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Snooker 2019 Cues Up For a Big Break
3Snooker is one of those spectator sports that you either ‘get’ or think is the most boring thing on Earth. Two people with cues whacking a load of balls around a baize-covered table is not the height of athleticism or, on a superficial level, the source of obvious visual thrills. But once you understand a…
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I Learned To Love Andromeda By Not Expecting It To Be Mass Effect
When Mass Effect Andromeda first released nearly two years ago, I was pretty hard on it. The original Mass Effect trilogy is one of my favourite game series of all time, and a lot of what I loved about those games just didn’t seem to be present in Bioware’s ambitiously sprawling open world sequel.
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The Changing Face Of Game Development In Guildford
Guildford is one of the crown jewels of big-budget UK video game development. Over the years it’s been home to huge studios like Born Ready Games, Bullfrog, Criterion, Hello Games, Lionhead, Media Molecule, Supermassive … the list goes on. Not all of those developers are still going, and that’s one reason why Guildford is changing…
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Bubbles the Cat Left Me Feline Fine
Video games are many things to many people. Sometimes they’re sombre stories about saving the world: managing a society’s rise; taking on the Nazis; finding a way through situations where countless ‘lives’ are at stake. And sometimes games are just pure escapist fantasy; light-hearted joy that transports you away from this vale of tears, if…