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For years, gaming laptops were either prohibitively expensive or wildly underpowered compared to a similarly-priced desktop. However, here in 2019, the gap between laptops and desktops has narrowed substantially. In fact, if you’re willing to spend $500, there are a bunch of great laptops you can get to play a ton of games on (as […]
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Ever since Gears of War debuted on the Xbox 360 in 2006, it’s been one of Xbox’s biggest IPs, and its particular “dudebro” brand of excess and hypermasculinity has come to define the Xbox lineup of games in many people’s eyes. However, the most recent release in the series, Gears 5, has a Latina woman
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There are a lot of subscription services out there, but Humble Monthly is one of the best. For one, you actually own the games you get from Humble Monthly, and you get to keep them regardless of whether or not you keep subscribing. In fact, some of my best gaming experiences of the last few
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Kairosoft has been developing games for mobile phones since way back in 1996, though you’re forgiven for not knowing that if you’re not Japanese. Kairosoft’s popularity in the West has skyrocketed over the last few years, as Kairosoft has started releasing a slew of games for smartphones that have been translated into English. In fact,
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For decades, the stereotypical idea of a gamer has had a lot in common with the griefer from the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft. In other words, being out of shape has long been part of society’s idea of what a gamer is. It doesn’t have to be this way, though. While going
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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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Ahh, digital collectible card games (CCGs). Ever since Hearthstone took Magic the Gathering’s mechanics and heavily simplified them for use with the Warcraft world, it seems like we’ve had a new one pop up every few weeks. Occasionally, we’ll get something more original, like Valve’s Artifact, but they really fumbled that launch by not letting
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For decades, video games were defined by console wars. Sega vs Nintendo. Sony vs Xbox. Ouya vs everyone. However, there has been something of a ceasefire over the last few years as Nintendo has settled into serving the handheld/less-intensive console market with the Switch, Sony has dominated the graphics intensive AAA space with its first
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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
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Sea of Thieves is one of the more divisive first-party games released this generation. Where some people see a gorgeous sandbox with near-religious devotion to mechanics and gameplay, others see an empty oasis that is desperately starved for content. The criticisms were especially valid at launch, but Rare has been working hard since then to
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