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Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon

Posted by on Mar 31, 2013 in Reviews | 0 comments

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon does not feel like a game you play; it feels like a game you complete. There is no challenge, there is no true engagement, and there is no fun involved. It's just a chore to be finished and crossed off. It is the very definition of a 5/10 game: it is playable, it does not have any glaring flaws, but it also is not in the slightest bit engaging or entertaining.

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Top 10 Games Developed By Firaxis

Posted by on Jan 8, 2013 in Lists | 0 comments

This week in his series on gaming companies, DDJ looks at Sid Meier's second enterprise, Firaxis.

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Top 10 Games Developed By MicroProse

Posted by on Jan 1, 2013 in Lists | 0 comments

This week in his series on gaming companies, DDJ looks at the first company to be associated with Sid Meier, MicroProse.

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Top 10 Games Developed By Blizzard

Posted by on Dec 25, 2012 in Lists | 0 comments

This week, DDJ looks at the developer responsible for the other half of the world's best-known real-time strategy games, Blizzard.

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Journey

Posted by on Dec 23, 2012 in Reviews | 0 comments

How has a site dedicated to artistic and psychological games managed to go nine months without reviewing Journey? DDJ remedies that today, with what he describes as the most beautifully artistic game of all time.

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