Category: Features
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Paying for Power: A Look Into Dead By Daylight’s Unfair Monetization
Pay-to-win is a problematic phenomenon for games where you can purchase power. This brief analysis of the monetization of Dead by Daylight explores the unfair nature of its monetization.
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Unfair advantages
Exploring the nature of competitive gaming through two kinds of fairness.
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Petscop – The Greatest Game You’ll Never Play
What can game developers learn from the most horrifying Let’s Play on the net?
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Videogame music deserves more recognition than it gets.
Does videogame music matter or is it just there to fill the silence?
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How do sports-themed video games help in real life sports?
Can sports-themed video games be beneficial in real life sports? Can it develop the players’ intelligence in real life as well? Let’s find out.
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World of Warcraft’s optimization crisis
The evolution of this monolithic MMO has not been without hitches, and it might have an issue of identity.
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The hassle of setting up a game server during an ordinary evening
Being an ordinary gamer, I am by no means a wizard with servers and operating systems. Regardless, I tackled the problem of hosting a Terraria server around the clock and wrote my thoughts about all of the hassle.
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Different types of challenges in games.
How can games challenge us? Here I discuss three different types of challenges: Problem solving, mechanical actions, and social interaction.
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Modding Controllers – Seeking a Competitive Edge
From changing the analog sticks to back buttons, doing anything it takes to win.
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Cities: Skylines Review – Being A Mayor Has Never Been So Fun
Develop your city from a humble village to a bustling metropolis in this colorful, smoothly running city simulator.
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Why Game Accessibility Matters
Considering accessibility in the video game domain is a contemporary movement that seeks to make games more inclusive. Yet, there are plenty of obstacles in its way.
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A Day in the Life of an LAPD crime fighter
Cole Phelps, badge 1247, reporting for duty.
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Who Gets The Invite Next? – A predictions about Super Smash Bros Ultimate Two Final DLC Fighters
Who are the last two to get Super Smash Bros Ultimate Fighters Pass invite? There are some possible patterns and my wishlist!
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Smooth, Smooth, Smooth – The PlayStation 5 Is … Smooth
The PlayStation 5 is a noticeable improvement from the previous generation. Higher framerates and a sublime controller lead the pack of new features to make console gaming smoother than ever.
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Have games changed over the years, or have I? Maybe both.
There are more games than ever to play, yet I struggle to find the good ones to play. Here I explore some of the reasons why.
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Time For Dinner – A Crusader Kings Story
What better way for a king to spend his time than at dinner with loyal subjects?
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A game master’s reflection
Given unlimited time, I might eventually run a well-planned Dungeons and Dragons RPG session.
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Shadow of War – Bigger, but is it better?
Shadow of War attempts to make Shadow of Mordor bigger and better in every way. But the result feels more inflated than improved.
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European Speedrunner Assembly Plays Games for Fun and Charity!
From silly to serious ESA Marathon provides great videogame speedrunning entertainment for charity !
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See Your Partners True Colors: Play Survival Co-op With Them
Playing cooperative games with your significant other is fun, and it can also reveal things about your partner that otherwise wouldn’t surface in the daily grind.