Tag: pc gaming
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Review: Cities: Skylines
It’s hard to start a review of this game without a look to the past. Cities: Skylines wouldn’t exist, or be as great as if is unless it paid homage to the venerable franchise that made the city-building genre itself: SimCity. And I’m melancholy that, with its last iteration, the SimCity franchise didn’t just falter;…
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Reinventing Game Manuals
Being of a certain age I remember a time when games came in big boxes with an actual manual that took the form of a weighty book, a lot like this (from my personal collection): However, this golden age of bog boxes, CDs and manuals has sadly long passed, replaced by DVD slim-cases and digital…
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On Origin
A major part of consternation when it came to playing Mass Effect 3 recently was the forced alliance I’d have to make (for the sake of the galaxy) with Origin, a digital distribution system whose existence is gloriously unnecessary. As it turned out, Origin wasn’t awful, although the experience was nowhere near as tuned as…
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