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The NFL is awful. Here’s how Madden could help
The conflict of playing an NFL promotional tool.
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Scale is exposing the challenges of scaling videogames
Scale is a puzzle game with a straightforward elevator pitch: “You wield a device that can make any item any size.” This is a popular pitch. It earned the game $108,020 in funding from over 5,000 backers during its Kickstarter campaign. Steve Swink, Scale’s creator, subsequently created an alpha ver
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Why is Rocket League’s jumping so much fun?
Rocket League is a game that is concerned with a great many things, but verisimilitude is most definitely not one of them. To wit, here’s an excerpt from Psyonix president Dave Hagewood’s excellent interview with Gamasutra about the game’s jumping mechanics: Designing Rocket League‘s rocket-boosting
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Presidential elections have a game design problem
How the Fox News debate is changing the political horse race.
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Get your summer reading on lock with the new videogame Storybundle
This is a very good deal.
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In the Game of Thrones season finale, you either win, or you respawn
Spoiler warning for everyone who is not caught up on season five /// A few episodes ago, in yet another classic Stannis-Davos argument, the false king declared his strategic position—while also basically summing up the entirety of the Game of Thrones fiction: “We march to victory, or we march to def
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The post-apocalyptic world will still be boring
The novel Slynx evokes the minutiae of survival, and points to a new path for games.
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The game design of monarchies
Gating and the eighteenth century court.
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Deskjob knows you die a little inside with every day you go to work
You know the job you hate? Well, it’s a videogame now.
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The makers of Super Mario RPG and No More Heroes are making a tiny mobile game
They’re taking inspiration from Fez and Gone Home.
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Go on a game-making roadtrip with Major Bueno
Finally, the Major Bueno duo are at it again with their most ambitious game-making challenge yet.
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Comic Sans is dead; long live these new, game-inspired fonts
Read up on it.