Author: Edward Hawkes
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How Street Fighter 6’s fighting fools helped me finally master fighting games
Oh to be a fly on the wall when they pitched the Street Fighter 6 intro movie. See, there are rules for fighting game cinematics. You need a montage of assorted beefcakes, flexing and strutting for the camera, then coming to blows against the crescendo of a heavy rock track. These conventions are sacrosanct and…
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Cobalt Core review – ingenious little deck-builder that reaches the stars
Tight, inventive gameplay, cascading card synergies, and gentle, witty character-writing ensure that, while Cobalt Core might not slay Slay the Spire, it does indeed slay. Cobalt Core review Developer: Rocket Rat Games Publisher: Brace Yourself Publishing Platform: Played on PC and Steam Deck Availability: Out now on PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch. Earth has a…
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State of the Game: Hearthstone – one of the best games you shouldn’t play
[ad_1] When it emerged from open beta eight years ago, Hearthstone was a titan. Developed on a modest budget by a rotating team of less than 20 people, Hearthstone took the time-tested collectible card game blueprint from Magic the Gathering, distilled it to its essence, polished it to a shine, and conquered the world.…
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Patrick’s Parabox review – a minimalist puzzler of beautiful recursive depth • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] According to one famous linguist, what makes humans special is our ability to deal in recursion. To take different clauses or concepts and nest them within each other like Russian dolls. And from these beautiful, simple, recursive mergings spring near-infinite forms of expression. Anyway, whether or not recursion is the essence of the human…
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Unearthing Bit Generations, Nintendo’s long lost coffee table games. • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] My childhood home is up for sale, so I spent the weekend excavating boyhood treasures and yeeting them into a skip. Most of them, I’m sorry to say, were junk. There were some pogs, a few faded soft toys, stacks of dog-eared Sonic the Comic back-issues, more than one funfax, but little held much…