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In the early 80s, all it took to make a game was a computer, some graph paper, and a lot of determination.
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People make games, a fact that Asha Sharma and the ghouls running Xbox sure seem to want you to forget
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This early advertisement for Fallout makes a not-so-subtle dig at gaming’s then-current flavor of the month, the highly streamlined — or, in the view of some, dumbed-down — CRPG Diablo.
Bungie overhauls Marathon from original extraction shooter vision
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