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7 Popular PC games of the last 65 months that actually sucked

By Mr. Mackerel ⋅ January 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

These games are all immensely popular, highly rated and a fair amount of fun, but each and every one of them is also a spectacular shitbag of suck. Mirror’s Edge (2009, metacritic 81, user score 8.2, 1+ million copies sold) Parkour does not translate well to the PC. Moments of fluid motion are rare, the [...]

The shared experience of single player games

By Mr. Mackerel ⋅ December 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We don’t often stop to think about the entire layer of shared experiences represented by video games.

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