Modern Warfare II‘s Menu Design is the worst User Interface for any piece of technology I have ever seen in my life. I do not exaggerate when I say it made my blood boil, and it falls to the feet of Activision for hiring the much-maligned UI designer behind Hulu. To William Faler (Director of…
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Did Last of Us Part II Deserve Game of the Year? 2020: Gaming in Review
What does it say about the industry to reward The Last of Us Part II? Is it an endorsement of crunch? Back in March, Jason Schreier wrote about an industry problem that surrounds the game. Developer crunch. People working long hours, often unpaid overtime on games that are too long, are announced too early and…
‘Control’ Distances Itself from Remedy Classics
Developer Remedy/ Publisher 505 Games Rating: 4/10 To Control or not to Control, that is the question. It is also a gameplay choice marred in Remedy‘s 4 year development cycle and a change in publisher culture. The result is a surrender to a host of problems from a decades worth of industry game development. Loosely…