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The Next Xbox Is Just a PC with an Identity Crisis
Microsoft's next Xbox is a Windows PC with a console UI bolted on top and a rumoured ÂŁ850 price tag attached. This is either the most honest thing a console…
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Warhammerâs PC Legacy Deserves Better Than Your Loft
Over twenty classic Warhammer PC games have returned to Steam under the Warhammer Classics label. Some of them are genuinely important pieces of PC gaming history. Some of them are…
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Why Unreal Tournamentâs âFacing Worldsâ In Low Gravity Is the Greatest FPS Map Ever Made
Facing Worlds. Low gravity. Six beige computers hauled across town in parents' cars by teenagers who had no idea how an IPX network worked, and at least one who did.…
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Can the Test of Time Update Save Civ VII From Itself?
I have 471 hours of Civilization VI on Steam. I have 18 hours of Civilization VII. Those numbers tell a story that no amount of patch notes can easily undo,…
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Pearl Abyss Are Showing the Industry What Good Looks Like. The Industry Should Be Taking Notes
Pearl Abyss launched Crimson Desert, listened to everyone complaining about it, and then fixed most of it. In three weeks. While other studios are still deliberating whether to acknowledge a…
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Loot Boxes, Battle Passes, and the Industrialisation of FOMO: How Modern Gaming Learned to Pick Your Pocket With a Smile
Gaming monetisation didn't arrive as a villain. It arrived as a reasonable proposition â a way to fund ongoing development and reward engaged players. Then the reasonable proposition became a…