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THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL
THOMAS MCDONALD
THE LIST
8 Ways We’d Fix PC Gaming
THE LIST
8 Ways We’d Fix PC Gaming
THE LIST
Making games look killer on
high-end hardware isn’t an
excuse to ignore
low-end machines.
6
Peggle,
Everyday
Shooter,
and World of
Goo are awesome, but
we want more games
we can pick up, play
for 10 minutes, and
then put down!
7
MORE
ZOMBIES,
FEWER
NAZIS
Give PC gamers some-
thing to do online while
we’re at work wishing
we were playing your
game.
8
5
KEEP US
BUSY
MAKE GAMES
SCALE BETTER
MORE CASUAL
GAMES
4
INNOVATE ON
THE PC
3
FUN CROSS-PLATFORM
SUPPORT
2
RELEASE GAMES WHEN
THEY’RE DONE
Not every game needs to be
a blockbuster; the PC is the
perfect platform for testing
new game designs and game-
play ideas.
We like playing with our Xbox
pals, but don’t cripple the PC
version of a game with the
consoles’ shortcomings.
Spending $50 on a game that
just won’t work sucks.
SOLVE THE
PIRACY PROBLEM
1
#
Don’t punish paying customers with oppressive
copy protection —add features that require a
legit copy of the game!
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