Matt Karoglou, Author for Cheat Code Central

Matt Karoglou is a writer at CheatCC.com, with a primary focus on The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy content as well as various other general industry topics. Matt has been writing about and researching video games and the gaming industry for 9 years and holds a Master's Degree in Instructional Design & Technology from Georgia State University. A resident of Georgia, Matt is a musician and enjoys writing, rehearsing, and performing live music as well as collecting vinyl records.

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The Top Racing Games You Should Be Playing From 2000

Published: April 22, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Though the Dreamcast’s arrival in 1999 would establish it as the first 6th-generation console, it wouldn’t be until the launch […]

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All the RPGs You Should Be Playing From 2000

Published: April 22, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The SNES and PlayStation are home to some of the greatest RPGs of all time, resulting in the 1990s being […]

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The Top Fighting Games You Should Be Playing From 2003

Published: April 19, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

With the 6th generation of home consoles in full swing and the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox all vying for […]

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The Best Puzzle Games You Should Be Playing From the 2000s

Published: April 19, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

One of the best things about puzzle games is that they can take on a multitude of different forms. Sure, […]

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The Most Insane First-Person Shooter Games From the 2000s

Published: April 17, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The explosion of the FPS genre in the 1990s would eventually give way to an entirely new breed of first-person […]

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The Top 10 Sports Games You Should Be Playing From 1999

Published: April 17, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

With the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 entering the latter part of each console’s life cycle and the arrival of the […]

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20 Sequels That Are Better Than the Original Game

Published: April 17, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Unlike movies, it’s almost always a sure bet for video games to have sequels that far outshine the original entries […]

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The 20 Best Video Game Remakes

Published: April 16, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Gamers like to claim that the modern prevalence of high-profile video game remakes is a result of studios no longer […]

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The 30 Best Games on Xbox

Published: April 13, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s announcement of the original Xbox in 2001 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) would shock the gaming world, with […]

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The 10 Best Kart Racing Games

Published: April 13, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Operating outside the realm of either arcade or simulation racing games, kart racing titles occupy their own special place in […]

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The Most Insane First-Person Shooter Games From the 1990s

Published: April 12, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The first-person shooter genre has come a long way since its origins in the late 1980s and early 1990s. That […]

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The Top 10 Sports Games You Should Be Playing From 2000

Published: April 12, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

A good sports game is one of the safest bets possible in gaming. Not only are the greatest sports games […]

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The Top 10 Sports Games You Should Be Playing From 1995

Published: April 11, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Though the sports games of today boast some stunning graphics and complex franchise modes that far exceed anything previously possible […]

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The Top 50 Games of the 2010s

Published: April 9, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The 2010s were just as, if not more, important to the world of gaming as the decade preceding it, delivering […]

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7 Questions to Ask Before Buying the GuliKit KK3 Max

Published: April 9, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

One of the greatest benefits to PC gaming is that players are free to choose virtually any Bluetooth or wireless […]

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8 Questions to Ask Before Buying Nintendo Switch Lite

Published: April 8, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The Nintendo Switch is currently entering its 7th year of production and showing very little sign of slowing down outside […]

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9 Questions to Ask Before Buying Steam Deck

Published: April 8, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The handheld gaming market has traditionally been a notoriously difficult one to break into, with several more technologically advanced competitors […]

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8 Questions to Ask Before Buying Xbox Series X

Published: April 5, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The release of the newest iteration of Microsoft’s Xbox hardware, the Xbox Series X and Series S originally launched November […]

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7 Questions to Ask Before Buying a PS5

Published: April 5, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Originally launching November 12, 2020, Sony’s PlayStation 5 is the successor to the massively successful PlayStation 4. Due to the […]

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15 Games With the Best Plot

Published: April 4, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

At their core, games are about the verbs that they facilitate. The key component of what defines the player experience […]

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The Top 50 games of the 2000s

Published: April 3, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The transition between the 5th and 6th console generations stands as one of the most significant leaps in technology. Not […]

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