I Play Games So You Don't Have To
Jim ManderA newsletter where I summarize the many games I play, discuss them with others, and post essays on related topics.
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Quake: Dawn of the Machine
In 1996, Quake revolutionized 3D gaming by presenting a fluid, relatively well-optimized true three-dimensional environment for the first time possible. The next decade saw almost every developer alive struggle to make use of this new dimen...
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Like everyone alive, I was at least dimly aware that the biggest game release of this century, hell, maybe all of human history, was just on the horizon. The gaming media is awash in rumor, drama, hype, criminal activity, and very little of...
The Last Salvage Squad
Humanity is destroyed, their sole remaining legacy midst the ruins of civilization the anthropomorphic automatons built in a last-ditch effort against the alien invaders. These plucky survivors have to scrape out a living in the hopes of on...
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Gamer by birth, loser by choice, writer by accident.
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