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The Worst Games We Ever Finished
Usually if something sucks, we put down our controllers or change the channel and move on to more pleasing endeavors. Sometimes, though, we become masochists and finish more out of obligation than...
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Island Labyrinth: an indie attempt at commercial profiteering
Without secure funding, surviving has always been one of the primary concerns for most indie devs. Though tons of attempts have been made to find an effective solution of profiting, there are not many...
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The trouble with translations: how to avoid another all your base (part one)
What you say!! It is the most infamous mistranslation in video games. In Zero Wing, the opening cutscene has a baddie telling the player that they will all soon fall to the enemy, or as he describes...
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A Game Developer’s Passion: Going Indie or Not
The Game Dev Dilemma: Indie or Outsourced Game Franchise Indie, or in this case, Independent Game Developers, are multiplying rapidly. From a small niche of young professional risk-takers, they’ve...
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Taiwan presents exciting indie games at Game on Weekend
via gnn.gamer.com.tw Held by IGDA Taiwan, Game on Weekend gathered dozens of brilliant indie games and the talented devs behind them. I was psyched to see various genres were thriving in Taiwan, and...
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong gloriously captures the city and its culture
When Harebrained Schemes announced that their next game was going to be based in Hong KongI was psyched. Unlike the previous games which were set in Seattle and Berlin respectively, I have spent a...
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Our favorite levels ever
You’ll never forget the one. That single level that you could go back to over and over again without losing interest and perhaps even discovering something new every time. Our team looks back at the...
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Being an in-game Fashionista with Dota2
The Star-crossed Lovers I’m addicted to making my characters look awesome. From MMORPG, to RPG, and now MOBA where Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Dota2 have incorporated cosmetics. Similar to how...
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The Bridge is now on the Wii U; the world is at peace
The Bridge is not a new game. It’s been out on Steam for over two years, actually, but now it’s available on all three PS devices, XBox One, and, most recently and most importantly, the Wii U. It’s an...
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Our least favorite protagonists
Ever seen a movie so weighed down by the awfulness of its protagonist that you just had to hope the villains won? We could name a few if pressed. Games tend to at least attempt to do a better job of...
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Video games can be more than great gameplay and artwork
I always say gameplay comes first for any game, but I guess every rule has exceptions. Tonight, I came across two casual games that overturned my presumptions. The emotions delivered by the basically...
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Gamer to game developer: the story of a dreamer
Via Scott Pilgrim Saves the World Since I was a young girl, I always wanted to make games. The dream of creating an awesome RPG with an epic story has been forming in my head ever since I first played...
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The (mostly) forgotten rise of game graphics
Modern games are miracles of visual acuity and multimedia immersion. The games we dreamed of for years are finally living up to their early promise. And that’s awesome, but it hasn’t always been this...
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The Five Most Amazing Games (That We Never Played)
Our team already covered awful games we cut through, probably due to our overall cheapness. Sometimes, our thrifty nature, general laziness, or genre bias hinders us to the point of not getting a game...
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Why one note is never enough
Visual novels have, in my opinion, the highest variance of success in gaming. So many factors go into games of other genres that even if the story is mediocre or if the model breaks no new ground, you...
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The best pets in gaming
Maybe you’re allergic to dander. Maybe your mother needs the house to be spotless all the time and forbid it. Maybe you are a sociopath and can’t be trust around anything with a pulse. Or maybe you...
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Saints Row 3’s antihero is more than just a raging asshole
But let’s be honest. (S)he’s still a major asshole. I’ve had Saints Row 3 untouched for years but I can’t really put my finger on why. I liked the previous games enough, and I certainly love...
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Four awesome games funded on Modian, China’s answer to Kickstarter
Being an indie dev usually means the lack of stable funds and little hope of getting published so a decent funding platform is a great way for indie developers to get the public’s attention and the...
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Beyond ninjas and knights: more warriors for gamers!
“I’m in another game doing what?!” Photo: onefacein.com. Who doesn’t like ninjas? I even used to be a ninja… in Ragnarok Online, of course. So, put away the katanas, take a sip of matcha and relax....
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More than gore; how Killing Floor kept players happy
Good monster… nice monster… Trapped in a corner by giant man-spiders and invisible women out to kill me, I called out to my buddy for some help. A little phoonk of a grenade launcher later and my...
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