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2018 in Review: Winners & Losers - Article

This was going to happen one way or another, and because the industry refused to do anything about it of its own accord, someone else has ... had been working 100 hour weeks to make Red Dead Redemptio... read more

Video Game Review: ‘State of Decay 2’

In theory, Undead Labs’ “State of Decay 2 ... its production — we don’t mind a few inconsistencies or even a few crashes. After all, we all laughed at the horrifying pseudo-centaur horse-men GIFs that ... read more

14 Most Disappointing Video Games Of 2018 (So Far)

It's a soulless, cynical attempt to part Mana fans with their cash as fast as possible, but ultimately fails to justify its own existence beyond the obvious business reasons. read more

A Franchise’s Soul: How Do Sequels Channel It (And Still Innovate)?

If players were upset that The Phantom Pain was meant to explain where a second Big Boss came from, then I can’t blame them for hating Metal Gear Survive’s attempt to justify the existence of ... may ... read more

3 Reasons to Get Rid of the Death Penalty

Here are three reasons to get rid of the death penalty. 1. The death penalty is too expensive ... people less expensive that paying for them to serve out life sentences. 2. The death penalty doesn't d... read more

United States War Crimes During the First Persian Gulf War

2. On Saturday, February 29, 1992 in New York City, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, the Commission will publicly present its evidence ... were killed. The Red Crescent Society of Jordan est... read more

The Third Way Is Still Alive

with its British counterpart, suggesting that the ALP’s right wing represents a bastion of Third Way social democracy. Correctly noting the danger of a resurgence of this failed approach, Chiu suggest... read more

Social Media Scuttlebutt Says Microsoft Is Sniffing After Sony Studio

Microsoft has been snapping up mid-sized studios like corporate acquisitions are going out of fashion, and now the social media rumour mill is aflame with speculation that the team in green is about t... read more

Why Nigerians hate Igbo, by Chinua Achebe

He traced the origin of “the national resentment of the Igbo” to its culture that “gave the Igbo man an unquestioned ... adventurous spirit of the Igbo was a boon Nigerian leaders failed to recognize ... read more

How to end the filibuster with 51 votes

Because stopping the Senate from considering its own rules would be unconstitutional ... Byrd was even pithier: "This Congress is not obliged to be bound by the dead hand of the past," he said. But fo... read more

America’s Renegade Warfare

It was also the identities of the dead ... justify military operations that turn civilians into combatants, fueling an ever-escalating, ever-spreading cycle of increasingly global violence and chaos. ... read more

Who's Afraid of Howard Schultz? Just About Everyone, and They're Right To Be

Even as he talked forcefully about growing up poor, with parents from the Greatest Generation who failed to participate in the post-war ... The top 0.1%, who'd pay my #UltraMillionaireTax, own about t... read more