Alistair Jones
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Catharsis Is Helping Me Shake Things Up In Lockdown
When Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched, Nintendo’s fortunate timing did not go unnoticed. For many, the relaxed pace and adorable aesthetic of their individual island paradises seemed the perfect thing to deal with the ongoing stress of a global pandemic. That was perfectly understandable, but as the months began to blur into one, I found…
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YouTube Limits HD Streaming To Maintain Bandwidth
YouTube videos will default to standard definition in an attempt to lessen the platform’s impact on internet traffic. As increasing numbers of people are forced to work from home due to the coronavirus outbreak, the video site is hoping to reduce its bandwidth usage.
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Money And Opportunity: The Hidden Costs Of Cancelling GDC
It started as a trickle, but was soon a flood. Sony was one of the first big names to pull out of Game Developers Conference 2020, citing health and safety concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Within a few days EA, Kojima Productions, and Facebook had followed suit, to be joined by Microsoft, Epic, and Unity…
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Might & Magic: Chess Royale Is A Strangely Good Mash-Up Of Very Different Genres
Nobody asked for this. I don’t imagine many people saw Apex Legends and thought ‘we could still do with a few more battle royale games.’ Then there’s last year’s glut of autobattlers, where some of the world’s biggest developers jumped onto what was a niche mod-within-a-mod as fast as possible. Did anyone look at those…