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The Making Of Warcraft
Back before the dawn of time, which is to say when PC games were written for the DOS operating system, I got to work on a game called Warcraft.
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Achievements Have Ruined How I Play Games
It‘s almost midnight and I have spent the last hour killing myself over and over and over again. 205M. Too far. 199M. Almost there. 199M again. So close. This continues, the tapping of my space bar sharpening behind the force of frustration with each failed attempt, for dozens of playthroughs.
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I Am Stereoblind, But The 3DS Lets Me See The World As Others See It
I cried the first time I held a Nintendo 3DS. The experience was a revelation that I’ll not soon forget, and even if everyone stopped making games for it tomorrow, my blue 3DS XL is not going anywhere. That little machine is a window into a part of human experience that most people take for…
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One Last Crazy Theory About Mass Effect 3’s Ending
I have a theory about the end of Mass Effect 3. Not a serious theory, mind you. A crazy theory, the kind even I don’t take seriously but find it fun to think about. Essentially, it’s that everything in the Citadel DLC is not preceding the final events of the campaign but that it follows…