When you think about era-defining JRPGs, there are some staples that absolutely come to mind. Era-defining means they truly ruled the year and console era in which they were released, changing the ...

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The term “country music” covers a wide spectrum of styles. From the acoustic hillbilly honky tonk of Hank Williams to the hip-hop-adjacent bro country of the early 2000s, it all fits under the big ...

Jared Carvalho is a Contributor from the United States and a longtime fan of video games, having started the hobby with a SNES when he was six and never looking back since. He often finds himself ...

So much of what makes modern RPGs great can be traced back to the earliest games that defined the genre. From TTRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to early CRPGs from the 1980s, this beloved genre has its ...

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Every once in a while, a game comes out that defines a whole genre overwhelmingly. It becomes the hit that similar games copy from and are compared with. "Dark Souls," "Street Fighter 2," "Super Mario ...

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Survival games are, broadly speaking, defined by having mechanics that demand players meet certain basic needs. Along with the requirement of keeping hunger, thirst, and other motives in check, ...

Virtually everything about Arc Raiders screams a true mastery of the extraction shooter genre, which is pretty amazing considering it comes from a studio with only a single other game under its belt.