Matthew Szlapka

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Date registered: 9 November, 2010

Latest posts

  1. The 5 Most Historically-Inaccurate Video Games — 6 May, 2013
  2. 7 Genre Parody Games We Need to See — 30 April, 2013
  3. “Truly Vintage Gaming: Four Indie Devs Who Can Do No Wrong” — 12 April, 2013
  4. The Age of Easymode: Games and their Difficulty — 21 March, 2013
  5. The Most Blatant Xenomorph Rip-offs in Videogames — 5 March, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Skyrim, It’s Actually Pretty Boring….NOT! – A Friendly Rebuttal — 4 comments
  2. The (Abridged) History of Indie Gaming — 1 comment
  3. 5 Obscure Game Companies That Deserve Attention — 1 comment
  4. A Message from A Special Place. — 1 comment
  5. The Art of Game Shoppin’ (Part 2 of 3: A Child’s Involvement…or, ‘how Mikey Stopped Worrying and Made up His Mind.’) — 1 comment

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May 06

The 5 Most Historically-Inaccurate Video Games

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Sieg Exterminate! Sieg Exterminate!

History keeps changing all the time. We learn that things we took for granted like great libraries and technologies we lost long ago  due to fire and war, interpreting the dark times differently with new information. Literature and video games like to use history as a narrative tool, changing small parts of our history to …

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Apr 30

7 Genre Parody Games We Need to See

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Don’t worry JRPGs aren’t on this list. I think we’ve had quite enough of that genre’s attempts at humor…cough cough…HyperDimension Neptunia…cough cough

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Apr 12

“Truly Vintage Gaming: Four Indie Devs Who Can Do No Wrong”

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Excuse me, I have to clean my soul, the deep tresses of my inner workings. My shield from the non-vintage. There we go.

I was into the Independent Gaming circle well before it was cool. After all, what was I going to play? I’d seen Modern Warfare back in the nineties with the rest of the good parts of the genre, and hey Dead Rising? Zombies Ate My Neighbors called. It wants its style back. It evokes the …

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Mar 21

The Age of Easymode: Games and their Difficulty

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The one everyone knows. And of course, the easy mode is Luigi. Can't even play as the guy until you beat the game once.

I’m an adult who hails from the late eighties with the NES as my standard system, so I could casually call myself some kind of fanatic for a challenge. For all the young kids who actually have an interest in gaming of the old days, I congratulate your curiosity and give you a warning; the games of …

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Mar 05

The Most Blatant Xenomorph Rip-offs in Videogames

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My, how the most deadly extraterrestrial to catch the silver screen has had such an illustrious career debuting and inspiring others to create deadly psychopathic monsters from beyond the stars. The acid-bleeders are got a whole new game for themselves released by Sega and Gearbox last month, so it’s fair to say that more humans …

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Feb 20

Animaniacs Was Right: Stories and Cute Animation

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Meta-cartoons at their best. Ignore the mice: they never did clean up that water tower. I eagerly await those death threats.

For one of the most influential cartoons of the late nineties, Animaniacs knew many things about the current trends of animation and what would become a staple of not only the visual media, but videogames as well. One of those trends was a change in our conventional medium and how stories were presented; Like Batman: The …

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Feb 06

The Most Personable Stealth Assassins

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I'd pay money for a game called "Clerical Assassin". Knives and work attire? Sold.

Just cause my knife is in your side doesn’t mean we can’t act like civilized human beings.

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Jan 24

The Best Uses for Snow in Videogames

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Come closer. Winter's guardian has much to share.

Matthews pines for snow in the real world by reflecting on it in the virtual one.

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Jan 08

Iron-Clad Mayhem: The Most Hot-Blooded Games About Giant Robots

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Yeah, this actually exists in Japan. Yeah, pretty much a nation of incredible nerds.

Okay, is there anything more awesome than a Giant Robot? I believe most of those with their hands down are ignorant or simply too busy whining on Tumblr about their feels. Robots have always been cool because they are mechanical and can do things we can’t…but when we control them and kick all kinds of …

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Dec 18

Review of Shadow of the Game

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the IRS, Weed, a Ghostbuster and the Village People? Just another Tuesday.

Shadow of the Game is a very hard thing to describe simply, because it is anything but simple. Sure, the creation and the context of the storyline appears crude on paper and continues that trend throughout the entirety of this adventure game, but Derail Games has created a commentary about gaming and its effect on …

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