| How many times do we all think they will say "hype"? |
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Unclebenny
The games industry just talked about outsourcing crunch and totally missed the point
Inside Xbox - First Xbox Series X Gameplay live report
Eurogamer Q&A: Win a limited edition Death Stranding PS4 Pro bundle
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The original MGS provoked actual conversation at my school, something I was in no way prepared for. Someone in my form told me that you could unlock the cybernetic ninja (Grey Wolf) by completing the whole game..... 16 times (I think it was) on the same save file. As an incredibly naive teenager, with no easy internet access for verification, I set about completing the game over and over again. Perhaps inevitably, it was, in fact, a lie. There was a period where I knew that game bacl to front and front to back, while also not knowing it was a sequel. I had no idea who Grey Fox was, i just wanted to be a cool ninja. In the end, the MGS VR missions gave the opportunity I craved. I like to think that Kojima had heard about the plight of a naive Lancashire lad and set out to relieve my initial dissapointment. |
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The Double-A Team: The glorious messiness of Shadowrun
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I adore this game. It holds so many fantastic memories for me. It was such a well conceived game, that was hobbled by a rush to release, resentment from the original pen and paer RPG community and poor implementation of the Xbox/ Vista crossplay. I spent innumerable hours sprinting across the limited number of maps and trying dozens of different character combinations. This game really was the progenitor for hero based shooters like Overwatch (as the author mentions), except you can modify and individualize on the fly. I can totally understand why it failed, the technical issues were too much. You could normally only really play about two matches (which were quite long) before being booted back to title screen. Still, that actually made it, selfishly, even better, it will forever be my own little gem, a unique experience I share with a handful of others. |
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The man who dared call educational Minecraft a "gimmick"
| Good follow up on what has just been a throw away comment before hand.Personally I'm not sure there needs to be a push to use pre exisiting games in the class room. It feels like there is a ceartain need for validation that often hangs around games. I'm not outright against it but as is said in the article, let some proper research be done. Don't just assume its a great idea because you like games as a leisure activity. |
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EA Gamescom 2016 live report
| Did the awful Battlefield 1- pro- gamer-celebrities-on-drugs-mash-up teach EA nothing about presenting their games? This is worse becuas it doesn't have Snoop Dogg in it. |
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| oh no.....fucking shoutcasters.... |
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EA E3 2016 conference live report
| Has he not got anything better to be doing? |
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| When did this become the Edinburgh fringe? |
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| I've got this and the football going at the same time. that's too much content already. |
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Surprise! Prototype game bundle released for Xbox One today
| I've got a soft spot for this series. And Hulk:Ultimate destruction that preceded it. No one is every going to claim they are great games but as a giant open world destruction simulator they have to be beat. Plus in creating their own universe they could basically give the hero a set of stupid powers to play with. Conceptual nonsense but plenty of fun. |
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Ubisoft E3 2015 conference live report
| I honestly wasn't paying any attention when Pele was telling his stories. Were they that good? |
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| Who is this? |
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| Favourite part of E3. Fake Ubi team chatter! |
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Infinite Crisis and the fight to stay relevant
| @MrTomFTW I really want this thread to be more about Audioslave than this game because its Monday and I'm bored. |
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| @MrTomFTW I habe no interest in MOBAs but I'll stay for the Audioslave chat. I like them. They were just different enough from Rage to be worth it but it became obvious they had no idea where to go with their music in the second and third albums. |
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The Game Awards 2014 live report
| I don't think you know what you're saying. |
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| I don't use ad blocker.Not too bothered really. |
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| Me! |
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| Titanfall or Wolfenstein for me. Lets face it though, we are not here for the awards. |
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| Bungie sure can throw together a trailer. |
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| Nice callmeqt314, real classy. |
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| In other news, I had to pluck two hairs out of my forehead earlier. |
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| That's why I love it! |
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| It's not enough! |
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| I wish I had this guys hair. |
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He's playing with the light! I don't need this at this time of night. |
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| Yes it was... |
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| Is this like those EA videos from E3 that showed they had games in development for 2016? |
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| That was the first award I didn't even understand. |
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| Does it win best online experience because it mostly worked? |
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| I'm glad MrTomFTW isn't here for this scathing takedown. |
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| Keifer doing a good job of looking interested. |
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| Why am I awake? |
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Catastrophe games: How Spelunky and XCOM helped prepare me for an incurable illness
| Cant offer much of use other tha to thank you for sharing and to wish you the best. Sounds kike you have an excellent family behind you. I wish you the best. |
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Editor's blog: I am sexist
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Just a quick one as im on my phone at work. Like you, tom, i dont believe most of these dismissive comments come from a deep seared misogony. However i don't really think they are all reactionary either. A lot of straight white men just dont get what its like to be persucuted in whatever way, to whatever degree for something you can't control. They therefore dont see it as a problem wworthy of attention. While i dont agree with everything you wrote I think its very important that someone is out there writing these pieces and making the industry and community think. |
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Ubisoft's E3 conference
| I enjoyed that plus I enjoy his beard. That's enough now though. |
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Microsoft's E3 press conference
| Wow a lot of people don't like a lot of things on here. |
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| He's got an arm off! |
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Nintendo - A Sad Story part two Triforces Link to open chests forever
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Sony turning off Gran Turismo 5, Resistance servers
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@MrTomFTW I'll swap you for my copy of MAG. Never even unlocked the biggest battles as I got distracted by shiny things. |
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Gitaroo Man retrospective
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Yes! One of my favourite games ever. I've got the CD soundtrack sat at home somewhere. I could never get past the third boss on the rock hard mose though, I decided that was obviously designed for people in the future when genetic manipulation was commonplace. My personal favourite track was the crazy rock opera with the slightly worrying organ player. |
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Live: Sony E3 2013 Conference
| Finally got a cheer when they paused fpr a cheer. |
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| Victorian zombies? |
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| That music makes me think the queen should be comingon. That'd save this... the Queen. |
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| How man times will they reference Breaking Bad? |
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| No... but really.... its exactly the same as the Xbox. I suppose theres only so many ways to design a black box. |
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| It looks near identical to Xbox one! |
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Live: Ubisoft E3 2013 Conference
| Unless its Assasins Creed has a Skies of Arcadia style crew recruitment system, you can colour me uninterested. |
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Borderlands 2's fourth DLC is Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
| @riz23 Thanks for the codes. I've been stockpiling them like I do potions in a final fantasy game. |
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Unclebenny
4 months ago
Major brands in the UK and US don't actually make most of their own garments, they just design them here.
They outsource the production to countries with much cheaper labour. It also gives them the ability to hand off any responsibility to monitor working conditions.
The excuse is always that the contracted company guaranteed it would hold minimum work standards but the contracting company does nothing to enforce that.
The responsibility here lies with those companies paying for the work in other countries. Part of the requirements to sign a contract should be built in minimum working standards, with the ability for the contract provider to do unannounced inspections.
Excellent work Chris by the way. Super excited to see this kind of reporting on the site.