Pay to win: how videogame companies exploit players with deliberately poor design
Designers will destroy the games industry if they continue contriving frustrating, time-consuming situations that players can only avoid by paying.
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How will future videogame makers design a grand strategy game about the 21st century?
With the diminishing power of nation states, and the lack of conventional warfare, what would a 21st-century grand strategy game look…
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Videogames based on history should teach us about the past – not just use it as a backdrop
When it comes to educating us about historical themes, games have to do more than simply present the same old tropes…
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Videogame fans will have more fun if they don’t take games criticism too seriously
Games are considered to exist in competition with each other in a way that no other creative works are, and…
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Metal Gear Solid V is total nonsense – and one of the best video games ever made
In one beautiful, absurd, compelling, infantile work Hideo Kojima and his team have produced the supreme example of the importance…
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Why do videogames only ever show one kind of apocalypse?
There’s more to post-apocalyptic fictions than desert wastelands and nuclear disaster, but you’d never know it looking at the games…
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The Chinese “invasion” of ARK reveals the cultural imperialism in videogames
The influx of a large number of Chinese players to ARK: Survival Evolved has caused a huge stir that goes…
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ARK: Survival Evolved and the evolution of survival games
The survival game has climbed out of the primordial soup and after some tough times skittering around between rock pools…
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