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| - Game-Revolution is a popular online gaming magazine created in 1996. Based in Berkley, California, the often-updated website has been attributed by multiple gaming resources for it's amusing reviews and talented writing team. Cameo writing appearances by Brian Clevinger of 8-Bit Theatre and Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats, both popular video game webcomics. Usual updates for the site are common for gaming websites; reviews, previews, a gaming download area, gaming 'cheats' page, and a merchandise store. But one of their most reknow features is their style of reviews, often blatantly insulting the game and developers of the game itself. Game-Revolution also has a Moron Mailbag, a way of showing their personal responses to the numerous hate-mail they receive. Game-Revolution, through their roughly two-page reviews come to a summary in the American A-F Grading system. To their credit, Game-Revolution claims rightly that they have never given an "A+", and their "A" is awarded to very few, very select games. Game-Revolution, when faced with games they consider to be terrible, often chooses to make the actual reading of the review humorous. When reviewing Survivor: The Interactive Game, multiple drop-down boxes that serve no logical purpose are added to the review, often for humorous effect. To this day, the writers for Game-Revolution insist that The Crow: City of Angels is the worst game they have ever seen. More recently, their Features pages have included multiple amusing articles satirizing Jack Thompson, E³, the hype surrounding the next-generation consoles, and the heavily debated Video game controversy. Game-Revolution has a popular forum known as Gamepost, as well as a live chat room for general gaming discussion (or just about anything else).
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