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Games: WWE All-Stars (Wii)

Posted on 6th Apr 11 by | comments 0

WWE’s mixture of athletics, pageantry, morality play, vaudeville and sheer spectacle, has, while creating its own niche, even in wrestling, never mind pop-culture, seen it alienate both sporting fans and fans of legitimate drama for being neither or.

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Interview: Pier Solar

Posted on 18th Mar 11 by | comments 0

As praise rolls in for the unlikeliest critical darling of the last year in gaming, Drop-d speaks to Fonzie and Zebbe, two of the heads behind Pier Solar and the Great Architects, the first newly-developed Mega Drive game to see release in over thirteen years, to discuss the Internet, part-time games development, and where exactly you can still get MegaDrive cartridges made…

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Games: Top Five of 2010

Posted on 31st Dec 10 by | comments 0

The second of three end-of-year lists goes out now, as the D casts an eye back on its fave five videogames of 2010. Our albums list goes out at 11.59 tonight. Last word, yo.

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Retro Gaming Review: Resident Evil

Posted on 9th Dec 10 by | comments 0

Resident Evil was not a wholly original game. It borrowed elements from other games, mostly PC, that had gone under the ambient horror genre. Games like The 7th Guest and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream pioneered the idea of horror as a gaming experience. The problem with these games is that they [...]

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