Author: Jack Slater
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No Man’s Sky’s NEXT Patch Introduction Might Be Worse
Co-founder of my favorite old pub, The Rock, The Paper, The Shogun, John Walker has written a bit about how the introduction to No Man’s Sky has changed with the latest update: More usually a feature of games that have spent far too long in early access, No Man’s Sky feels like a game that’s…
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A Brief History of Casual Games
Jake Birkett of Grey Alien Games (Shadow Hand, Regency Solitaire, and more) has a good article up talking about the history of casual games for personal computers from a developer’s perspective. Tetris is, to me, the pinnacle of casual gaming. Experts can have so much skill to be at the higher levels, but it was…
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No Man’s Sky Is Back & On the Xbox One
Hello Games’ No Man Sky is two years old, but if you are like me and tried it out back then only to move on before finishing the main quest then you might want to check out the latest updates. Hello Games has added multiplayer, Jack wrote that they have also added third-person options, base…
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The Story of Otto Warmbier, As Best We Know It
Doug Bock Clark has an incredibly detailed account of Otto Warmbier’s time in North Korea as a hostage. This is the American whose torture and eventual death our national embarrassment used for justifying possible war with, and bellicose rambling at, North Korea.
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C64 Mini Gets a US Launch Date in October; Is Still Garbage
The people behind the US launch of the C64 Mini today announced an October 9th US release date for the C64 Mini that we last talked about more in-depth way back in April: The miniaturizing nostalgia shrink ray is sprayed at everything now: Cars; entertainment systems both super and conventional Nintendo; iPads; arcade cabinets… There’s also now…