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  • The 11 craziest video game feats ever captured on video These 11 videos show people taking ordinary video games and making them truly extraordinary.

    Video games: how much do we love them? Enough to inspire us to devote a good chunk of our lives to them, at the very least. The incredible world of electronic gaming has something for everybody, from the base casual to the most hardcore multi-monitor Eve Online sock-pooper. We’re going to be talking about the upper echelon of gamers in this piece: the men and women who don’t stop at mere enjoyment and instead fight for utter mastery. These are people who squeeze every last byte out of their games, twisting them under their mental strength until they crack. These 11 videos show people taking ordinary video games and making them truly extraordinary.…

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    The final days of Grainger Games—as told by those who worked there The closure of Grainger Games was a shock for customers — but absolutely devastating for employees.

    April 4, 2018

    You’ll never be able to afford these top gaming battlestations MOM! BATHROOM!

    May 5, 2020
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    10 times gamers IRL died on cam F in the chat.

    November 23, 2019
  • Former jewel thief reviews GTA 5’s jewelry heists A former jewel thief has taken Grand Theft Auto 5’s heists to task, and explains how he would have done it instead.

    Youth crime prevention advocate and former jewel thief, Larry Lawton, took to YouTube to review GTA 5’s jewel heist missions, picking apart the details and explaining how Rockstar got it wrong. “I understand it’s a game, but I am to this day considered the biggest jewel robber in the United States,” he said. “And I’m gonna tell you how I would have done it. And what the game did a little off,” he said, introducing viewers to his review. Lawton says that Michael’s attempt to case the store, as depicted in the game, was “sloppy.” “As he’s casing the place, he’s taking pictures. Very conspicuous. You don’t think they would…

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    A conspiracy of silence: How NDAs are harming the games industry Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) have long been a fact of doing business in video games - but their enforcement can have wide-ranging, negative effects.

    January 25, 2016

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

    October 4, 2019

    Making a living in Minecraft We speak to James Delaney, who's trying to turn Blockworks' work into a sustainable business.

    April 19, 2017
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    Twitch streamer brags she can’t get banned for nudity, immediately gets banned for nudity (NSFW) “Jeff [Bezos] lets me take my clothes off on Twitch. I've done it four times.”

    Twitch streamer Wintrycelll had all the reasons in the world to feel confident she would get away with streaming in the nude. Twitch notoriously bans male streamers for the smallest infractions, while female streamers can stream animal torture and beastiality with no consequence. She’s also gotten away with streaming in the nude in the past – a total of four times, she says – which she attributes to her alleged friendly relations with Twitch/Amazon owner Jeff Bezos. But five appears to be the magic number in her case. “Jeff lets me take my clothes off on Twitch,” Wintrycelll bragged to her cohosts while playing GTA. “I can get naked right…

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    ‘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

    Why Super Mario Bros. 3 is still a masterpiece Before Mario had a World, he had the biggest stage on Earth – and played the part to perfection.

    September 7, 2020

    The Legend of Zelda was an explicitly Christian game—until Nintendo of America desecrated it Link, a devout Christian warrior? Believe it.

    November 30, 2020
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    WATCH: mom rages on livestreaming son having a smelly gamer moment Gamers sometimes need to poop where they sit instead of wasting time going to the bathroom, but this mom won't tolerate gamer moments.

    Who was in the wrong here? A viral livestream video has a mom rudely intruding on a gamer’s Mafia III livestream to order her son to, “Get off your game, go to the bathroom, and take a shit. Now.” Not getting a response, she continues, “Bathroom and shit now! I can smell you!” The gamer is confused and unable to understand her rage, so she explains: “You’re SHITTING yourself. Poop is coming out of your fucking asshole! Go to the bathroom!” “Not yet.” The stream was originally posted to creeperman 90‘s YouTube channel but it has since been deleted. The problem of gamers catching flak for festering in their own…

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    The games players love more than critics We use statistical analysis to shine some light on the divide between video game players and critics.

    February 7, 2018

    How a group of Polish devs turned war into a deeply personal and groundbreaking game A look at what went into the making of This War Of Mine.

    July 1, 2016

    Catacombs: the inside story of Square Enix’ canceled shooter It’s always a great shame when a game is cancelled, but much more so when a genuine original is lost.

    December 18, 2012
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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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    ‘Experiment 12’: the disturbing result of 12 indie devs taking turns to make a game Our look inside the strange chaingame made by 12 different indie developers.

    August 6, 2013
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    The legacy of Duke Nukem We take you on the full journey, from hope to hopelessness.

    May 18, 2009

    The many, bizarre emotions of FIFA 15’s emotion engine Thanks to FIFA 15’s new Emotional Intelligence, all 22 players on the pitch can now employ 600 new emotional reactions. It's... not always the most natural-looking thing.

    September 17, 2014
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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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    10 Xbox things to remember on Xbox’s 15th anniversary Did you know the console was almost called 'Odyssey of the Mind'? Really.

    November 15, 2016

    10 great adventure games everyone must try From the games we grew up with to the best modern examples of this wonderful genre.

    March 17, 2015

    The psychology behind your backlog of unplayed games As games become ever cheaper and ever longer, we must necessarily accrue ever bigger piles of unplayed titles. Feel bad about it? Psychology can explain.

    December 1, 2020
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    Here’s how to play WoW Classic on your phone Do you guys not have phones?!!

    Technically you always could, I hear someone saying (here‘s a video from all the way back in 2007). But this Steam Link method looks pretty functional, and will allow you to at least do some grinding while out and about. Works for both Android and iPhone. Watch this video on YouTube Or if you prefer text, u/reallybadpennystocks, who levels his dwarf priest exclusively via his phone (video), posted this handy guide: Hey guys I’ll do a write up on how I did this when I get home. Edit: GUIDE Disclaimers: May or may not be against TOS, I personally don’t care. If you play on cellular it obviously will eat…

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    It’s time to admit that Ocarina of Time sucks Ocarina of Time is responsible for many awful trends that, like a bad cold, games have been unable to shake. Here's the case against Ocarina of Time.

    July 3, 2011

    The 11 hardest survival simulators Casuals, stay away. These are the survival games that make staying alive difficult.

    May 26, 2019

    “You are not a real gamer” The phrase has become a joke and a cliche - but when someone says "you're not a real gamer," what is it they're really saying?

    September 22, 2017
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    Youtuber banned after hilarious murder—of female video game character Viral RDR2 video of feminist pixels being fed to alligator pixels was too much for YouTube in latest fiasco.

    When Shirrako discovered an “annoying” suffragette in Red Dead Redemption 2, he thought it’d be funny to dispatch her in various creative ways and upload the clips to his YouTube channel about gaming. One of the videos showed his character using the cowboy game’s lasso to drag her to an alligator stationed outside town, which, it turns out, has a hankering for NPC meat. Watch this video on YouTube The video went viral right away, and that’s not always a good thing. Shirrako was now on the radar of self-appointed moral guardians eternally peregrinating the social medias for things to be offended by – journalists – and, yes, they pounced.…

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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

    How to make a good sports game Sports games are unique in that they have to accurately recreate real life. Here are the parts of a sports game that can make or break it.

    August 31, 2017

    We are producing way too many (good) video games There more good games out there than ever before, and they're getting longer. Let's look at the numbers.

    October 10, 2016
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    Tilting a pro female CS:GO team lol

    Watch this video on YouTube So me and my friends got matched up against “Riot fe” CSGO team and won 16-14 on mirage. Here’s their hltv profile: https://www.hltv.org/team/7939/riot-fe Here is zon1q’s twitch account: https://go.twitch.tv/zon1q And marions: https://go.twitch.tv/mar1on423 Music: Offenbach – Can Can Music Some clarifications : About my POV – If you’re using ShadowPlay, you’ll understand me better. With ShadowPlay you can record the last minute or so (depends on how much u change it in the settings) of your gameplay, which is exactly why I have 1 clip from my POV but not the whole game Stream sniping: No neither I, nor my teammates stream sniped them, I cant…

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    Kotaku is killing video game journalism When Kotaku introduced ‘social justice’ to gaming coverage, it all went to hell. Why can't we just play?

    August 25, 2016

    5 plot twists that would have made great games even better When done right, a twist can be truly spectacular. Here's what they should have done...

    September 1, 2014

    Making a living in Minecraft We speak to James Delaney, who's trying to turn Blockworks' work into a sustainable business.

    April 19, 2017
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    Game dev tries to take down youtuber’s video for calling his crappy game a ‘load of crap’ Some people just can't take criticism.

    The lead developer for the widely panned game, The Art of Stealth, complained on Steam’s message boards that a youtuber’s video review of his game was in violation of copyrights. Youtuber Jim Sterling had posted a strongly worded review, calling the game a “load of crap.” Watch this video on YouTube The developer, Matan Cohen, then tried to enlist the help of the Steam community by pointing to rules set by YouTube regarding use of game footage in videos. “Jim Sterling has no respect to software engineers who learned programming in university for 5 years and work hard to create a good game,” Cohen writes in the post. He also says of Sterling,…

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    RIP Konami console games, 1983-2015 With Konami moving away from mainstream gaming and onto pachinko and mobile, it's time for a nostalgic look back over its best games.

    September 21, 2015

    The untold story of PlayStation Home, Sony’s most successful disaster Plagued by problems from the start, PlayStation Home never officially made it out of beta before it was shut down. But it was also very profitable. This is its story.

    July 29, 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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