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Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland. At GameRant, she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games to share her love of all things nerdy with the world. Her love for ...

Ahmad is a video game fanatic. He always carries his PSVita with him wherever he goes so he can play Metal Gear Solid on the go, and his socials are filled with gaming news. He also lifts weights ...

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Eric Warner is a contributor at DualShockers with over seven years of journalism and multimedia production experience across print, online, radio, audio, and video publications. He has been writing ...