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Messing around with game development can be fun. However, one of the hardest steps in game development can be upgrading from programmer art to actual art someone would enjoy looking at. After all, it’s much harder to improve your art than it is to improve your programming. This is where graphical assets come in. By …
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For years, PC gaming was a sort of paradise. Steam was a one-stop shop for all the games you could ever want, and PC gamers were missing out on fewer console exclusives than ever. However, the last few years have seen a storm threaten that paradise, as competing launchers have cropped up faster than we …
If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking for new mobile games on the Google Play store. However, if you’re like me, you also might be spending a little more on mobile games than you would like (as I recently discovered when I started tracking my Google Play spending). Free games can keep you plenty busy, …
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Minecraft is forever. In fact, it was just named the best game of the 21st century by The Guardian. However, if you’re looking to buy it for your computer, you’re immediately faced with a problem: should you buy the Java Edition, or should you buy the Windows 10 Edition (also called one of the Bedrock …
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Story time: I was trying to get my wife’s Dell Inspiron 7386 all up to date so I could download the Xbox beta app and set up PC Game Pass. Everything was going smoothly until she asked me why her touchpad scroll and touchscreen weren’t working. The other touchpad gestures were working, so I was …
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If you grew up playing video games, you probably thought video game testing was the dream job. Well, now that you’re an adult, you should know that QA testers work in pretty bad conditions, and it’s not quite the dream job you hoped it was as a kid playing 16-bit games. Here’s a video on …
Well folks, it finally happened. After years of Xbox promising an increased focus on PC players, Phil Spencer finally delivered with Xbox Game Pass PC Games. Read on to learn how to get over 100 games for $1/month (which will jump up to $5 a month after the first month, then at some point after …
Amazon Giveaways offers an exciting prospect: the chance to instantly win a bunch of random stuff with just a click (or a few clicks, if it’s one that forces you to watch a video first). Amazon is a fairly well-established company, so their giveaways seem more legitimate than a random company’s giveaways might seem. Still, …
Looking for a good game or two to play on your Android smartphone? How about (just about) every single Dragon Quest (mainline series) game? That’s right. Through a combination of emulation and official ports, you can play the entirety of the Dragon Quest mainline series through the first 6 games, and even another beyond that. …
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Retroarch Android is just about the only emulator app you need on your phone, but the touchscreen retropad can be annoying if you like to play in portrait mode, like I do. If you’re like me, you’ve also searched high and wide for a way to make the retropad default to portrait mode instead of …
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