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True to Bungie's promise, the end-game map makes the game click. It's taken us a few weeks, but my buddies and I finally earned our way into Marathon 's end-game raid map, the Cryo Archive. Our first forays—unspoiled by guides or streamers—have been pitiful. On attempt one, we somehow locked…

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30-30.club - Baseball Video Games

A blog and wiki for baseball video games from around the globe. Blog posts cover both new and old games, with a deep interest in making foreign titles accessible and preserving information on forgotten, older titles.

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Aftermath

Free + Paid

A worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them.

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A Green Mushroom

A Green Mushroom started out as a place for me to write games but has transformed into more with time. Over the years, it has become my little corner of the internet to jot down and share anything that interests me.

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All The Bees

My name is Joni and I've worked on games such as Duck Detective. This is a place for me to share my thoughts and experiences which hopefully might be useful to others.

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Arcade Heroes

A blog established in 2006 that is dedicated to the coin-operated/pay-to-play video game & pinball industry. New game announcements, new location announcements, interest articles on the industry, etc. Written from the human point of view (no AI) of both players and arcade operators.

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You Found a Secret Area!

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Writing about the mostly forgotten games and events in the world of video games and pop culture.

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Autumn Wright's Blog

Autumn Wright is blogging from the end of the world. Follow them for criticism on videogames, animation, manga, and whatever other art and entertainment they find moving, plus the occasional jaunt through nature, theory, and the personal.

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BB's Backlog Challenge

Clearing my games backlog by playing a random title for one hour before reviewing it. I dearly wish I had given it a better name.

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The Ebonheim Chronicle

Game Development Blog primarily containing technical essays of game systems and techniques as well as progress updates for a solo-built game using a custom C++ engine

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Laura Michet's Blog

I've worked in the games industry for over 15 years and have posts about game development and narrative design stretching back to 2013. My blog is a general-purpose blog, but the RSS feed provided here contains all the games-specific posts only. These include postmortems, recommendations, posts about development best practices, and more.

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Nice Gear Games Blog

The blog of Nice Gear Games, two hobbyists in Japan who make and cover indie games!

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Bullet Points Monthly

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Bullet Points Monthly features long-form articles and podcasts that look to place games in a wider cultural context, examining their relationship to our greater world much in the same manner as other forms of art and entertainment.

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ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine

The world's biggest, longest-running, and most anarchic zine about visual novels, interactive fiction, and narrative games.

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Citystate - Exploring Computer Games

Hello. My name is Robin, and this is my personal blog about computer games. Here you can find essays about old games I've played, industry commentary, a few freeware games I've made for fun, and Maraoke* parody song lyrics written by me. ( * https://maraoke.com/#what )

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Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection is an artzine for those who believe games can be poetry and that they carry meaning. That a procedurally generated cave can hold the weight of myth. That a glitch can be a ghost. That getting lost is sometimes not only the point, but the adventure.

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crowbar.

Words dedicated to indies breaking industry norms, forcing new doors open, and creating the future of games without waiting for permission.

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Tain's Game Log

My thoughts on gaming and games I'm playing, old and new, as I play them. I lean toward action games and am particularly interested in single-credit clearing arcade games. Posts sometimes include videos of my 1CCs.

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Deemon Cove

Deemon's the name and I don't know what's the game. Welcome to this lil' cove, a space to mostly write and critique anything videogame related from a more personal place, or at least one that attempts to meet each work eye-to-eye, with the occasional ramblings about the medium at large to boot.

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DHIPPO.NET

A blog about game dev experiments, DOOM maps, and showcases of cool games by others.

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Discard Pile

Thoughts on gaming, gamedev, and the internet by Kyle Labriola.

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