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[exclusive] "We Don't Want A Doll, We Want A Human": Inside IO's Plan For A New 007
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[exclusive] "We Don't Want A Doll, We Want A Human": Inside IO's Plan For A New 007
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How does the Hitman studio build a Bond game? I sat down with IO Interactive's Franchise art director Rasmus Poulsen to talk development, design, and the pressure of tackling a 60-year-old icon.

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Hotel Architect Review: My New Addiction Is Building Hotels for Ungrateful Blobs
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Hotel Architect Review: My New Addiction Is Building Hotels for Ungrateful Blobs
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I’ve been searching for a good hotel sim for years. Hotel Architect is the closest I’ve come to finding it, and it has completely consumed my life with its charming, chaotic, and dangerously addictive gameplay.

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A Quarter-Century of Gaming: The Hits, the Misses, and the Ideas That Refused to Die
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A Quarter-Century of Gaming: The Hits, the Misses, and the Ideas That Refused to Die
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The last 25 years of gaming have been a gold rush of new ideas and cynical ways to fleece players. I’m talking about the titans, the disruptors, and the spectacular failures that shaped everything we play today.

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From Counter-Strike to Co-op: Gooseman on His New Game, the "Saturated" PVP Scene and the future of the genre.

Ever wonder what the guy who basically wrote the book on competitive shooters does next? Turns out, he tears the book up and starts a new one. I got the full story from Counter-Strike co-creator Minh "Gooseman" Le on his pivot to co-op with Alpha Response, his diagnosis for a "saturated" PVP market, and where he thinks the real innovation in the genre will come from.

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