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The Games Industry – QA
Quality Assurance Up until a few years ago QA was seen as one of the main entry ways into the industry. Join QA! Learn the ways of making games from the inside and then make a career out of it. Only...
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Out of sight
People generally are decent. We respect others, we want others to do well, live well and be happy. Or at least it would be nice if that was the case. The reality is, unfortunately, a little...
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Crunchtastic
Crunch – getting a Ryse out of game developers since the early 1990s #RyseFacts – a simple hash-tag and something that was probably intended as a well meant marketing tool, created a buzz around the...
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Battlefailed 4 – Ship it!
I was holding off on this post for a while. I wanted to give DICE (and EA) the benefit of the doubt. I am a big fan of the franchise and thus, biased as I am, I did not want to talk negatively...
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The Devil is in the detail
There are several core elements which make up a computer/video game. Code, Art, Animation, Lighting, Scripting, AI, Audio, VFX – all these elements hopefully come together to create what gamers...
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Battlefield 4 – Single Player
In a way I think it was all planned. After the initial reviews hit, lavishing the multiplayer but damning the single player, I think EA/DICE decided to release a patch which would cause the...
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Tech over Game
So rumor has it The Division will not hit the shelves in 2014 after all. Last month, after the VGX awards, I mentioned the game and the “gameplay” trailer they showed, noting that it was an...
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Objectification
For those of you who don’t read Swedish, the text (which was stuck on an advertising poster for lingerie) says the following: Warning! Exploitation of the female body, resulting in a skewed ideals,...
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Extremists
So my last blog has gotten me a few replies via mail , some discussions at work and an interesting discussion on facebook. Interestingly most responses actually did not involve a discussion on...
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Harassment
Complete and utter douche-bag sends inappropriate messages to developer. That is the headline i might have used, if i had actually wanted to cover a story on the incident in the first place. Which...
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FREE to play
“Dungeon Keeper is a hard game to review. That’s because any critique of this remake of Bullfrog’s 1997 PC hit can’t help but slide down the slippery slope towards being a critique of free-to-play...
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Irrational Games Development
Irrational Games is no more. After 17 years and 3 big games, the studio closes its doors and around 100 people lose their jobs. Massive news at the start of the week, yet the only article worth...
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Match made in Heaven
I have been playing Titanfall since launch now and by all accounts it is a great FPS game that has brought some new elements to a largely stale genre, as well as revived a few old classic mechanics...
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Virtual Reality is here
Last week Sony announced the Morpheus headset. A VR device designed for the PS4 and a major step forward from the Oculus Rift. By all accounts VR was the hot topic of GDC 2014 and there was a positive...
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Us vs. Them
I have been blogging about entitlement a few times before. Gamers feeling like they are entitled to content, feeling like they have the right to behave a certain way. We certainly saw a lot of that...
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Social Accountability
In my last post as well as some previous blogs i talked about gamers acting out, using the anonymity of the internet to their advantage to harass and threaten others. We have all seen how people behave...
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Notplayed review: Wolfenstein New Order
Developer: MachineGames Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Platform: 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PC Release Date: 20th May 2014 Well then, it’s been a while since there has been an actually review on this...
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Spoiler Alert
It’s Tuesday morning, you get to work, you have yourself a cup of coffee and you start talking to your work mates about the latest Game of Thrones episode (yes this happens on Tuesday in Europe). Next...
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Elder Scrolls Online
New year, new exception. The last one was BF4 in December, but i am actually reviewing a game i have played! Don’t hold it against me, but there simply is a lot to say about Elder Scrolls Online and i...
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Anti-Feminism is the New Feminism
zegerman1942:Great article – well worth a read! Originally posted on elizabethkhobson: I identified as a feminist because I believed in “the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of...
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