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  • New Overwatch Hero Disrespects People With Mental Illnesses

    Jul 24

    Mental health issues have regularly been stigmatized in public, both in popular media and in public discourse. The result of this stigmatization is clear: people don’t seek appropriate treatment for their issues, their friends and family often mishandle them based…

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  • Rockstar Games Adds a Casino to GTA Online

    Jul 23

    It might seem like a casino where you can spend your actual, finite paycheck would be a no-brainer in a game where you can kill literally anyone you see, but it complicates an already quite complicated conversation regarding developer and…

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  • Indie PC and Console Classic Hyper Light Drifter Coming to iOS, Android

    Jul 23

    Hyper Light Drifter is coming to mobile platforms on July 25, 2019.

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  • Photo Gallery: Sky: Children of the Light

    Jul 19

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  • First Impressions – Sky: Children of the Light

    Jul 19

    Sky: Children of the Light was announced onstage at the September 2017 Apple Special Event as a title for the just-announced Apple TV 4K. Delays set the project back quite a ways, but now that it’s finally in our hands,…

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  • To Be The Very Best: A Brief and Personal History of Pokémon GO

    Jul 18

    The simplest explanation for the game’s success is probably also the best one: the experience of joy one gets from playing GO is what Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri, and the late former Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, wanted with Pokémon all…

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  • In Final Fantasy XV, tiny moments add up to a big payoff

    Jul 18

    As I was walking toward Holly’s location near the power plant entrance to finish the sidequest where I checked all the power pylons for damage, a quick-time event popped up on my screen for a split second.

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  • Fez for iOS is Beautiful, but Broken

    Jul 18

    I imagine it must be incredibly difficult for any developer to port a game like Fez, which had complicated controls on consoles to begin with, to mobile.

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  • In Oxenfree, the End is Never the End is Never the End.

    Jul 17

    OXENFREE is centered around a group of teenagers, loosely led by main protagonist Alex, who snuck onto — and are trying to get off of — a nearly-abandoned island that harbors a dark extradimensional secret. Its two main plot-forwarding devices: a…

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