Greed, Interrupted: Thoughts on Battlefront 2's Pay-to-Win Scheme -- CLS Side Quest
The release of Star Wars: Battlefront II should have been a celebration for millions upon millions of video game-playing Star Wars fans around the world. But Electronic Arts' insistence on maximizing profits over the happiness of its customers got in the way, yet again.
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Between PlayStation Experience and The Game Awards, quite a few games were revealed in just the last week. So, why not go over the 10 biggest announcements, and (unscientifically) put them in order of importance and excitement?
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Video games and the consoles and PCs that play them have never, ever been cheaper, while everything else around us -- from food to housing to education -- has skyrocketed in cost. How can video games continue to stagnate in price when growing development teams take increasing amounts of time crafting deeper, longer, and more engaging titles, with better and better production value to boot? And how we can rectify the inevitable price hikes that are approaching when just about everything requires more money these days?
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From 2010 through 2013, IGN was victimized by the single most unprofessional bout of nonsense directed toward it by the publisher Konami. The drama surrounded Konami’s and MercurySteam’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow trilogy, beginning with IGN having the audacity to call the original game “good,” and ending with the temporary blacklisting of the entire site, and… well… me! Here's the full, 'til-now-untold story.
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Warhorse Studios' surprising commercial success shows that by paying attention to consumers instead of critics, developers can conquer the Perpetual Outrage Cycle and break through to the people that actually play their games, instead of those who sometimes seem most interested in shaming and destroying others.
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Many gamers are worried about the future of single player games. Trust me, I’m a solo player, so I get it. But there’s nothing to fear, my friends. We may get fewer single player games in the future as publishers pivot more towards online functionality and games as a service. But the flood of campaigns won’t stop, and may actually improve in quality as a result.
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It’s CLS: Side Quest’s first Game of the Year video, and I wanted to do something a little different to celebrate. These are the 13 games I had the most fun with (and/or was most excited about) in 2017.
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PS4 is outselling Xbox One by a significant margin, but there’s a reason for all of us to take heart: Microsoft tends to show us its best when it's losing. Indeed, it's quietly (and sometimes not-so-quietly) making a series of possibly industry-changing moves that could have positive ramifications for all of us who game.
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Nintendo revealed amazing new sales numbers for Switch, and there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that the handheld-console hybrid’s stellar performance will continue into year two and beyond. But with two massive cards already played in close proximity to one another in the form of Zelda and Mario, and with a far leaner and far less interesting release schedule in 2018, could Switch’s sales noticeably decelerate?
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When it comes to the video game industry, social media has enormous upside, but the reality on the ground is far different. Today, I want to tell you the stories of online harassment on social media from the perspective of a video game developer, a games journalist, and through my own lens dealing with a serial harasser. In short: No one deserves to be treated like this, especially in our industry, and we all need to do much more to combat it.
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