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Worth Reading: 08/25/2014
It's a new week. PAX is almost here. Before we get there, some ruminations on the term "gamer," a new take on what's wrong with mobile, and much more.
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Gods Will Be Watching, But They've Chilled Out
Deconstructeam talks about reworking its brutally hard puzzle game to appeal to a larger audience...after it was released.
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Double Fine Will Help Publish Gang Beasts
The most obvious development collaboration in the world has happened.
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Why One School Is Giving Out League of Legends Scholarships
As competitive games become more popular, Chicago's Robert Morris University wants to attract the young talent dumping hundreds of hours into them.
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Worth Reading: 08/18/2014
This week, essays on the dangers of trying to capture a city without generalizing, the methods behind energy systems, and much more.
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Suddenly, Big Budget Games Love Horror Again
The brilliant viral teaser for Hideo Kojima's Silent Hills underscores a new trend of embracing high-end scares. But for how long?
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Ground Zeroes, The Phantom Pain Headed to Steam
Konami Europe accidentally spilled the beans a little bit early.
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Tomb Raider's Xbox One Deal Isn't Forever
Phil Spencer makes it sound like Microsoft's simply getting the game first.
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Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro Working on New Silent Hill
Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus will apparently star, as well.
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Sierra's Coming Back With King's Quest, Geometry Wars
Activision's new label will focus on reviving old franchises, incubating new ideas.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider Now Exclusive to Xbox One
Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Interactive, and Microsoft have just partnered up.
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John Romero's Making a New Shooter
DOOM's co-creator returning to the genre he helped popularize.
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Remember Me's Developers Have Announced a New Game
Life Is Strange episodically follows a woman discovering the ability to rewind time.
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Worth Reading: 08/11/2014
An incredible interview with the head of Crytek, a deconstruction of Sonic the Hedgehog, and much more.
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Meet the People Behind Hyrule Warriors
Nintendo's rolling the dice with its Koei Tecmo collaboration, and it's actually influencing the next Zelda game.
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Twitch Implements Controversial New Policy Changes
Notably, a system to detect audio-based copyright infringement.
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Yoshi's Real Name Is...T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas?
My entire world has been turned upside down by this revelation.
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My Weird, Addictive Trip into Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
When friends I trusted started getting obsessed with a free-to-play game about celebrity, I had to find out why.
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Take-Two Delays Evolve Until February
The amount of games actually coming out this fall continues to thin.
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Capcom's Remaking Resident Evil Again
The survival horror classic is being tweaked for early 2015.
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Worth Reading: 08/04/2014
Writers trying to explain the success of League of Legends and Minecraft lead the charge in this week's collection.
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A Conversation With EVO's SF4 Grand Finals Winner, MD|Luffy
The player who achieved victory with a PlayStation 1 controller talks about family expectations, mental preparation, and more.
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Crytek Sells Homefront to Deep Silver
The game's publisher has rescued Homefront: The Revolution from the troubled studio.
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Our Relationship With Physical Media Is About to Change
But that doesn't mean it's becoming less important. If anything, the opposite might be true.
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Sony's Not a Huge Fan of EA Access
The company determined EA's offering "does not bring the kind of value PlayStation customers have come to expect." Ouch.
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EA Reveals New Subscription Service on Xbox One
EA Access includes a back catalog of EA games, discounts, and the ability to play games early.
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Sony Archived Last Night's The Last of Us Live Show
Now, if only we could convince Sony to do something for Journey...
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A Sobering Conversation About Mobile Gaming
While making The Room, Fireproof learned how toxic the mobile world has become. Porting the game to PC gave it a chance to look back on that journey, and it's not pretty.
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Worth Reading: 07/28/2014
Remember when I said last week would be the only time Kim Kardashian showed up on Giant Bomb? I lied.
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Sony Proposes Settlement Over 2011's PSN Hack
The company will dish out $15 million in freebies, but it's first-come, first-serve.
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Battlefield Hardline Delayed into 2015, Dragon Age Until November
Electronic Arts shuffling some of its biggest releases in the next six months ahead of the fall madness.
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Ron Gilbert Has Discovered Maniac Mansion's Design Document
A good reminder how much games can change from start to finish, even in 1986.
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A Speedrunner Just Beat Ocarina of Time in 18 Minutes
Even crazier, the world record that Cosmo Wright surpassed was his own world record from a little while back.
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Worth Reading: 07/21/2014
Perhaps the first and last time Kim Kardashian will receive such prominent placement on Giant Bomb.
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Google Won't Allow Games With In-App Purchases to Call Themselves "Free"
Right now, it's a change rolling out in Europe, but we can only hope it makes the leap overseas.
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Microsoft Laying Off 18,000 Employees
Xbox Entertainment Studios, meant to drive original content to Xbox Live, is already dead.
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I Don't Think You Deserve Redemption, Aiden Pearce
Watch Dogs didn't leave much of an impression during my 20 hours with it, but I can't stop thinking about the game's final choice.
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The Man Who Now Leads Atari
Once a gaming juggernaut, Atari drifts into the future without an identity. Frédéric Chesnais is trying to help the company find one.
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The Madness of David O'Reilly's Mountain
It's just a mountain. Or is it? Welcome to an existential nightmare, one that doesn't gain much clarity from Mountain's own creator.
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Someone's Beaten Spelunky in Under Two Minutes
Speedrunners continue to find new ways to shave precious seconds off the race to Olmec. All hail the teleporter!
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