Every Friday morning, I cast an eye over the land of SSD deals…only to find it unnervingly quiet as of late. RAM prices aren't looking...
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One of Jeff Kaplan’s ‘regrets about Overwatch’ was making it so team-orientated: ‘I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution’
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A terrible quest in vanilla WoW ‘holds a really special place in my heart’, says Jeff Kaplan, but was also ‘the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he’s clever but is actually a dipsh*t’
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Garry’s Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: ‘You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination’
I got the rare chance this week to sit down with Garry's Mod creator and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman, whose next project, game creation...
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Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There’s a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: ‘There’s gotta be winners and there’s gotta be losers’
Matchmaking in Overwatch, the boulder to my Sisyphus. This is something that haunts me and every other poor sod still clambering to get out of...