Author: Jack Slater
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The End of Apple’s Affiliate Marketing is Destroying TouchArcade
TouchArcade’s Eli Hodapp talking about Apple shutting down the affiliate marketing scheme that has funded sites like his in a post titled “Apple Kills the App Store Affiliate Program, and I Have No Idea What We Are Going to Do.”: Apple announced that they’re killing the affiliate program, citing the improved discovery offered by the…
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Yakuza 0 on Windows Today
The only game I know of where you can brawl, race R.C. cars competitively with teenagers, help punk rockers with their imposter syndrome, and sing karaoke, all in 1980’s Tokyo, is out on Steam for Windows. That’s just a few months after I, and no doubt many others, bought it for the PlayStation 4 while thinking “Yakuza…
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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…