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It’s quiet out there. I’m not sure whether nothing of note has happened, or if it’s just that none of the stuff that has happened feels remotely important in the light of the ongoing Activision Blizzard scandal. There are plenty of updates I won’t link to
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To Los Angeles, sort of, and EA Play 2021, the latest instalment in what I suppose was technically the original not-E3.
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Hello! It feels like a lifetime since the last Hit Points, probably because I’ve been through the mill a bit, which I hope goes some way to explaining the lack of an edition on Monday. Turns out that when a stomach bug meets a heatwave, bad things happen. After
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The danger with writing about the daily(-ish) machinations of the game industry is that you risk being, well, a bit of a downer. Over the past couple of weeks Hit Points has discussed the downside of subscription services, bemoaned Stadia’s messy change of direction and Sony’s dismal
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Google’s endeavours to establish itself in the game industry remind me of my attempts to learn Japanese over the years. On paper, it really ought to work: I excelled at modern languages in my youth, am a reasonably quick study, and have plenty of motivation to learn. I love
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So, it is finally here, sort of but not really: the Nintendo Switch (OLED Model). Catchy! I’m sitting down to write this the morning after the unveiling of what, in the spirit of not-E3, must henceforth be known as the Switch not-Pro, and I am still quite
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I’ve learned far more about games by talking to the people that make them than I ever have sat at home with a controller in my hands.
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It seems faintly ludicrous that the runaway market leader should be this inhospitable to so many developers.
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Big company gets bigger and is worth more money, and the already rich grow somehow richer still.
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When you hear a familiar voice in a game, it jars you — particularly when it’s one you associate with a disco-dancing unicorn.
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“I’ll wait for a sale” was a common refrain throughout the 2010s. Now we're going a step further: “I’ll wait til it’s free.”
