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Before we get into today’s edition of Hit Points, some brief housekeeping. With not-E3 done and dusted, I’m going to experiment with the format a bit, and drop down to three editions per week for a spell. There are a few reasons for this: we’re probably looking
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To Facebook, the web’s premier destination for ham-faced uncles and old school bullies who need somewhere to sell broken garden furniture and do racism. When Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg positioned VR as the social arena of the future, saying: “Mobile is the platform of today, and
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Well, last night was a bit better, wasn’t it. Nice to wrap things up on a positive note with a lovely showing from Nintendo. I’m a little short of time today because the youngest woke up with a slight fever so is home for the day, and needs
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Why are you all complaining? Nothing happened yesterday! Those days are the best. You can wander away from the convention center for a bit, maybe see what one of the most glamorous cities on the planet has to offer beyond the fading carpets of the show floor. Go up to
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A mood: It’s not exactly an E3 for the ages, this, is it. If there’s a bright side, it’s that this year the viewer experience more accurately matches what it’s like for press working the show floor. Traditionally, those watching at home only really see the
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One of the purposes of this newsletter is to try and cut through the noise, whatever that noise may be; today it’s the sheer volume of games announced in short order yesterday evening, when most people were busy with work or family. So, here’s a few notes on
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We are hours away from the start of not-E3, and I’m still quietly furious that it is not actual E3, and I am not currently trying to drink away the jetlag in a nice Los Angeles hotel. When we reminisce, we naturally tend to focus on the good stuff,
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Last year, the world suddenly had to figure out how to work entirely from home. This year the challenge is, in many ways, even greater: working out what ‘work’ means now things are opening back up, after everyone’s spent 15 months proving they can do their jobs from their
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With not-E3 fast approaching — for clarity, it is only E3 if I am nursing a hangover in the Beverly Center branch of Uniqlo, pondering if I can really be bothered going to Ubisoft later — yesterday saw a chunk of game-industry Twitter posting their favourite photos from E3s past. I didn’
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A few years back I wrote a story for Edge about Sharkmob, a Swedish studio set up by a gang of former developers at Ubisoft Massive. I’d met the CEO, Fredrik Rundqvist, a few years earlier when I went to Malmö for a cover story on the just-announced Tom
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With the internet the way it is these days, I’m a firm believer that game companies should consider doing their own in-house editorial work. (With my consultant’s hat on, I’ve helped some make it happen.) Today's online media is so data-driven that it’s harder
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Every so often — typically after I’ve upgraded my PC in some way — I will muck around with Dolphin, the popular GameCube and Wii emulator. It’s a fun, slightly off-kilter way of benchmarking. Rather than seeing how well my tarted-up rig can run a Crysis or Cyberpunk, it’s
