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All In: Disco Sets the Stakes

Game Industry News

Initially, a bit stumped, Owo discovers a fighting ring and persuades Burnham to let her go fight for money. 10C has been mining boronite, and everyone concludes that 10C will see the destruction of the mining mechanism as an act of war. Given how advanced 10C is, that would be a war the Federation could not win.

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Top GBA Games by Nintendo (2023 Update)

Game Designing

While the fighting genre that was popular in the 1980s had faded, this Double Dragon Advance version hearkened back to those times, but in the 3D era. With new tracks and a variety of game modes, players had the ability to alter driving mechanics and even tweak their vehicles so they were more realistic. Final Fight One.

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Tower Pop seeks to reinvent tower defense

Game Daily

But Omega Royale, which began development three years ago, will be a ten-player fight to the death, in which players individually take on waves of enemies, but must also send baddy boosts against human players. But innovating on basic TD mechanics proved to be a challenge. You build your deck based on the way you prefer to play.

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Rebalancing Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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new Quake map: Breakfast Under The Balloons

Radiator Blog

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Guilty Gear Xrd

Sirlin

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. I think this is a really bold move on the developer's part and also the most surprising feature that I've seen in a fighting game in years. Why is it called that?

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Axie Infinity: Infinite Opportunity or Infinite Peril?

Deconstructor of Fun

Also in 2019, land sales began (an extension of the Axie Universe, which we’ll break apart in a later section), the marketplace shifted over to the Loom Network (a Layer 2 on Ethereum), and the card battle game community alpha released. Image: Axie Infinity core gameplay - turn-based RPG + card battler mechanic.