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Your Game Isn’t As Clever As You Thought

Joel Goodwin October 30, 2014 10 1392
I want to talk a little about games that subvert traditional mechanics at the...
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Counterweight 14: All Hallow’s Eve

Joel Goodwin October 29, 2014 2 1248
In this episode of Counterweight, Eric Brasure and Joel Goodwin discuss three HAUNTED games...
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When Is It OK To Spoil A Mechanic?

Joel Goodwin October 27, 2014 694
My latest Rock Paper Shotgun piece went up a few hours ago. It contrasts...
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Vault the Grave

Joel Goodwin October 23, 2014 40 2441
On a much-tweeted image from Watch Dogs: "It's true. Over the grave of the...
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The First Open World, Part Three

Joel Goodwin October 8, 2014 10 3484
Mercenary is a game cleaved into two. The city and the underground represent its two...
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The First Open World, Part Two

Joel Goodwin October 1, 2014 1335
Technically, Mercenary: Escape from Targ (Novagen Software, 1985) was not the first open world....
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The First Open World, Part One

Joel Goodwin September 23, 2014 21 5495
Paul Woakes’ debut title on the Atari 8-bit home computer was a tense and...
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The Revenge of Boson X

Joel Goodwin September 16, 2014 9 1442
I've talked about Boson X (Mu & Heyo, 2013) a few times now. First,...
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Links: The Dying Creative World

Joel Goodwin September 10, 2014 5 1006
Is Simon Pegg crying out for the sweet release of death? What can we...
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The Gamer Uprising

Joel Goodwin September 5, 2014 4 1264
Instead of the planned link roundup, here is a special edition dedicated solely to...
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