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The 80’s Influence Over Pop Culture Has Been Increasing
Fifteen years in, the eighties revival has outlived nostalgia. Most of the art directors and producers trading in sodium-vapour sunsets were born after the…
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Stranger Things Have Happened And Nobody Knew Anything
The county sheriff with a flashlight and no theory has become streaming’s most reliable employee. A look at how jurisdiction horror took over the…
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Akihabara has Never Been This Exposed to the World Previously
Cheap transistors built the district and anime built its second life. Now the crowd photographing Chuo-dori is the product. Shop owners under the tracks…
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Closer Look on E-Sports Shows the Weird Results
A Malmo lab put 46 competitors, a 3,000fps camera and 12,000 logged clicks against the received wisdom of esports. The panel came out fine.…
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No Man’s Sky, Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous are allies
A decade of forum warfare has obscured the obvious: these three games keep each other alive, each covering the ground the other two abandoned,…
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Earned Respect From Releasing Previous Titles is a Mix Tape
A studio’s back catalogue works like a mixtape: the sequence carries the meaning, the choices cannot be edited later, and one cynical track re-colours…
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Hot on Steam: Exploration and Creativity on Grand Scale
Four of the top ten sellers this month are games with no fail state at all. A look at why the autumn charts quietly…
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Gaming Specifications Are Skyrocketing
Recommended specs used to describe a machine that ran the game well. It now describes a machine that runs an upscaled two-thirds of the…
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Is Elon Musk Right About us Living in a Simulation?
The simulation argument is older, stranger and more careful than its most famous advocate makes it sound. The interesting question is not whether it…
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