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GAMEOLOGY: Luck vs Skill

GAMEOLOGY is an ongoing video/written discussion of game design hosted by Mathew Falvai (me) and game developer Attila “Gabriel” Branyiczky Video games have varying ratios of luck/skill. The more competitive a game, the…

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Great Gaming Minds – Hideo Kojima

Last week we covered the childish wonder of Miyamoto, but now we take a look at a much more controversial figure in gaming. Fans love his philosophical writing, fourth-wall breaks,…

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GAMEOLOGY – Should microtrans and loot boxes be regulated?

Microtransactions, loot boxes, and other practices are used by the most profitable games in the industry. But many of these tactics can be considered predatory and manipulative. Psychological tricks are…

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Star Wars: Battlefront II Devs Respond to Pay-to-Win Complaints

After the end of the open beta for Star Wars: Battlefront II, player feedback has been mostly focused on one issue — microtransactions. Following EA’s official response, more devs have stepped…

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Super NT Plays SNES Cartridges, Pre-Orders Open Today

Analogue’s newest retro console, the Super NT, is releasing in February 2018, but pre-orders open today. The manufacturer previously made the NT and NT Mini, both expensive simulators of the…

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Check out Jurassic World park sim’s first in-game footage

Frontier Developments is bringing dinosaur theme park simulator Jurassic World Evolution to consoles and PC in 2018. Over the weekend, the studio released a first look video at in-game footage, as well…

Gameology – Crunch Time

‘Crunch’ is simultaneously a dirty word while still widely accepted as the industry norm. It denotes the ludicrously excessive hours game developers are often forced to work as a project…

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PUBG Review Bombed Over In-Game Ads in China

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the most recent victim of a review bomb on Steam, which means that a lot of people left a large number of negative reviews over a short…

GAMEOLOGY – Where do I go, What do I do

In this GAMEOLOGY episode we discussed ‘signposting’, or the act of telling the player where to go and what to do. Earlier era games are often criticized for dumping the…

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PUBG Creator Talks Single-Player, Reveals New Vehicle

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds continues to grow as one of the world’s most popular games right now. It recently passed 1.5 million concurrent users on Steam, which puts it a couple hundred thousand…

GAMEOLOGY: Luck vs Skill

Great Gaming Minds – Hideo Kojima

GAMEOLOGY – Should microtrans and loot boxes be regulated?

Star Wars: Battlefront II Devs Respond to Pay-to-Win Complaints

Super NT Plays SNES Cartridges, Pre-Orders Open Today

Check out Jurassic World park sim’s first in-game footage

Gameology – Crunch Time

PUBG Review Bombed Over In-Game Ads in China

GAMEOLOGY – Where do I go, What do I do

PUBG Creator Talks Single-Player, Reveals New Vehicle

AION 2 Schedules Oct. 6 Server Maintenance, Temporarily Disabling Login

AION 2 Server Transfers Begin October 14; Cross-Server Dungeons Available

Apex Legends: Marked Split 2 Begins September 15 With Balance Updates

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