opinion
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Keza MacDonald’s Top 9 Games Of 2017
1Most years, I find whittling a best-of list down to just 10 entries a tortuous process. Not so in 2017, because in December 2016 I became a mother, and that brought with it a complete change in my video gaming habits. This year, I rediscovered how people play games when it’s not part of their…
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Why People Pirate Video Games
For such an important topic, it’s a shame that we can’t ever seem to have a real discussion about video game piracy. Any attempt normally goes down like this: people downloading games are painted as criminals, publishers trying to stop them are portrayed as monsters, everyone sticks to this division and nothing ever gets done.
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Riley’s Top 10 Games Of 2016
My 2016 was a year of surprises. There were so many games I didn’t expect would capture me the way they did, featuring genres and mechanics I usually don’t like but that nevertheless thrilled me. I tried a lot of new kinds of games this year, and I found a lot of new favourites. Here’s…
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Steam’s Digital Homicide Fiasco Is Valve’s Fault
It’s been a dramatic handful of days for Steam. Infamous shovelware developer Digital Homicide Valve booted them and all their games from the service. The worst part? This was all painfully avoidable.