Author: Jack Slater
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PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds
Multiplayer shooters are changing. What was a field dominated by arena free-for-all shooters and then samey-military combat games where the most significant change was the switch from World War 2 to the modern military aesthetic and then to the future has now become forked down the path of realism mixed with the old arena combat.…
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Classic Adventure Full Throttle Remastered Rolls Out
Today must be a day to talk about remasters. Double Fine has released Full Throttle Remastered, it’s the classic 1995 adventure from Tim Schafer and co at LucasArts available for anyone who didn’t get a chance to play it, or hasn’t seen it in 20 years. It’s on a bunch of digital platforms for Windows (Steam,…
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Starcraft: The Original, And Brood War Free
Blizzard is working on a remastered version of their sci-fi RTS progenitor, Starcraft and the expansion beloved for competitive multiplayer, Brood War, but first they’ve gone and made the original versions of the games free as their patch notes for version 1.18 of the almost 20 year old game spell out. Those patch notes also contain…
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Classic Nintendo
What happens when Nintendo launches a very successful and cheap console a few months before releasing the Switch hybrid console/handheld? Jose Otero: Nintendo will discontinue the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition and the last shipments will go out to retailers throughout this month. I bet that Nintendo looked at the Classic as a mistake. It was too cheap and…
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“I’m upset that you changed the password to the PSN account I stole from you”
Seriously crazy stuff going on with PSN account resellers in this article from Patrick Klepek: A few weeks ago, Mic Fok got a weird email. The person writing it claimed they’d been playing Overwatch on a PlayStation Network account for more than six months, but the password had changed recently. But why would Fok know…