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Paul Verhoeven

Writer of Loose Units for Penguin. Host of ABCs Steam Punks. Host of 28 Plays Later. Unicorn enthusiast. Unicron enthusiast.

Final Fantasy VII – Remaking what it means to be nostalgic

Can you feel nostalgia for something you've never truly experienced? I never played Final Fantasy VII when it landed. I was always a PC kid, hunched over my crummy Dell, nesting in...

Control The Foundation DLC Review – Surly Joe’s

The Foundation is the first major expansion for Control, one of the greatest games of the last decade. That’s not an exaggeration, by the way. Control is a staggering...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Review (Switch) – Living My Best Life

There’s something almost poetic about the timing of the release of the new Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing: New Horizons was always going to be a game that robbed workplaces of...

Gearbox’s Danny Homan and Sam Winkler on writing Borderlands 3

Full disclosure, I really, really liked Borderlands 3. The campaign is dense, exceedingly kind and often very smart. It has moments of crudeness, sure, but it exceeds expectations on...

Remedy’s Sam Lake on creating the terrifying world of Control

Control is a frightening, murky, brilliant piece of game making. It’s ostensibly Christopher Nolan’s Psychonauts. A shadowy government agency – the Federal Bureau of Control – is under lockdown,...

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