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  • Samurai Shodown Feels Like the Real SNK is Back

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    When I was a lad the highlight of every month was the games magazines. And apart from the actual writing inside, they all came with adverts at the back which were every bit as delicious to drool over. The ones from importers especially: games you’d never heard of, even consoles you’d never heard of, along…

  • Dandy Dungeon On Switch Is The Game It Always Should Have Been

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    Yoshiro Kimura is a game designer of several decades’ experience, and in that time his career has been attended by two constants. The first is that the games he has directed, without exception, are original and unusual in style. The second is that, barring perhaps only No More Heroes (on which he was producer), they…

  • How We Got The QWERTY Keyboard Layout

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    Let’s turn the clock back. About 150 years ago, all letters and business papers were written by hand. Most likely they were written using a pen that had to be dipped in ink every word or two. Writing was slow and messy. Then some clever inventors built a machine for typing. The first typewriters were…