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10 great adventure games everyone must try

I spent a large part of my childhood playing point-and-click adventure games, though perhaps not as much as time as I spent watching my brother play them. He’s three years…

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March 17, 2015
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They really did that?! Little known games from big developers

Whether it had to start somewhere, ran low on cash or had a crazy one-off idea, almost every big games studio has worked on some surprising games. A football JRPG,…

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December 3, 2020
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How Breath of the Wild plays with our nostalgia

Ocarina of Time is a game embalmed by layers upon layers of impenetrable nostalgia. It’s a hallowed relic of our collective youth, enshrined in the temples of our memory. Do…

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April 13, 2017
  • 10 ways to instantly end your streaming career To end—or ignite??—your streaming career, you need to get naked, say naughty words, lie, and cheat.

    At one time the only way to produce and distribute video content was to be part of a huge Hollywood studio. The only way to STAR in video content was to have sex with the director before reaching the age of 15. A small sacrifice to make for the chance to get thousands of eyes on your talent. Today, a 15 year old doesn’t need to submit sexually to a series of industry producers, they only need to be good at Fortnite. We’ve come a long way from the days of Hollywood pedos controlling content. In the future the world will be divided into two types of people: content creators,…

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    Mario and Sonic: a tale of two mascots Super Mario Odyssey and Sonic Mania reflect the histories of their star characters almost too well.

    January 9, 2018

    The making of Firewatch The story behind one of 2016's most unusual, human and thought-provoking games.

    August 12, 2016

    Media calls for VR safe spaces Everyone will finally be safe in places where nothing can hurt you to begin with.

    May 3, 2016
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    Train Simulator now costs almost $10,000 with all DLCs You can buy a brand new car for less.

    Meet Dovetail Games’ Train Simulator – currently the most expensive video game on Steam. The asking price isn’t much: a mere $30 depending on the region you’re in. It’s what comes after, if you want to get a good set of trains to play with, that makes the game run up a whopping total. (This is not counting gambling programs or being a whale in a mobile game like Clash of Clans, of course, where you can throw away millions if you’d like) As calculated on Steam itself per November 3, 2019, you’re going to need a grand total of $9,765.47 to own every single piece of downloadable content (DLC)…

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    The making of Firewatch The story behind one of 2016's most unusual, human and thought-provoking games.

    August 12, 2016

    Legendary Commodore 64 Daffy Duck game finally found, playable for first time It’s a 228KB download, which was huge for the time.

    September 4, 2015

    Hardware limitations are holding back Final Fantasy’s butt sliders Naoki Yoshida: "You all really like butts, don't you?"

    July 23, 2020
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    An army of angry Winnie the Poohs is preparing to storm this year’s BlizzCon "They can't ban us all."

    Everyone is expecting this year’s BlizzCon to be a shitshow of epic proportions, and for good reasons. Now it looks like the Blizzard/China hullabaloo is even going to result in an army of Winnie the Pooh costumed activists trying to force themselves into the event. Winnie the Pooh has been banned in China ever since someone noticed the bear bears a striking resemblance to Xi Jinping. You may have already seen the many memes saying as much. This is what we need at Blizzcon, except with Winnie the Pooh.#BoycottBlizzcon #BoycottBlizzard pic.twitter.com/1aVWK1irsG — Klara Sjöberg (@klara_sjo) October 13, 2019 Winnie the Pooh cosplayers preparing to enter Blizzcon pic.twitter.com/9d3Ehir7nv — 🧸Jasmin🧸 (@Sleepy_Jasmin)…

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    These are the most controversial games of all time, according to science We’re sitting here with a beautiful big dataset from Metacritic. It's time.

    February 7, 2018

    Under the thumb: the evolution of buttons How the buttons we press daily were formed over many decades.

    November 29, 2020

    10 reasons Alien: Isolation is the greatest survival horror game ever made I really loved about this game. But I’m writing this with all the lights in my house on.

    October 13, 2014
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    8 ways people are striking back at Blizzard for being ChiCom lap dogs #BoycottBlizzard.

    The internet is striking back at Activision Blizzard after it suspended Hong Kong Hearthstone champion Blitzchung and confiscated his winnings for expressing support for the Hong Kong protests. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s currently happening, in no particular order: 1. Making Blizzard a “Chinaware store” on Google Maps Fellow ChiCom pig Google reverted the helpful change, but it’s archived here. Blizzard Entertainment is now a Chinaware Store on google maps #BoycottBlizzard pic.twitter.com/w1p5B8KBhz — Richard Duncan 😷☂️ Free Hong Kong 🇭🇰 (@Richard99Duncan) October 10, 2019 2. Leaving their Blizzard jobs while ripping their former employer a new one On Tuesday, several Blizzard employees walked out of work to protest the…

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    May 3, 2016

    What your MMO says about you We've got you figured out.

    March 30, 2011

    ‘Adventure Mario’: the making of The Legend of Zelda We’re going back to the mid-80s to look at the creation of one of gaming's longest-running and most-loved series.

    November 29, 2020
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    Steam’s worst rated games of all time We decided to scrape the bottom of the Steam marketplace barrel and write about what we find.

    Since Steam ended their Greenlight policy and opened the floodgates to anyone with a free copy of Unity and a bit of spare time, Steam’s mountains of crappy games have been the subject of some derision. It’s probably not a plot to send more traffic to curators and reviewers – … but it could be. Instead of shilling games you should buy right now, we decided to scrape the bottom of the barrel – some of the worst rated games around – and write about what we find. Most of these are not Tommy Wiseau tier games, entertainment so bad it actually becomes good again. So ask yourself why you…

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    J. B. Harold: the 20-million-selling game series you’ve never heard of With their labyrinthine plots and adult themes, the J.B. Harold games drummed up huge sales in Japan. But despite their success, they never made it to Europe.

    August 30, 2016

    The history of Wing Commander Wing Commander’s paved the way to the modern video game industry, and its design continues to influence game development to the present day.

    August 10, 2011
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    A Call of Duty youtuber is livestreaming his legs literally rotting away 2020 UPDATE: THEY'RE MELTING!⁠—Diabetic drunkard ONLYUSEmeBLADE refuses to seek treatment for the rapidly expanding sores, which are being cheered on by "leg hole" fans as they gradually consume his discolored limbs in daily livestreamed updates.

    September 25, 2019
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    Blizzard suspends Hearthstone champion Blitzchung for supporting Hong Kong The video game developer/publisher is the latest corporation to publicly humiliate itself in service of Chinese masters.

    Hong Kong-based Hearthstone champion Ng Wai Chung, better known as “Blitzchung,” has been removed from Hearthstone Grandmasters after pro-Hong Kong comments made in a post-match interview this weekend. During the interview, the professional Hearthstone player expressed his support for the Hong Kong protest movement and stated, “Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our age!” Video below: [BREAKING] Hong Kong Hearthstone player @blitzchungHS calls for liberation of his country in post-game interview:https://t.co/3AgQAaPioj @Matthieist #Hearthstone pic.twitter.com/DnaMSEaM4g — Inven Global (@InvenGlobal) October 6, 2019 Blizzard acted quickly and deleted the video on-demand of the interview from their official Twitch channel. They then followed it up by rescinding blitzchung’s prize winnings, banning him from professional…

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    The 11 most ridiculous Pokémon ever captured Not every pocket monster is a classic. Once you’ve run through the good ideas, you have to start looking a little deeper for inspiration.

    August 7, 2015

    Inside the troubled development of Star Citizen After five years, more than $124 million in fan funding and nothing close to a finished game, Star Citizen has become a lightning-rod for controversy. What’s really been going on?

    September 23, 2016

    The secret to the success of the greatest MMO of them all Vanilla World of Warcraft fed on the blood, toil, tears and sweat of its players, testing their patience and resolve - but that was part of its magic.

    April 22, 2016
  • Woo-Hoo! The making of Stranglehold "There were definitely moments that made you feel like you're in a John Woo movie."

    Brian Eddy had set his sights on making games early. “I started when I was about 12 years old on Commodore VIC-20,” he says. “I wrote some games and some applications and sold them to magazines and things like that.” Years later, a 21 year old Eddy on holiday in Chicago saw a newspaper ad that read “GAMES, GAMES, GAMES!”. He remembers thinking: “‘Well, that sounds great. That’s exactly what I want to do.” Chance met preparation. Eddy answered the ad and landed a dream job at a pinball powerhouse Williams (today operating as WMS Industries), which had recently acquired a video game subsidiary in Midway Games. But it would…

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    Teen secretly spent $20k of mom’s savings on Twitch celebs, and the streaming giant thinks that’s just fine Twitch ignored the distraught mother and then silently deleted the evidence—or so they thought.

    August 10, 2020

    Why Final Fantasy 7 is (still) unstoppable 25 years since its release, the cultural phenomenon is still generating headlines.

    December 23, 2020

    Sony makes the worst exclusives, according to science We downloaded over 350,000 reviews from 18,000 different games so we can rank Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.

    February 5, 2018
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    Steam game offers 41% discount and now people want the devs dead And the harassment campaign is backfiring big time, with Heartbeat shooting up the bestseller charts after support from prominent anti-bully activist.

    The transvestite community’s campaign against indie RPG Heartbeat has reached a fever pitch after learning that Chumbosoft is discounting their game by 41% on Steam, with some now even calling for the developers to be executed. The number 41 is interpreted as a reference to the attempted suicide rate among men who suffer from a mental illness that causes delusions about turning into women. One sicko with pronouns in they’s bio tweeted, “the devs of this game should not have beating hearts.” (archive) Not really one to support violence but damn if someone doxxes the guy who made #HEARTBEATRPG and their body ends up in a ditch somewhere i wouldn’t…

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    Development hell: 12 funny tales from game dev history There was a time when lax employment legislation meant development teams could be locked in the office overnight.

    July 7, 2012

    The story of Second Life’s long-abandoned Duran Duran universe No ordinary world.

    July 7, 2017

    The game journo echo chamber: suppressing dissent and vilifying gamers Apart from a few comments sections, gamers are often defenseless to the torrent of accusations against them by ivory tower weirdos.

    October 11, 2016
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    A Call of Duty youtuber is livestreaming his legs literally rotting away 2020 UPDATE: THEY'RE MELTING!⁠—Diabetic drunkard ONLYUSEmeBLADE refuses to seek treatment for the rapidly expanding sores, which are being cheered on by "leg hole" fans as they gradually consume his discolored limbs in daily livestreamed updates.

    Friends and fellow youtubers – even Keemstar – have repeatedly tried to get him help, but Brian ‘Blade’ Risso, the semi-famous Call of Duty youtuber who now resorts to livestreams for drink donations, refuses any kind of treatment that might take him away from his daily routine of getting black out drunk to the point of urinating and defecating on himself. The lifestyle, combined with his diabetes, has exacted a terrible and grotesque toll on his now partially rotting body. People on Reddit are daily speculating on his imminent demise, with some only giving him months to live. “Amputation hype” Users of r/Ice_Poseidon2, a subreddit dedicated to laughing at IRL…

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    The legacy of Duke Nukem We take you on the full journey, from hope to hopelessness.

    May 18, 2009

    The best JRPG you’ve never heard of The SNES was the home to a lot of classic Japanese RPGs, but this one is in danger of being lost to time.

    October 9, 2015

    15 underrated N64 games the world forgot about Celebrating the weirder side of the N64.

    October 3, 2016
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    Critics bash ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ for its portrayal of Mexico and ‘latinx’ characters Critics are once again completely out of touch with viewers.

    The fifth installment of “Rambo” series was released on Friday, and the movie had everything you would expect — Sylvester Stallone, guns, and lots of violence. Viewers were satisfied with the film, giving “Rambo: Last Blood” an 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. But this number is in stark contrast to the critic score of just 28 percent. This is why you never trust critics or @RottenTomatoes #starwars #rambo pic.twitter.com/cQwDkjAoYP — Ali Sleeq 🇱🇧 (@AliSleeq) September 23, 2019 The out-of-touch critics savagely tore the film apart, and they all had one central complaint: Mexico is portrayed as a poor, violent country. It’s not!? Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian complained about the…

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    December 7, 2016
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    July 31, 2019

    The Mission: the most bizarre soccer game ever made "Once you have acquired the ball it is used as your main weapon against the Ninjas."

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