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06

Jul

By Seasoned Gaming

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XBOX Announces Significant Changes to Staff and Studios

When new XBOX CEO, Asha Sharma, sent a long memo to the entire XBOX team a few weeks ago, I knew it meant some major changes were on the way. We initially discussed this during Bitcast 387, where we estimated between 10-20% of staff being affected in one way or…

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23

Mar

By Steve Esposito

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Marathon’s Mystery Box Narrative

What makes a good story? Some will say great world building, some properly motivated characters, and some would say a solid enemy. Those are all great elements, and since I started playing Marathon I pondered this more and more. As someone who is a sucker for a good story, especially…

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14

Mar

By Ains

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Marathon is the Game I Didn’t Know I Needed

Bungie and I go back a long way. While I never spent any quality time with the original Marathon titles, in 2000 I had my pre-order ready to go for the Gamecube with no notion of ever wanting this new "Xbox" from Microsoft. Until, that is, I played Halo C.E.…

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09

Jan

By Ains

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Celebrating 10 Years of Independent Gaming Journalism

I’ve now sat down several different times to express my thoughts on running a small, independent gaming outlet for the past decade. Each time I’ve gotten a few sentences in and walked away. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say. Rather, it’s that I feel such a strange…

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24

Dec

By Seasoned Gaming

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Seasoned Gaming Honors 2025

2025 was an incredible year for game releases so with that in mind, we're proud to celebrate with our Seasoned Gaming Honors for the year. As we've done the past couple of years, all of the SG staff came together along with the Bitcast panel to make their selections across…

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21

Nov

By Stacy

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Second Chances : Your Backlog is not a Burden

Video version if preferred https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mTgRrq_iGw I'm standing in line at Gamers, my local game store, in 2002. The fluorescent lights are humming overhead. There's that distinct smell of new plastic cases and carpet that every game store seemed to have back then. I've got Morrowind in my hands and I'm…

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28

Oct

By Steve Esposito

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Xbox’s Future is Ubiquitous

In a recent interview with Mashable’s Tech Editor, Timothy Beck Werth, Sarah Bond answered a bunch of questions relating to the release of the ASUS Xbox ROG Ally and Ally X handheld gaming PCs, a nomenclature that is too long for it’s own good. In this, two main talking points…

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24

Oct

By Steve Esposito

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Review : Glorious Model O3 and D3 Mice

There comes a certain time where technology hits the ceiling. You improve so much that there really isn’t much more you could do which is a blessing and a curse. But when your back is against the wall, and you take a step back to see what can be improved,…

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15

Oct

By Steve Esposito

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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X Hands-On Experience

On a rainy Wednesday morning, I headed out into the wet streets of NYC. Donning a PlayStation t-shirt and excitement, I headed to a nondescript building to get a special look at the upcoming ASUS ROG Xbox Ally devices. After manhandling both devices for several hours and speaking to the…

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27

Aug

By Ains

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Hands-On Preview : The Outer Worlds 2

While it may not feel like it, it's been nearly six years since Obsidian Entertainment released The Outer Worlds. I enjoyed the original immensely though, like others, I had wished the scope was a little more vast and the combat was more polished. Given Obsidian later confirming that entire locations…

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20

Aug

By Stacy

Articles, Good in Gaming

Passion Over Metrics : The Expedition 33 Case for Creative Freedom

A French studio you'd never heard of twelve months ago just proved that everything the industry believes about game development is fundamentally broken. Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 3.3 million copies in just 33 days. Not with a thousand-person team. Not with a $300 million budget and a…

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23

Jul

By Alejandro Segovia

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How Death Stranding 2 Pieced Me Back Together

“Should we have connected?” That was the question legendary creator Hideo Kojima posed in the early marketing of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. On the surface, it felt like a thematic hook—a clever rhetorical tagline that questioned the actions of its forebear. But close to one month later, after…

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03

Jul

By Ains

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Xbox’s Latest Layoffs : The Full Summary

While rumors began circulating of impending layoffs at Microsoft last week, which we saw the culmination of yesterday, I wanted to wait until we knew the exact details and full breadth before typing it up. As tends to happen, speculation has run rampant and the details are often lost or…

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30

May

By Steve Esposito

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Things You Should Do Before Dune Awakening Releases

We are on the cusp of Dune: Awakening releasing soon and as the guy who receives Dune memes from everyone simultaneously, I figured that I would help you, the reader, with sorting yourself out when it comes to jumping into this wonderful franchise and familiarize yourself with the Dune universe…

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23

May

By Ray

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Interview : The Sound of World of Horror

When I first saw the trailer for World of Horror, I knew, without a doubt, it was a game for me. I am an unapologetic Junji Ito fanboy who pre-orders every book, and I gravitate towards retro-inspired games. It took a while to finally get around to playing World of…

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