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7 votes
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What’s inside Skinner’s Box? How using an exploit in the learning systems of our brain creates pleasure
6 votes -
The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to dedicate resources to covering games. Past efforts at other publications have failed—why is this time going to be different?
10 votes -
Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid
9 votes -
Overwatch 2 to feature PvE, new map, at least one new hero
8 votes -
Robin Sloan: Three things I learned about games while contributing writing to Neo Cab
4 votes -
Xbox One All Access (Console and twenty-four months of Game Pass Ultimate starting at $20 a month)
3 votes -
Attempting to Make Sense of Ghost Recon Breakpoint
5 votes -
Video games in China: beyond the great firewall
6 votes -
Google Stadia planning a variety of 1st and 3rd party exclusive titles
8 votes -
Six ways Mario Kart Tour triggers you into gambling your money
22 votes -
Overkill Software to resume production on Payday 2, changes to DLC policy
4 votes -
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne | PC trailer - Releasing January 9, 2020
6 votes -
Bethesda announces "Fallout 1st", a $13/month premium membership for Fallout 76 that allows you have to have a private world along with other benefits
20 votes -
Lonely Mountains: Downhill | Release trailer
3 votes -
Persona 5 Scramble | Gameplay trailer (English subtitles) - Releasing Feb 20, 2020
3 votes -
SPIEL '19: Day 0 - First glances at a few releases
5 votes -
Designing investigative conversations in Heaven's Vault
3 votes -
The Outer Worlds | Launch trailer
16 votes -
Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and dramatically drops financial targets
8 votes -
Legends of Runeterra announced - A strategy card game set in the world of League of Legends
8 votes -
Nanotale: Typing Chronicles | Early Access trailer
4 votes -
The creative camaraderie behind Wilmot's Warehouse
3 votes -
The mathematics of winning Monopoly
9 votes -
Darksiders Genesis | Not Alone trailer - Releasing Dec 5 on PC/Stadia and Feb 14, 2020 on consoles
4 votes -
Borderlands 2 VR | Now available on PC
6 votes -
Fortnite is the future, but probably not for the reasons you think
10 votes -
AI War 2 has been released out of Early Access
4 votes -
The stairstep approach to indie game marketing
4 votes -
Designing River City Girls' approachable, challenging brawling
4 votes -
Fortnite's new season has brought the game back to its roots
For at least a year I'd been rather disappointed with Fortnite. It kept appealing to the lowest common denominator and the game that I fell in love with in the end of season 2 (which is almost two...
For at least a year I'd been rather disappointed with Fortnite. It kept appealing to the lowest common denominator and the game that I fell in love with in the end of season 2 (which is almost two years ago) kept changing for the worse. It became less of a Battle Royale game and more of a playground where you never knew what you were gonna get. It kept getting worse through the seasons and I played it less and less. So during season 9 I was only barely hanging on - and once season 10 launched with even more proverbial bullshit, I finally decided to uninstall the game. That was in the beginning of August and I never looked back for a second - I was done with it!
With Chapter 2 however (season 11), it's back to basics. The many weapons have been trimmed and there are only very few left - and none of the crazy ones. It's simpler and easier to navigate, and all the vehicles and movement mechanics have also been scrapped almost entirely. There are no more hover boards, ATVs, golf carts, airplanes, jump pads, rifts, etc. There's a harmless boat, and that's it! So when I saw the trailer for this new version of Fortnite, I reinstalled the game immediately. I've played 9 games now and this is the version I fell in love with - if not better! It's so good in its simplicity. The mechanics with building and whatnot have stayed the same, but the gameplay itself is much improved. It went from chaotic and action-packed to feeling more like a survival game. And the aesthetic of the new map is also just beautiful.
I'm no game reviewer but I thought that this overhaul of a pretty massive game is worth talking about!
Edit: not to mention the marketing stunt they pulled before launching this new version of the game was insanely clever. It made headlines all over the world, they even talked about it on the evening news here in little ol' Denmark!
15 votes -
At the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss tournament, two games between high-ranked players on adjacent boards were identical for the first 19 moves, then diverged as soon as one of the games was relocated
11 votes -
Crusader Kings III | Announcement trailer - An heir is born
17 votes -
Play a game from your backlog for at least 15 minutes, then come back and tell us about it here.
Choose any game from your backlog. Play the game for at least 15 minutes. Tell us how your introduction to the game went, and how you felt about it. Decide whether you're going to continue playing...
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Choose any game from your backlog.
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Play the game for at least 15 minutes.
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Tell us how your introduction to the game went, and how you felt about it.
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Decide whether you're going to continue playing the game past your introduction, or whether you'll put it aside for good.
Meta: I make a lot of "ask" posts, but I've been thinking more and more about something like "task" posts or "event" posts. This is the first in a few that I plan to try out to see how they go over with the community.
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Minecraft: Builders & Biomes condenses series tropes into a family-friendly board game with tough tactical decisions
12 votes -
Manifold Garden | Release date trailer (October 18, 2019)
10 votes -
Humble Monthly is becoming Humble Choice - More games each month, no mystery, choose which to keep
12 votes -
Mini Motorways: Build roads, grow cities, fight gridlock
9 votes -
Google Stadia's controller will only work wirelessly with a Chromecast Ultra at launch, and must be connected to PCs and phones with a cable
7 votes -
Red Dead Redemption 2 | PC trailer
6 votes -
Amnesia: The Dark Descent released nine years ago - lessons about designing horror games from Frictional's creative director
7 votes -
Analogue Pocket - A multi-video-game-system portable FPGA handheld and digital audio workstation
7 votes -
Chinese-British citizen posts detailed explanation of reasoning behind Chinese views on Hong Kong/China/Blizzard situation
20 votes -
Introducing Launcher, a new section covering video games and e-sports from The Washington Post
7 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
13 votes -
Stellaris: Galaxy Command launches on mobile, is immediately taken down after players discover it's using Halo 4 concept artwork
6 votes -
Forager - Combat Update now available
4 votes -
Fortnite was down for over 24 hours after a Season 10 finale involving the entire game getting sucked into a black hole
24 votes -
2,500 more MS-DOS games playable at the Internet Archive
13 votes -
Area-focused narrative design
4 votes