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What Makes RTS Games Fun: Accessibility Woes of RTS

It’s well known that RTS suffer from being less accessible than other genres, but I think the reasoning for why is oversimplified and under-analysed. Most people attribute the accessibility woes of...

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What Makes RTS Games Fun: Lessons RTS Can Learn From Chess

Chess is one of oldest strategy games of all time, and the most successful having been passed down across generations for over a millennium. Depending on how you define esports, Chess could now be...

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Why Command & Conquer Rivals is Actually Really Fun

Earlier this year, I wrote up some first impressions when I got my hands on Command & Conquer Rivals. The article overviews why I like it, but I’m still in shock about enjoying a mobile RTS as...

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The What, Why & WTF: Bullshot

If you watched E3 this year, there’s a good chance that you saw something that wasn’t real. Y’know, I thought that would be a lot more obvious before I wrote it down, but it’s now occurred to me that...

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The What, Why & WTF: Novels You Can See!

Reading is not one of my strong points. There’s a comedic irony to the fact that I write for GameCloud but can barely manage to get through a couple of books each year. Maybe it’s because I’m busy...

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The What, Why & WTF: Fear of Missing Content

An old friend of mine reached out to me a while back for an evening of gaming. As a fan of games and evenings, I couldn’t resist indulging in a bit of sunless controller fondling. We ended up playing...

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Esports Hasn’t Ruined RTS

Hang around on Reddit or YouTube comments for long enough, and you’ll see accusations that modern RTS games have been ruined by esports, that they have become little more than “clickfests.” Firstly,...

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Why I Play Games: Halo

I think it’s fair to say Halo isn’t what it used to be. I remember a time when Halo was a system seller, and when it was THE reason to invest in Microsoft’s foray into the console market. I’m also...

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Why I Play Games: Guitar Hero

Sitting just outside the reach of a Nerf gun is my alpine white Gibson Les Paul Studio guitar. Its edges are darkened by sweat and dead skin seeping into the wood, and the once shiny gold pickups seem...

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Top 10 Bulls*%t Games of 2018

2018 was a pretty great year for games, but it wasn’t without its pitfalls. In a day and age when the industry is as large as it is, singling out the worst games for us all to point and laugh at isn’t...

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