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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) – Book Review
Read more: This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) – Book ReviewI guess I’m doing book reviews for a bit. Look, at least some of these books will be about games, so at least that helps. Not this one though! This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong is a (generally) non-fiction book by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, who are better known for their Map Men…
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Buying Lottery Tickets is a Stupid Business Model
Read more: Buying Lottery Tickets is a Stupid Business Modelor Why Do You All Keep Making Live Service Games? A Fritz Rant Imagine that I come to you with an incredible idea for a business: buying lottery tickets. You are skeptical at first, but I make the following argument. We’ll only do it for a little bit. If it doesn’t turn out to be…
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Grim Dawn
Read more: Grim DawnGrim Dawn is an ARPG that is probably intended to be in the vein of Diablo 2. I honestly don’t know. I never played Diablo 2. What I do know is that after 11 hours, 17 deaths, and one kill on the final boss, I do not recommend it. In fact, I actively loathe Grim…
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Friend Vs Friends
Read more: Friend Vs FriendsI enjoy playing Friends Vs Friends. I don’t enjoy its progression structure for unlocks, and I will complain about that in a bit. One person I played with called it “Play-To-Win” which is very funny way of putting it, and also felt kind of accurate. But let’s start with the good stuff. Genre 1v1/2v2 FPS…
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A Brief Bit About Me AKA Who Writes This Crud?
Read more: A Brief Bit About Me AKA Who Writes This Crud?I moved recently, and work has been incredibly busy. So instead of a full review, I want to talk a bit about something that’s been on my mind recently: myself! I’ll be honest, this was a post about why I have difficultly recommending live service games, but after getting 8 paragraphs in, I realized it…
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