Category: gaming
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[video game][opinion] Why I Think “The Last of Us: Part II” Will Be Forgotten
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Why will The Last of Us: Part II most likely be forgotten? Why should it be forgotten? I think TLOU:P2 lacks the necessary elements to appeal to a universal audience. I haven’t played the first part or the second part, and I don’t intend to because the genre is generally unappealing to me. However, after reading the…
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[YT] No Man’s Sky Dev has Advice for Fallout 76 and Anthem
For the first time, I kinda disagree with Lamon Gamon 😦 All three games (NMS, F76, Anthem) represent a general failure of the video gaming industry. However, out of the three evils, Hello Games and NMS do represent something… more unfortunate and less malicious, in my opinion. Considering that F76 and Anthem are the products…
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[YT] Baldur’s Gate III Update!!!
As someone who love, love, LOVES Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel, I am SO excited that Baldur’s Gate is coming to Switch (so I can play it) and a sequel is being created by Larian Studios.
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[YT Response] What is a Leader? My response to Activision Blizzard Mass Layoffs (YongYea, Schreier, Palmeri)
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As YongYea rightly points out, this is all rumour at this point, but the situation is still kinda yucky because it is most likely true: Activision is going to lay off a lot of developers while maintaining high salaries and bonuses for the upper level workers. [EDIT: Layoffs have commenced. Around 800 staff laid off.]…
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[link] PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet (Farrington on Quillette)
“PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet” (Farrington)
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[thought piece] No Man’s Sky, Puddleglum, and Our Existential Need for Narrative
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Vox, believe it or not, made a pretty good point about No Man’s Sky in its article, No Man’s Sky is an existential crisis simulator disguised as a space exploration game: Okay, so the universe in No Man’s Sky is really, really big. But what, exactly, do you do in it? […] Even when the…
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