Retrospectiva săptămânii 22 - 28 decembrie

Ultima retrospectivă a anului ne aduce o săptămână liniștită, fără știri, doar cu retrospective, articole interminabile despre Disco Elysium și reduceri la jocuri. La mulți ani tuturor!

Linkuri rapide:

• Știri
• Articole (critică, dev, design)
• Made în România
• Anunţuri şi lansări de jocuri
• Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Epic Games a făcut în ultimul an investiții de 13 milioane de dolari, prin intermediul programului Epic MegaGrants, în 200 de studiouri care crează jocuri și alte aplicații folosind Unreal Engine. ^{(Game World Observer)}

Articole (critică, dev, design)

• How the scourge of cheating is changing speedrunning ^{(Ars Technica)}
• The Walking Sim Is a Genuinely New Genre, And No One Fully Understands It ^(Vice)
• The man who made Wolfenstein ^(Polygon)
• Radio Ga Ga: An Exploration of Video Game Radio Stations ^(EGM)
• The Many Faces of Trains in Games ^(Fanbyte)
• Luck of the Draw ^{(The Problem Machine)}
• The simulator players who are always on the job ^{(The Face)}
• The Video Game Industry Is Over 50: Who's Keeping Track of Its History? ^{(The Hollywood Reporter)}

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Not-a-review

• Outer Worlds Vs. Outer Wilds: The Comparison We Had To Make ^(Kotaku)
• Mutazione: You Are the Mirror In Front of Me ^(Uppercut)
• Control and The Bomb ^(Uppercut)
• Life Is Strange 2 Is the Antithesis to Gaming’s Obsession with Missing Moms ^(Paste)
• How historically accurate is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? We asked a Classics professor ^(PCGamesN)
• You can’t change the world in Disco Elysium — and that’s why it’s great ^(Polygon)
• How Disco Elysium Mocks Fascists By Letting You Play As One ^(Uppercut)
• I love being a trash disaster in Disco Elysium ^(Polygon)

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Industrie

• After the Fact: John Staats on Storytelling in World of WarCraft ^(Shacknews)
• Facebook: Mobile gaming is going tribal and global ^{(VentureBeat)}
• How a ‘total accident’ led to Garry’s Mod’s funniest feature and 15 years of twisted success ^{(PC Gamer)}

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Istorie, retrospectivă

• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary has so much to teach modern games ^(RPS)
• History Lesson: The consoles that ‘failed’ ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}

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Retrospectiva anului

Jocuri

• Eurogamer’s Games of the Year 2019t ^(Eurogamer)
• Ars Technica’s best games of 2019 ^{(Ars Technica)}
• Jason Schreier's Top 10 Games Of 2019 ^(Kotaku)
• GamesBeat Rewind: 2019’s biggest stories ^{(VentureBeat)}
• The 10 Best Buried Treasures Of 2019 ^{(Buried Treasure)}
• Our highest review scores of 2019 ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The hidden gems of PC gaming in 2019 ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The best stuff we wrote about PC gaming in 2019 ^{(PC Gamer)}

Focus

• The hardships of Outward add high stakes to even the smallest journeys ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The RPS Advent Calendar 2019, Dec 24th: Outer Wilds ^(RPS)
• Amid Evil brought back the glorious heavy metal schlock of ‘90s PC shooters ^{(PC Gamer)}

Industrie

• GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020 ^{(VentureBeat)}
• 2019 was the year things got weird for video games ^{(VentureBeat)}

2020

• 6 Leading Game Industry Trends to Watch in 2020 ^(Gamasutra)

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Retrospectiva deceniului

• Anita Sarkeesian looks back at GamerGate ^(Polygon)
• The missed opportunities of the decade ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The most important PC games of the decade ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Horse armor won ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The 2010s were full of video games we’ll gladly revisit for decades to come ^{(Ars Technica)}
• The 2010s: The Defining Chinese Video Games of the Decade ^{(RADII | Culture, Innovation, and Life in today's China)}
• TechRadar face o retrospectivă a principalelor console: ^{(Tech Radar)}
  • Xbox has had a roller coaster of a decade, but the future looks bright with Series X
  • PlayStation ends the decade in victory - and the PS5 feels like a sure thing
  • The Nintendo Switch was a masterstroke in a decade of ups and downs

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Dev, making of, mecanici

• The Race To Create Half-Life 3 ^{(Games Informer)}
• Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents ^{(VentureBeat)}
• Level Design Patterns in 2D Games ^(Gamasutra)

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Design, world-building, artă

• Best Games Architecture of 2019 ^(Unwinnable)

Made în România

• Marius Ghinea, fostul redactor al revistei Level și Nivelul 2, a lansat un site unde va continua să scrie despre jocuri, începând cu un review despre jocul românesc Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure. ^{(leftclickghinea.ro)}
• Creatorii podcastului Joc și Vorbe au publicat o revistă digitală cu review-uri și texte umoristice cu și despre… jocuri. ^{(Facebook Joc și Vorbe)}

Anunțuri şi lansări de jocuri

Lansate

• 23 decembrie: Cthulhu Saves Christmas ^(Steam)
• 27 decembrie: Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions ^(Steam)

Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Steam's best of 2019 ^{(Game World Observer)}

Reduceri și promoții

• Weekend Console Download Deals for Dec. 27: Goodbye 2019 ^(Shacknews)
• Weekend PC Download Deals for Dec. 27: End of 2019 deals ^(Shacknews)
• Here’s 25 great games for $1 or less on sale for the holidays ^{(PC Gamer)}

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