design
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This Gaming La-Z-Boy Is A Comfort Power-Up For Gaming Chairs
Japan’s Bauhutte has created what it’s calling the Gaming Sofa Deluxe, and it’s where we want to live out the rest of our lives.
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How A Shovel Knight NPC Gets Made
The nuts and bolts of how games are made is often lost on players. Yacht Club Games published an excellent blog yesterday that shows what it takes to flesh out the world of Shovel Knight. Forget playable characters; even obscure NPCs go through a rigorous process of conceptualisation and design before being added to the…
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Hearthstone’s New Expansion Is Bringing The Game Back To Its Roots
On its surface, today’s new Hearthstone expansion, Rise of Shadows, looks like just another batch of new cards. But paired with the Year of the Dragon rotation—a major rule change that also drops today and will make some of the game’s most powerful cards illegal in the game’s popular Standard mode—the set looks like it…
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The Crew 2 Players Are At Least Happy With The Game’s Car Customisation Options
On paper there’s a lot to do in The Crew 2. Ten hours in, my map is full of icons. Various races, skill tests, and other points of interest are sprinkled generously from Maine to Washington. Most of it gets boring pretty quickly, and the world itself feels barren and incomplete. That’s probably why so…