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#75: The road ahead
An update from the development team.
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An update from the development team.
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Under attack from all angles, starved for product and with their relevance diminishing by the day, is the writing on the wall for the industry's biggest publishers?
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Perhaps you might think it premature for me to talk about end-of-year awards, but this was the reality of my career in print. In any case it’s around this time of year that Geoff Keighley sends out ballots for The Game Awards, so every outlet worth its salt, online
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At E3 in 2016, I was in a roundtable presentation of Sony Santa Monica’s freshly announced God Of War reboot. And, rarely for me, I asked a question. I was struck by the stark tonal pivot on show; on how a series I’d always known for its out-and-out,
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Hello! I’ve been somewhat preoccupied of late with what to do on slow days — and, to be honest, on days where stuff has happened, but I don’t really feel like writing about the thing I probably should be writing about. Today is definitely one of those days. Does
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Would you think it weird if I told you I had a favourite CEO? I realise it is not the same as having, say, a favourite drummer, or biscuit, or whisky1. But I have a favourite CEO, and it is Strauss Zelnick, big boss of US publisher Take Two. I’
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Nice.
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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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Bobby Kotick puts his money where his mouth is in Activision Blizzard's battle for diversity.
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The new low-water mark for player retention tactics: actual bullying
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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,