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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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Landlord Quest
Read more: Landlord QuestI’ve described a few games on this blog as “love letters to X.” The Plucky Squire, for its joy in the physicality of art. Holocure to all of Hololive. It’s a fairly common idiom I haven’t thought much about until I played Landlord Quest: the first game that I think might be best described as…
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Unfair Flips
Read more: Unfair FlipsUnfair Flips is the first game to really aggravate me in quite a while. As as result, this write-up features a lot more profanity than I would usually include. But my ability to form coherent thoughts without resorting to the f-bomb has been so reduced that I can’t express how frustrated I am any other…
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Honkai – Nexus Amina
Read more: Honkai – Nexus AminaI spent a decent part of this week playing the beta for Nexus Amina, the newest game from Mihoyo. If you haven’t heard of Mihoyo before, they’re mostly known for making a god-scrillion dollars off Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero. That’s a real number. Don’t look it up. Nexus Amina is a monster collector…
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Randy Pitchford Confuses Me
Read more: Randy Pitchford Confuses MeI don’t really understand Randy Pitchford. He’s one of very few gaming CEOs whose name I remember, mostly because every time a new Borderlands game rolls around, he decides to randomly pick fights with people on Twitter. And every time I have to imagine that there’s got to be a better way to manage him…
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