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Postcards from PAX East Final: The Partisans

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Adam Harshberger

by Adam Harshberger During World War 2, a group of Polish underground fighters resisted the Nazi occupation of their homeland, and later, the communist regime of Poland. They fought and died defending what was theirs. On the last day of … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong With Game Reviews?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Joseph Hilgard

What’s wrong with game reviews? I could complain what a useless measure game scores have become, since the current range of 8-10 scores is too restricted to have any meaning. Imagine how difficult it would be to talk about height if everybody’s height was described as a number between eight and ten. Worse, I find that the most interesting games tend to score in about the 85s, so imagine that sometimes people who were 10 feet tall were actually shorter than people who were eight feet tall. Even if the range of scores were better distributed, though, it still seems like the least interesting titles would still rise to the top. Why is that? Continue reading →

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