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Cody Gales

Gaming writer and tech enthusiast covering news, reviews, and hardware for TechyGamers.

The closest analogy to playing Super Mario 64 for the first time in 1996 is probably the moment in The Wizard of Oz …

2 Feb 2026 Read →

Raccoon City in 1998 was the first time a mainstream game felt genuinely dangerous. Not difficult: dangerous. The police …

26 Jan 2026 Read →

Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot launched in the same year on the same hardware and were immediately, lazily …

19 Jan 2026 Read →

Before GoldenEye 007, nobody thought console first-person shooters worked. Doom and Quake were PC games. The idea that …

12 Jan 2026 Read →

Mass Effect made a promise. Your choices will carry forward, Commander. The galaxy you build across this game will …

5 Jan 2026 Read →

Ico sold fewer than 150,000 copies in its initial Japanese release. Sony of America briefly considered not releasing it …

29 Dec 2025 Read →

In 1994, the console wars were being fought with hardware specifications, and Sega’s 32X was attempting to make …

22 Dec 2025 Read →

Racing games generally want you to win cleanly. Fast lap times, smooth cornering, optimal racing lines. Burnout 3: …

15 Dec 2025 Read →

Insomniac Games had Spyro the Dragon as their identity. Three games in, the series had established them as the …

8 Dec 2025 Read →

Gears of War made everything heavy. The characters are enormous men in armour who move like tanks and communicate …

1 Dec 2025 Read →