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Penny Arcade To Build PAX ‘Diversity Hubs’
18The organisers of the Penny Arcade Expos will next year be introducing ‘Diversity Hubs’ which will focus on issues relating to women, LGBTQ, people of colour, disabled people and mental health issues. The idea is to be more inclusive but is voluntary segregation the right way to go?
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Only The Manliest Space Marines Like Hello Kitty
While we brought you some of the awesome cosplay we spotted this weekend during PAX, truthfully, there were too many awesome costumes at the show you be able to show them all to you in one go. Thankfully, sneakyzebra here shows us some of the more impressive cosplay at the show — a few we’ve…
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Would You Sneak Through XCOM? Then Don’t Shoot Through Incognita
Klei Entertainment hasn’t argued the comparison. To the contrary, they were the first to make it, saying their upcoming game, Incognita, is in effect espionage done in the mode of XCOM. But you find out how quickly the game is not like XCOM when you unholster your weapon.
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This Game Is Minecraft Meets Contra, With Flying Whales
My go-to expo question when speaking to a developer, particularly and independent games developer, is “What itch does your game scratch?” Windforge, by Snowed In Studios, gets to a very hard to reach place — the one for gamers who really want to play something like Minecraft and Contra at the same time.