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The latest things I have written
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Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia: 50 clicks before you get to a battle
Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia offers huge armies and beautiful character art, then buries them beneath shallow combat and constant admin.
Positive · Art and animation The Art Team Carried It +25 Circus score 48 Positive Characters Worth Looking At -
Nexon Q2 2026: ARC Raiders was a hit, therefore everything is replicable
Nexon says ARC Raiders is a “replicable strategy”. Given the huge pop, rapid decline and familiar monetisation cycle, perhaps it actually is.
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Colony Ship: consequence without curiosity
Iron Tower’s Colony Ship offers plenty of systems and branching choices, but little curiosity, weak exploration and a space setting that barely matters.
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Amazon Games couldn't even hand in somebody else's MMO homework
Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty are being handed back as Amazon Games dismantles an MMO business built on huge spending and poor decisions.
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Everybody gets an autonomous hacking AI! The trillion-dollar PR arms race
Everybody gets an autonomous hacking AI as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta turn cyber incidents, bad containment and model hype into another PR arms race.
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Gothic 1 Remake: Eurojank is not a feature
A promising remake full of strong ideas, broken quests, endless backtracking and combat apparently designed around parrying a fucking troll.
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Another decade, another Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo Studios’ £50 Combat Evolved remake launches to Mixed Steam reviews, weak player numbers, bugs, missing multiplayer and yet another reset.
