The line between an amazing video game name and a terrible one is nebulous. Some game names try so hard that they loop back around and become good, despite being objectively bad.
Occasionally, there's a video game name that is exactly right, managing to perfectly capture the essence of the game in question. More often than not, though, game names leave us scratching our heads.
Neon White and Marvel's Midnight Suns have the year's worst video game writing - The Verge
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When I think of bad video game dialogue, I'm reminded of this tweet : the thinly veiled exposition, the personality quirks as a stand-in for actual characterization, the stilted and strangely paced delivery. Basically, this is the way no person speaks or has ever spoken.
But what gets me are the games where the bad writing is completely unnecessary. This year, I'm thinking of a couple of games specifically: two where I loved actually playing them, until the moments where they forced me to sit and listen to atrocious dialogue for no reason.
Video games in 2022: Massive mergers and peculiar portables | Ars Technica
Gamers, and the game industry as a whole, can be a little too focused on what's next.
In that kind of environment, it can be useful to review the major trends shaping the industry over a period longer than a few days. Looking back at the big gaming news of 2022, a few clear storylines emerge.
Study: Children who play video games have better impulse control and memory | Allen County | ...
A recent study found children who play video games for three hours a day or more seemed to have better impulse control and memory.
Can "The Last of Us" Break the Curse of Bad Video-Game Adaptations? | The New Yorker
When the British actor Bob Hoskins agreed to star in "Super Mario Bros.," he had little sense of what he was getting into.
A Sony PlayStation title released in 2013, The Last of Us follows a man charged with shepherding a teen-age girl across a pandemic-ravaged America, where infected individuals are reduced to mindless assailants.
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How NFT video games crashed and burned - Polygon
Less than 12 months ago, it felt as if 2022 would be the year NFTs took off in the video game world. Companies like EA, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Zynga, Niantic, and Take-Two Interactive all, at one point, said that they were brainstorming ways to add NFTs into their games.
Unfortunately for studios salivating at the idea of getting in on the crypto action, players largely revolted against it. Most plans for NFT integration were a disaster .
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