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History has proven that Windows will never get better. Once you accept that, the practical and ethical need for alternatives becomes crystal clear. It is not an easy ask, but a just future cannot involve Windows. aftermath.site/we-must-kill-…
ALT A skull appears over a cartoon landscape not dissimilar to the backdrop of the Windows XP wallpaper Bliss. A cartoon version of the windows logo is on their knees, nervously begging a man who appears to be a yakuza not dissimilar to Takeshi Kitano in the movie Gonin, who is threatening him.
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'It sucks, man': What it's like to be the person telling a colleague they've been laid off:
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Horror devs think you're too scared to examine their games more deeply
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ALT Hellraiser: Revival
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The reseller crisis currently affecting scenes like Pokémon cards and retro gaming can feel like the new, tragic normal. But other markets--like sneakers--have lived through this crisis before, and come out the other side.
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Valve knows how to run a shopfront but does not know how, or does not want to be, the custodian of PC gaming:
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When losing a job means losing a career: what comes next for laid off games journalists?
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As Inside Baseball Week continues, Luke raises a very particular games media/games industry issue: we are drowning in press releases.
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Virtue And A Sledgehammer declares war on AI
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ALT Two robots in the video game Virtue And A Sledgehammer. One asks the other, "Is it really you?"
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Never pitch reviews
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ALT The food critic from "Ratatouille"
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Though certain parts fit into the base game oddly and they drown you in gear, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is a wonderfully executed expansion that follows several key quality of life improvements and echoes the previous game's Dark Arisen expansion. aftermath.site/dragons-dogma…
ALT My character erupting from an abominable Blemmyes, a giant snowman whose whole front chest is a mouth.
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At a worker-run game studio, employees voted to lose their jobs
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ALT Young Suns
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Video games should cater to more (types of) men
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ALT A Norman Rockwell image of a man talking
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Warframe's five-year plan
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ALT lotus from warframe looking at a big mouth
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Why more survival games don't let you poop
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ALT Toilets in Abiotic Factor
Valve knows how to run a shopfront but does not know how, or does not want to be, the custodian of PC gaming:
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As Inside Baseball Week continues, Luke raises a very particular games media/games industry issue: we are drowning in press releases.
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Our work is only made possible thanks to paid subscribers, so to celebrate our latest theme week we're having a sale! Get your first month of Aftermath for just $1, or get a whopping 25% off one of our annual subscriptions!
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Never pitch reviews
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ALT The food critic from "Ratatouille"
This story is part of Aftermath's Inside Baseball Week, our annual excuse to explore topics so niche that no other video game website would touch them. To celebrate, we're having a sale: 25% off our annual subscriptions, or your first month for $1
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