands apart. Widely held to be one of the greatest JRPGs of all time, the lovely and melodramatic saga of Cloud, Tifa, Aeris and Sephiroth has inspired more accolades, retrospectives, musical remixes, remake rumors and frothing fan fiction than perhaps any game ever made.... read more

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Seven of Our Favorite Videogame Scores

By Bo Moore at 9:41 AM on March 11, 2011

Last month, we reported that Clint Mansell, the composer behind dark musical masterpieces Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan would be composing the score to Mass Effect 3, the upcoming action-RPG sci-fi epic from BioWare. This got us thinking about some of our other favorite musical videogame compositions and, to be honest, led to some extended Final Fantasy music listening. Here are seven of the best videogame scores out there.... read more

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Nine Ridiculously Oversized Videogame Weapons

By Bo Moore at 8:38 AM on February 11, 2011

There can't be many things more fun for videogame designers than dreaming up weapons. In the real world, building a 500-lb. shoulder-harnessed rocket launcher is fairly impractical, but... read more

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Our Nine Favorite Videogame Couples

By Bo Moore at 7:00 AM on January 28, 2011

Relationships are a given part of almost every story, and videogames are no exception. Today we celebrate nine of our favorite videogame couples, and as an added bonus, the third wheels left in the wake of happiness. read more

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