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Undisputed Street Fighter - Steve Hendershot


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Undisputed Street Fighter - Steve Hendershot, 2017 303 pages

In celebration of Street Fighter's 30th anniversary, this large-format hardback 'coffee-table' book covers history, characters, and releases in fairly thorough fashion.

Certainly my favourite portions of this book are the history sect...

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Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide Volume 1 - Mark Bussler


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Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide Volume 1 - Mark Bussler, 2017

230 pages

A brief coverage of multiple video game consoles, some photos (often consoles or game boxes 'in their element' such as in a field, on the beach, next to a waterfall... very evocative!), game collecting guides for novi...

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Doki Doki Literature Club (pc)


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  • Release Date: September 2017
  • Time to complete: ~3 hrs

Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC for short) is an exploration in visual novel form. A disturbing exploration - the warnings upon game start aren't kidding. If you can't handle some pretty heavy psychological (and physical) themes, steer cl...

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Game Over - David Sheff


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Game Over - David Sheff, 1993

434 pages

By now, the story of the rise and... plateau... of Nintendo has been well-trod, with numerous web, magazine, and podcast articles covering various aspects. All inevitably draw upon the research covered in 'Game Over', one of the earliest and most in-depth...

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Collar x Malice (psvita)


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Released: July 2017 Time to complete: ~35 hrs

Another otome (i.e. targetted at women) visual novel, in this one the female protagonist, a police officer, is assaulted and 'collared' by an unknown assailant and forced to investigate a series of terrorist attacks. The scenario is pretty interesting,...

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