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The questions everyone asks at the start, answered in plain language: how to tell editions apart, how to store a box properly, and what actually moves the value of a copy.

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30 years of PES: the heart of an evolution has the shape of a ball

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30 years of PES: the heart of an evolution has the shape of a ball

The ball against the concrete wall, the rebound ringing on the courtyard asphalt like the hands of a clock marking out the homework break, and then another kick, wall, backheel, and wall again. I brought the ball, I ma

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AAA: Is It Still Worth Investing in Them Today?

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Are multiplatform video games the future we want?

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Therapeutic Gaming and Video Game Therapy: Playing Video Games to Feel Better Is Now Possible

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Education in Empathy: Instructions for Playing Better

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Special on a technological meteor worth rediscovering

Beneath the world of the surface, there are wonders and hidden treasures.

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Vectrex, the Console of Bézier Curves

Certain treasures lie buried under layers of time and cardboard boxes, nestled in dusty cellars forgotten like the memory of good friends who moved to another city in the middle of our adolescence. And it is precisely in one of those cellars

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NES PAL Region Free, a Console Without Borders

The aura of legend that surrounds the queen of 8-bit consoles, at least as far as I’m concerned, has never shown any sign of fading over time. Since 1991, the year in which the NES, that is, the Nintendo Entertainment System, figuratively hung up its joypads

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PS5 Pro next-generation revolution

It was November 2020 when everything changed.

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Gig vs Mattel - Civil War

Console Wars have often been discussed, addressing the historical and cultural aspect of video games understood as a new reference medium for young people, and not only them, from the 1970s up to the modern era, dominated by stratospheric giants

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Graphic Adventures: Point, Click, and Have Fun with the Classics

The pleasure of Play with a capital P is the cornerstone on which we build our dreams as gamers, the adrenaline that made us unable to sit still when, with a two-hundred-lira coin clutched between our fingertips, we were about to

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How to Recognize a Fake Video Game!

The video game market is, in fact, a market.

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Video Games as Easy to Read as Packaging: the PEGI System

The world of video games has changed drastically over the past few decades, revolutionizing itself from the ground up.

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Alpha, beta, PAL, demo! Let's set things straight!

The popularity of the most beloved video games goes hand in hand, there’s no point hiding it, with the ability of publishers to make them unique, in a sense, even when that same title is multi-platform, meaning published not exclusively on a

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Switch 2 Horizons of Glory

Before Nintendo presented its latest console to the world in March 2017, the doubts of industry insiders and fans, loyal to the Big N forever, were many.

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Shoot'em up, these unknowns

If I had to name a genre to describe in a single word what it means to play an arcade game, I would have no doubt. The term "Shooter" says a great deal about the atmospheres of frenetic chaos one must face in order to survive and complete the mission.

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Pokemon-Game Link and Go

Imagine a line of little monsters.

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Puzzle Games, These Unknowns

We've played them all.

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