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The Good And Bad Of Red Dead Redemption’s Multiplayer
Before GTA Online, Rockstar Games took a few stabs at online multiplayer within their open world games. Red Dead Redemption for Xbox 360 and PS3 was a big step beyond what was accomplished in GTA IV’s multiplayer. In many ways RDR multiplayer feels like a prototype for GTA Online. With Red Dead Redemption 2 coming…
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Sally From Peanuts Made Me A Better Teacher
Sally, the younger sister of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown, did not perform well in school. She wrote reports the morning they were due. She failed multiple exams. As an overachieving child, I attributed her poor performance to laziness. But now that I’m an educator, I understand where she was coming from.
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The Struggle Over Gamers Who Use Mods To Create Racist Alternate Histories
Last December, a 22-year-old modder who calls himself Ted52 purged the Steam forums for his Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Millennium Dawn. Steam’s infrastructure made it difficult to remove unsavoury threads individually, and he tells me he has more control of things over at his Discord channel, where he can eliminate any racists, idiots and…
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Lesser-Known Moments From World War II That Should Be In Video Games
A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of bombing squadron VB-16 flies an antisubmarine patrol low over the battleship USS Washington (BB-56) en route to the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, 12 November 1943. Image via U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation/Wikimedia. Call of Duty has returned to World War II. It wasn’t so long…