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egmnow.com
I'm no wrestling fan, but even I can tell WrestleQuest is an RPG labor of love
egmnow.com
2 min read · Jun 24th
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PC Gamer
Meet the Fuel Rats, the fearless space paramedics of Elite Dangerous
PC Gamer
2 min read · Jun 22nd · Tales from the Hard Drive Ep2: How a selfless group of pilots set out on a 600 hour rescue to the far reaches of the galaxy.
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Eurogamer
After 2042's disastrous launch, what next for Battlefield?
Eurogamer
8 min read · Jun 21st · DICE has a history of rocky launches. Battlefield 4 stumbled out of the blocks in 2013 before months of updates got it …
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GamesIndustry
Elevating the way video game companies work with music
GamesIndustry
6 min read · Jun 21st · Ben Sumner shares seven key things that can be done to improve the way music is integrated in games
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Game Informer
Starfield’s Ambitious Scale Is Worrisome
Game Informer
2 min read · Jun 17th · Quantity, quality, or both?
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GamesIndustry
It Takes Two makes cooperation necessary
GamesIndustry
6 min read · Jun 23rd · Retro Forge's Leo Fernández Infante says Hazelight's latest sticks with you long after playing it, and for good reason
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Polygon
Sniper Elite 5 has one of the best sandbox missions I’ve ever played
Polygon
5 min read · Jun 20th · ‘Spy Academy’ is an instant classic
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Polygon
Players creators on how they brought their ‘esports love story’ to life
Polygon
~13 min read · Jun 17th · The team behind American Vandal talks authenticity in the mockumentary genre, the influence of The Last Dance and The Queen’s Gambit, and more
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PC Gamer
Instead of Fallout 5, I wish Bethesda would make literally anything else
PC Gamer
3 min read · Jun 17th · Bethesda should follow FromSoftware's playbook: Retire a beloved series and start over.
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GamesIndustry
"The old stereotype of games being for boys just doesn't exist anymore"
GamesIndustry
10 min read · Jun 22nd · Newzoo's Jay Uppal shares the results of the firm's latest gamer sentiment study and how DEI practices have been successfully implemented in games
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Fast Company
Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens
Fast Company
4 min read · Jun 21st · Rather than boxing you into its own store, Valve’s portable gaming system lets you install software from anywhere, and it’s glorious.
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VICE
Call of Duty Devs Tell Us What It’s Like to Make a Game in the Wake of…
VICE
~12 min read · Jun 22nd · We know video games don't cause real-world violence, but that hasn't stopped some game developers from feeling guilt about their work.
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Forbes
Microsoft Is Leaving PlayStation And Nintendo Behind Even Without ‘Starfield’
Forbes
2 min read · Jun 20th · I’ve written in the past that Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s ace-in-the-hole.
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Fast Company
Niantic positions itself as a capable rival to Apple, Meta in coming AR wars
Fast Company
2 min read · May 25th · The company behind ‘Pokémon Go’ formally announced its digital map of the world for AR developers, as well as a new AR app discovery space.
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Paolo Pedercini
The McDonald's Videogame
Paolo Pedercini
Jun 24th · Making money in a corporation like McDonald's is not easy! Behind every burger there is a complex process you need to master: from pastures to the slaughterhouse, from restaurants to branding. You'll…
Polygon
The 17 best games in PlayStation Plus’ Game Catalog
Polygon
~15 min read · Jun 18th · Here’s what you should be playing on your PlayStation 4 and 5
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Los Angeles Times
The 'November Rain' music video defined a generation. Inside its 'bonkers' production
Los Angeles Times
9 min read · Jun 7th · Polarizing in its day, the epic Guns N' Roses music video has become the most-watched of any produced in the 1980s and 1990s. Here's how it got made.
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The New York Times
The Best Cheap Gaming Laptop
The New York Times
20+ min read · Jun 24th · You may not need to spend as much as you think to get a good gaming experience on a laptop, and we’ve got options for multiple budgets.
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Ars Technica
Review: TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge is a must-play arcade throwback
Ars Technica
10 min read · Jun 15th · A stylish balance of arcade accessibility and combo-crazy depth.
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Kotaku
The Story Of 2022's Biggest Video Game*
Kotaku
9 min read · Jun 14th · The tale of how a video game is conceived, developed and released in the modern age
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Quanta Magazine
The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks
Quanta Magazine
~12 min read · May 27th · Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone’s hidden number with impossibly little information.
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The New Yorker
The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
The New Yorker
8 min read · Jun 15th · Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct?
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WIRED
The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
WIRED
3 min read · May 17th · Defense tech companies have latched on to the metaverse hype—but what they’re building will be a far cry from Meta’s virtual world.
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Ars Technica
Inside the $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
Ars Technica
~19 min read · Jun 7th · From Akalabeth to Xenobia, many rare PC titles are now considered elaborate scams.
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The Verge
The company behind PUBG shows off its ‘hyper-realistic’ virtual human
The Verge
2 min read · Jun 15th · Yes, this has something to do with Web3.
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WIRED
This Is How It Feels to Build a Video Game and Watch It Die
WIRED
2 min read · May 19th · When a "live service" game goes down, it's a nightmare for the developers whose work vanishes with it.
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Video Game History Foundation
Pioneer Rediscovered: The Woman who Brought Female Representation to Games
Video Game History Foundation
May 31st · The year-long search for Van Mai comes to a happy conclusion.
medium.com
How do Video Games Stay in Sync? An Intro to the Fascinating Networking of Real Time Games.
medium.com
1 min read · May 26th · How do real-time games keep multiple clients in sync even when people drop 200ms+ latencies?
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openmindmag.org
The Emotion Bomb Inside Video Games
openmindmag.org
8 min read · Jun 4th · Players often develop intense relationships with virtual characters. If those relationships go awry, the resulting traumas can become all too real.
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MIT Technology Review
The hype around DeepMind’s new AI model misses what’s actually cool about it
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · May 23rd · Some worry that the chatter around these tools is doing the whole field a disservice.
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The Evolution of Trust
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From 2017 · an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
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Quanta Magazine
The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks
Quanta Magazine
~12 min read · May 27th · Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone’s hidden number with impossibly little information.
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Experience Magazine
How Wordle brought us back together
Experience Magazine
~12 min read · May 20th · Spelling Bee, too, and Words With Friends. Who knew online word games would get us talking to each other again?
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The New York Times
The New York Times Buys Wordle
The New York Times
2 min read · Jan 31st · The word game, released in October, has millions of daily users.
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youtube.com
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss on making The Matrix Awakens with Epic Games
youtube.com
2021-12-10 · Epic Games made an interactive Matrix experience to show off its upcoming Unreal Engine 5. We sat down with the two stars of the demo and the Matrix movies, ...
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vole.wtf
The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game
vole.wtf
1 min read · 2021-03-05 · Can you beat 1024 bytes of JavaScript?
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The New Yorker
The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
The New Yorker
8 min read · Jun 15th · Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct?
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youtube.com
First Look at Nintendo Labo
youtube.com
From 2018 · Get ready to Make, Play and Discover with Nintendo Labo! Nintendo Labo is a new line of interactive build-and-play experiences that combine DIY creations wit...
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Financial Times
Could you make it as an Uber driver?
Financial Times
From 2017 · A news game based on interviews with dozens of Uber drivers
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