H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, Orson Scott Card, E.E. Smith. This small sampling of influential authors' work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and fantasy has laid the bedrock for some of the best videogames in …
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Welcome to IGN's weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we'll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements or whatever else we can think of that in some way relates to gaming and its history. And just because …
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The producers of the Doom movie are committed to making it as true to the spirit of the game as possible… and that means a lot of input from the game's creators. Enter id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead, who had a lot of input into the project. During the Doom …
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You love the games. You love the films. And IGN FilmForce is the place for you to get your games-to-film fix! We've got all the latest news on every videogame currently in development in Hollywood. If you've been wondering about the status of the movie based on your favorite game… …
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If you've played Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, then you've played with the touch of Square Enix super star Tetsuya Nomura. A character designer and, more recently, director, Nomura has become possibly the most well known name at the company since the days of Final Fantasy father Hironobu Sakaguchi. Nomura, …
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With a title as anticipated as Nintendo's Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for GameCube, we knew we had to give readers more than just an in-depth text review. Sometimes reading about what a game is like is simply not enough. With that in mind we've crafted this highly detailed, 10-minute video …
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Pikmin is a whole new breed of gameplay from Nintendo, and is also one of the first new franchises to come out of the company's internal development studio EAD in a long while. The quirky, life-under-the-microscope title delivers a unique experience like few before it with a blend of real-time …
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All Japanese gaming consoles share one thing in common: a huge library of Japan-only titles that never made it to the US market. The N64 is a marked exception. Unlike the Saturn, Dreamcast, PlayStation or Super NES, the Japanese Nintendo 64 received not only far fewer games, but also far …
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