Michael Goroff
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These Super Mario Maker Level Designers Have Elevated Trolling Into an Artform
They’ve developed their own jargon and written 80-page guides, all to make you suffer in hilarious ways.
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Doom Eternal review
Demons are Forever.
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps review
Ori and the Will of the Wisps does everything that a good sequel is supposed to do. But in an era that’s rich with “emotional platformers,” it doesn’t do anything to make itself stand out.
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One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows review
If not for its uninspired design and lack of effort in the storytelling, One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows might have actually been a good game.
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Ten Years Later, Bad Company 2 Is Still the Best of All of Us
There will never be another game like Battlfield: Bad Company 2 ever again.
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On Killing Hitler
How series like Wolfenstein, Zombie Army, and Sniper Elite handle the revenge fantasy of bringing Hitler to justice.
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Outriders Is a “Next-Gen Experience,” But What Does That Even Mean Anymore?
Going hands-on with one of the first games to come to PS5 and Xbox Series X.
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Every Video Game Release Date in 2020 and Beyond
EGM’s exhaustive release date list, updated every Tuesday.
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Journey to the Savage Planet review
Call of the wild.
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End of an Era: Why I’m Quitting Battlefield V
After 10 years, the series I love most has finally left me behind.
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EGM’s Best of 2019: #2 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice might be the most zen game FromSoftware has released, and that’s not because it features motifs of meditation and Buddhism and the other various nods towards spirituality and religiosity that comes with its immaculately realized Sengoku period Japanese setting. It’s zen because it overtly recognizes death, beginning with its title. When…
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EGM’s Best of 2019: Michael Goroff’s Picks
When I first started at EGM, I was excited to make my Game of the Year list. I was an intrepid critic, eager to quantify the unquantifiable and rank the unrankable, extracting and sculpting just a tiny bit of order from all the chaos. Why appreciate things on a holistic level when we can rate…
