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#69: Nice
Nice.
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#68 Tune up
I’ve been playing Eidos Montreal’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, and having a fine old time. It’s not much of a game so far, per se — the combat system is rather bland and the fights are too long, and in between is some very by-the-numbers thirdperson platforming in
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#67: Duty calls
Bobby Kotick puts his money where his mouth is in Activision Blizzard's battle for diversity.
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#66: Nobody move
The new low-water mark for player retention tactics: actual bullying
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#65: Over the wall
Hello! Not an awful lot has happened out there since Wednesday, which is good, because it means I can feel a little less guilty about spending today’s Hit Points talking about myself a bit. Specifically, I wanted to explain my thought process for the long-promised arrival of subscriber-exclusive #cahntent,
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#64: Like and subscribe
Growth in Xbox Game Pass is slowing. Just how concerned should Microsoft be?
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#63: Token gestures
Valve is the first of gaming’s big gatekeepers to ban NFTs. It won't be the last
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#62: Community spirit
Yesterday MOBA Group, a Swedish company I have never heard of, announced the $4.5 million acquisition of the enormously popular gaming forum ResetEra. Hit Points has covered at length the game industry’s ongoing obsession with consolidation. There is so much money flying around at the moment that it
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#61: Unto dust
Brands, eh? I love brands. Who doesn’t? I love supporting my favourite brands online. I love engaging with my favourite brands online. But what I love most of all is when my favourite brands engage with each other online. I can’t imagine anyone thinks these things, really — not
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#60: Never too much
Jim Ryan gave a decent interview to GI.biz last week, reflecting on the challenges of launching a console in a pandemic and PS5’s strong start, and telling a few excellent stories from earlier in his career (it is worth a read if only for the Ken Kutaragi bit)
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#59: Passing the torch
In a way, I sort of owe Toshihiro Nagoshi — whose departure from RGG Studio and Sega has been confirmed overnight — my career as a game journalist. Back in the early 2000s, when I first discovered Edge, he had a monthly column that I think was supposed to be about games,