What Went Wrong with Gaming?

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Day 1 DLCMicrotransactionsPremium currencyLootboxesBattlepassesExclusive levelsInvite boosts When did gaming become so predatory? Join me as we dive back to the arcades, and journey through gaming history to identify the moments gaming went from being fun, to financial, and ask, what went wrong with gaming?

Unciv is a free, open-source take on Civilization 5 that’s coming to Steam

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Unciv is a free, open-source take on Civilization 5 that’s coming to Steam When is Civilization not Civilization? When it’s Unciv, a free to play, open-source reimagining of Sid Meier’s Civilization V that’s being developed by volunteers on GitHub. After nearly three years in development and releases on Android, Linux, and through itch.io, Unciv’s now moving its units onto Steam. …

The Pale Blue Eye

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West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix, January 6.