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No Man’s Sky Player Numbers At Launch Exceeded Hello Games’ Estimates By 3500%
No Man’s Sky may not have been the ultimate in procedural space sims, but for some, it was good enough. A new update has renewed interest in the title and Hello Games frontman Sean Murray is talking again. He even presented at this year’s GDC, revealing a few fascinating tidbits about the game’s launch and…
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Look At This Ridiculous Australian Space Submarine Game
GDC’s “alt.ctrl” section is a lawless land unified only by a single question: “why not?” It’s living proof that anything can be a game controller if you just believe hard enough. And while many of the games on display can be gimmicky, Objects in Space feels like a game I’d play even without all the…
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Even After Success, Super Meat Boy Developer Felt Like ‘A Titanic Failure’
It’s easy as an outside observer to look at the success of Team Meat’s Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac and think the guys behind it have a handle on their abilities and experience. But that wasn’t the case for programmer Tommy Refenes, who recently spoke about “Impostor syndrome” and the effect it…
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Your VR Apathy Is Entirely Understandable
First impression in a room full of people playing virtual reality games: these people look goofy, and the games they’re playing look dull. Then you put on the headset.