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Y2K Game: Rez

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The Most Y2K Game Ever This may very well be the most Y2K game I've ever played. Everything about it could onlyhave come from that era. I'm talking about the visuals, the sounds, the music, the art, the style, the hacking, the cyberspace, and even the genre itself. I've been playing the Dreamcast a lot lately in my quest to play as many Y2K era games as possible. In many ways, the Dreamcast is the console to best represents this brief window in time. Naturally, its library is chock full of games that radiate Y2K energy. We've got Sonic Adventure, Metropolis Street Racer, Space Channel 5, Dead or Alive 2, Slave Zero, and, my absolute favorite, Jet Set Radio. Now we have a new contender. Rez may very well even surpass Jet Set Radio as the most Y2K game ever made. Rez isn't merely a game released during the Y2K era. It feels like the cultural imagination at the turn of the millennium, when many believed technology was ushering in an...
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Y2K Game: Soldier of Fortune

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Soldier of Fortune I played this on the Sega Dreamcast. I am fully aware that this is a PC game and it's massively better to play it there, especially nowadays. Still, I picked it up at my local retro game store because I wanted another Dreamcast title I could play with the console’s mouse and keyboard peripherals. I found it to be quite the enjoyable experience, even if there are two specific frustrations with it. Bare Bones Story The story is not exactly original. You play as John Mullins and you're teamed up with Hawk. You first start off by busting some weird skin heads in an underground subway. You then discover that said skin heads are running around the globe buying nukes. So, you fly around the globe destroying nukes. Once the nukes are destroyed, you chase the skin head freaks to try to end them and the shadow organization pulling their strings once and for all. It's not going to win any writing or creativit...
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My Chat With AI Concerning Digital Games

A Conversation Concerning With an AI Sony's Termination of Physical Games I decided to have a conversation concerning Sony's announcement. On July 1st, 2026, Sony announced that they will be terminating support and production for physical video games by January of 2028. Now, I've been a PC gamer since 2013. I even mention to the AI that one of my motivations to do so is that consoles where slowly but surely morphing into underpowered PCs. I did learn a few things. For instance, it is true that the vast majority of revenue is via digital sales. Keyword: revenue. Some of this digital revenue includes DLC, microtransactions,and subscriptions. So, it's not quite a one-to-one comparison versus purchasing a single game disc. Another thing I mentioned towards the end is that some games arrived digitally but never physically. These games are also included in the figures; further distorting the comparison. It's likely that digital games are still ...
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