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on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:25:00 EDT
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This week's highlights include impressions of the much-pivoted We Happy Few, hands-on with the vaunted Magic Leap AR glasses, and lots more besides.
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on Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:34:00 EDT
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This week's highlights include neat analysis on Six Ages & King Of Dragon Pass, the battle for Manchester Cathedral in Resistance revisited, and lots more.
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on Sun, 29 Jul 2018 09:57:00 EDT
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This week's highlights include juicy math(s) in Slay The Spire, the creation of Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, and loads more.
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on Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:40:00 EDT
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This week's highlights include a report on the latest Pokemon Go Fest, the return of Sean Murray & No Man's Sky, and lots more besides.
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on Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:22:00 EDT
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This week's highlights include a rounded look at Octopath Traveler, the dev making a DOS game in 2018, and the evolution of the PlayStation 1-style demake as a genre.
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on Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:43:00 EDT
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This week's highlights include a fascinating longform piece on a video streamer, Fortnite's unexpected story flourishes, and more on gaming addiction being 'singled out'.
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[Blog - 11/19/2017 - 10:41]
A lot of the rest ...
A lot of the rest of that article is interesting, but that seems badly sourced - though I will say America 's Army the game is still being updated even now, and there 's even an eSports league for it, I guess. r n r nAlso, I still claim the ...
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[News - 11/30/2016 - 03:11]
Having worked in AAA 15-20 ...
Having worked in AAA 15-20 years ago, and left partly because of some things that could arguably have been ameliorated by unionization working hours, in particular , I 'm very sympathetic to the argument. Unfortunately, I think 15-20 years ago was the time that this move would have been much ...
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[Blog - 10/12/2016 - 10:31]
FWIW, I think that '32,000 ...
FWIW, I think that '32,000 copies sold ' stat is pretty misleading - it was a median as of 2015, but that 's including massive lifetime numbers for games, and a lot of games being in bundles too. My impression is that a brand new Steam game launching in 2016 ...
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[News - 12/28/2015 - 10:18]
Thanks - we 've updated ...
Thanks - we 've updated the story to reflect these edits, and also added another data point: A Gamasutra-authored survey conducted in early 2014 suggested that solo indie developers earned an average income of 11,812 in 2013, down 49 percent from 2012 s 23,130 average . r n r nAs ...
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[News - 11/23/2015 - 04:02]
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[Blog - 10/26/2015 - 08:05]
I 've been a fan ...
I 've been a fan of 'writing about games and not just for review ' for a decade plus now - as you guys might/might not know, I used to commission cheaply, but it was paid a lot of criticism for the now defunct GameSetWatch website, including a number of ...
