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Note: This post contains spoilers for Pragmata. Pragmata is a “dad” game, but it is part of a broader lineage. In Pragmata, the player protects and guards an NPC throughout its runtime, like many ...

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Mario Tennis Fever has the soul of a GameCube game. Its wacky, over-the-top take on tennis is at its best when you have four friends together on the couch. And for the first time since the GameCube ...

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With its architectural triumphs, rich culture, and political intrigue, Ancient Rome already seems a perfect setting for Ubisoft’s city-building strategy game Anno 117: Pax Romana. But as I discovered ...