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In the final installment of this four-part series, Joseph Bernstein attempts to deal with review scores in the age of Metacritic. When did fun factor stop being a factor, and why is it so depressing to argue with numbers?
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Researcher Nicolas Nova thinks a lot about game controllers. Especially as design objects. What do videogame controllers tell us about technological evolution? What does the future holds for the modest controller? And which controllers stand out as ‘paragons’ of design? In this interview, Nova addr
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Joseph Bernstein describes the daily grind of interning for a major videogame website. In part two of this four-part series, he waits for the server to catch up, contemplates the passage of time, finds relief in unexpected outlets, and waits some more.
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Joseph Bernstein spent one autumn as a videogame intern at GamesRadar. Part one of a four part series, his perilous encounter with the strange world of videogame previews in which he learns that all is not as it seems to be behind closed doors.