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Sense of Adventure: Dave Gilbert, Wadjet Eye Games and The Shivah.
Real-world religions are oddly absent from games. Whether it’s through fear or complacency, the mainstream part of our industry careful sidesteps controversy. If religion enters at all, it’s used as...
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Football Manager’s Miles Jacobson on what to do when you find ten million...
At the London Games Conference last week, Sports Interactive’s Miles Jacobson revealed that over 10.1m people had illegally downloaded Football Manager 2012. A ‘flaw’ in the code for a cracked version...
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Sylvain Trottier, associate producer on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, on...
Sylvain Trottier, associate producer on Assassin’s Creed IV, is keen to make the differences between generations obvious – so much so that your grandma can tell the difference. In the new issue of...
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Embrace The Bounce
It’s 2002. The Thing, the game of one of my favourite films, is about to come out and I’ve’ve just started working on a games magazine. I get the game code, load it and enter the world. It’s great!...
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Crusader Kings II: wilful obscurantism as a design ethos
There’s a scene in Groundhog Day where Phil Connors endlessly attempts to save the life of a homeless old duffer. In my game of Crusader Kings II, Isaac of the Khazars has a similarly deterministic...
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Ninja Theory’s Antoniades: Xbox One is “completely the wrong direction”,...
UPDATE: Ninja Theory has given us the below statement to clarify Tameem Antionades’ comments in Helsinki last week: “Although we’re very excited by mobile opportunities, and the release of our first...
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The Porcine Peril of Full Bore, Whole Hog’s piggy mining delight
Despite the endless innovation of the indie space, even indie designers find it hard to escape every aspect of societal norms – which is why, we guess, that most of our protagonists are generically...
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Delving Deep: Desktop Dungeons, the quickfire roguelike puzzler four years in...
Indie changes concepts around. In indie terms, a big team isn’t 400 people – it’s four. A big budget isn’t $265,000,000 – it’s $26,500 (though having a budget at all is unduly specific). And having...
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In want of good fortune: Ever, Jane is the Kickstarter-funded MMO based on...
Ever, Jane’s gameplay involves gossiping about other players while preserving one’s own standing in the in-game society. Whether it’s Cyrano de Bergerac predicting solar-powered spaceships or HG Wells...
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Still Playing: PlanetSide 2 – the unheralded online shooter that could take...
This PC shooter already hosts online battles to compare with much-hyped console contenders. It’s coming to PS4 in 2014. Your Battlefield is deserted. Your Destiny is uncertain. Those who answer your...
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