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‘Alien Isolation’ is the Best Game in the Franchise Since ‘Alien vs. Predator’
Creative Assembly built one alien, gave it a memory, and let it wander. Two decades of licensed shooters had been asking the wrong question…
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Washerman’s Creed: Try and be Something Completely Different
It starts as a joke about hooded stealth games and turns, somewhere around hour four, into a sincere and rather sad game about being…
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Take a Trip Down the 90’s Memory Lane
A Saturday car meet in a supermarket lot has become an accidental museum of the 1990s, and the people restoring the decade are not…
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Lets Take a Closer Look at DayZ
Twelve years after it escaped from a mod, the survival game that invented a genre is still the only one willing to punish you…
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5 Creative Stages Every Game Studio Goes Through
From the giddy prototype to the grim final quarter, most studios move through the same five phases. Knowing which one you are in is…
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Underground Passages Around the World
Smugglers’ shafts under seaside towns, a Neapolitan aqueduct turned air-raid shelter, an eighteen-storey city carved in tuff: what people dig says more than what…
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