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The PlayStation shelf.

PS3 heavy hitters, hidden gems and forgotten favorites, and the PS4 games I own and still want to play.

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    Game Reviews4 min read

    The PS3 Heavy Hitters I Still Haven't Played

    The big, famous PlayStation 3 games sitting on my to-play list, from The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption to Metal Gear Solid 4 and Demon's Souls, and where each one is easiest to play now.

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    Game Reviews6 min read

    PS3 Hidden Gems: The Games That Deserved a Bigger Crowd

    Fourteen quieter PlayStation 3 games from my list, averaging 81 on review scores, from Vanquish and Valkyria Chronicles to Folklore, Tokyo Jungle and Puppeteer, with who made them, why they got missed and where you can still play them.

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    Game Reviews6 min read

    Forgotten by Time, Still Good: PS3 Games That Fell Out of the Conversation

    Eleven PS3 games that reviewed well, sold fine and then quietly vanished, from Binary Domain and Enslaved to Split/Second and Blur, with what happened to the studios behind them and where you can still play each one.

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    Game Reviews3 min read

    The PS4 Was Quietly a Great Shoot-'Em-Up Console

    More than a third of my PS4 collection turns out to be shoot-'em-ups. Arcade ports, M2's careful reissues, modern indies and twin-stick shooters, and how a console known for big cinematic games ended up with a shmup library this deep.

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    Game Reviews3 min read

    The Big PS4 Games Still on My List

    My PS4 shelf is full of indie shooters and metroidvanias, which means I skipped a lot of the console's big games. God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sekiro and the rest of the list, and a sensible order to tackle them in.