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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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