Dev quitting Steam over the two-hour refund policy This post is in reply to an article on Eurogamer: Steam’s two-hour refund policy leads to indie developer quitting game development, adding ‘This is why we can’t have nice things’. It sets the story up nicely, but Gamersutras explanation is better: Steam refund abuse has Summer of […]
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Retelling the Activision Blizzard lawsuit The story so far This is a parody of the news so far, from the initial news that the government have a lawsuit again the company, to disturbing stories from staff, to shareholders suing the company for securities fraud to the latest revelation that Blizzard – allegedly – have been
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This post: circa 4,500 words, estimated reading time, excluding videos: 22 minutes. When and how the fall of Blizzard began For me, the fall of Blizzard didn’t start with the revelations of endemic bullying, racism, and misogynistic sexism. It didn’t start with Bobby Kotick’s salary rising to over $2m a month, then more a $1m
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Baldur’s Gate 3: Hag fight: Defeating Auntie Ethel and saving Mayrina I’ve updated this to include the option to fight the Hag in her hut and avoid a lot of hassle. They may remove this in later patches, but for now, it’s possible to slaughter Auntie Ethel easily, even at level 4 or below. Bag
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Uncovering Harvard’s Rat #42 A poorly copied, blurry version of this parody lab story popped up in my Facebook stream early today. I squinted (it really was a poor copy!), smiled and possibly even laughed as I remembered this from a few years back, found while studying psychology. Funny as heck at the time, it
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Ganking the Githyanki At this stage of early access, this is arguably the hardest fight of the game. The bulette, in comparison, is a pushover. The minotaurs? There are ways to slaughter them. But four level 5 Githyanki, that’s not a fair fight. But how to even the odds? Scenario 1: You go in together,
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Baldur’s Gate 3, looting your way to success Note: This is (replay) guide is a work in progress. I am adding sections as I go, in the order that I play them. The aim is to unlock all the traders and to get deep into the Underdark while killing as few people or creatures as
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The first rule of Fight Club… This is the Tl;dr version. (The full version runs over 4,500 words if you are interested. See link at the bottom of the page.) First rules: 1. Alt loot! Press ALT to show all the loot, herbs, chests on the ground. { Press ALT to highlight items on the
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