The games industry has undergone several serious changes in the last few years. YouTubers and are now the bread-and-butter of game advertising, mods are almost as interesting as the games they're changing, and battle royale is effing everywhere.
So where'd these changes come from? They came from a few games that, through their impact and popularity, changed the gaming industry as a whole.
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I won't lie to you: trying to rank influence is really difficult. There are so many games that left ripples on the industry that judging the size of those ripples can be a tricky exercise in sorting out which game came first. And there are several games that I feel deserve recognition, despite the range of their impact not being as broad.
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GameCo CEO: 2020 Big Year for Video Game and Esports Casino Gaming
A bank of GameCo games were recently installed at the Pearl River Casino in Mississippi. GameCo CEO Blaine Graboyes said the company plans to feature its games on casino floors and offer esports tournaments next year. (Image: GameCo)
Graboyes's Las Vegas-based company produces video game gaming machines that combine both elements of chance and skill. But when it comes down to marketing the games, skill takes a back seat to fun.
Video game gambling is fun. Video games are fun. Gambling is fun,” he said. “I don’t think players care about the term skill. I think what they’re interested in is the thrill and anticipation of gambling and the fun and interactivity of video games, and that’s what we deliver in our video game gambling products.
How Bullets Work in Video Games - ExtremeTech
Over at Gamasutra, Tristan Jung has taken a look at the two methods, comparing and contrasting their implementations and why developers use them. Hitscanning is based on raycasting, which fires a beam from the muzzle of the gun and measures if it strikes anything. If the engine determines that an object was struck, it reports a bullet impact.
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This trick has been used in all sorts of ways. Want the ray to continue straight through the target you hit? Congratulations, you just invented Quake II’s railgun. Allow rays to bounce off walls, and you’ve created reflective shots or even the concept of a shrapnel hit (you can always have a ‘bullet’ do less damage if it has recorded a bounce first).
The 10 Chillest, Least Stabby Video Games of 2019 | Autostraddle
Like Lonely Mountains: Downhill , the title really says it all: the whole point of this game is to go on a short hike to find phone service — but once you set out, an entire world opens up to you, full of beautiful places and lovely characters. There’s no right or wrong way to play. There’s no real repercussions for doing or not doing anything. You don’t even die if you fall off the edge of the world!
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It’s a civilization builder in which no one in your civilization can die! (Take that, Frostfall!) Islanders is simply a minimalist strategy game full of bright colors and chill music. It actually gave me ASMR every time I played it.
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Tips For Playing The Video Games You Just Got
The end of the year is gift-giving season for many people, so chances are good that you, dear reader, just received at least one brand new video game. You've installed that thing, and you're ready to dive right in. You just have a couple of questions about, uh, how to play it. We're here to help.
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The video game industry's biggest failures of the decade - Business Insider
Video games are a $120 billion industry and the past decade has seen video games play an incredibly influential role in pop culture as gaming became an increasingly common hobby and profession.
But the last 10 years have also seen a significant amount of failures in the gaming industry, from major publishers like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, and a handful of new startups with high hopes of changing the video game business.
Games like "Fortnite" that let gamers play together online with mobile phones and expensive consoles, or ambitious video game streaming services from Google and Microsoft hardly seemed like a possibility 10 years ago, but there were plenty stepping stones on the way to creating new standards for the industry.
5 of the Greatest Dystopian Worlds in Video Games
The future may seem like a shining beacon of hope for those of us still waiting for those jetpacks and flying cars, but as video games have shown us, sometimes the oncoming years can take a horrifying turn. Nuclear war erupts, maniacal rulers step forward to take control of society, or maybe totalitarianism reigns.
While there are plenty of rad underwater architectural splendors, bathysphere to travel back and forth with, and an entire array of plasmids to upgrade your natural body with, there are also Big Daddies and demonic-looking Little Sisters to contend with. Still, all of those things are why we love the dystopian man-made future so much.
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