We liked Diablo 4 when it released last year, even if we weren't in love with the live-servicey aspects, and it improved a lot in the months that followed. After the latest update, we called it a "phenomenal action RPG." PC Gamer's Top 10 These are the top 10 games from the ...
The latest European Union election patterns unearth a persistent undercurrent, one that charts the ascendancy of far-right factions. The surge in support for far-right parties within the European Union belies a deeper undercurrent reshaping the geopolitical landscape. Contrary to init...
Information in, garbage out. I don't see what the big deal is. A lot of my programs end up doing this by accident. Above we talked about cryptographic functions, which are designed to scramble some information so that it can be unscrambled later by someone with the right key. For contra...
He's attempting to broker peace between the different factions in the West Wing, telling employees that he was hired to manage the staff, not the president. Kelly encouraged National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to make any staffing changes necessary, which resulted in the firing of a top ...
I wasn't one of those people who had played Man O' War back in the day but The Uncharted Seas felt like a great set of rules for playing out naval bouts between various Fantasy factions. I (rather unsurprisingly) went with the Iron Dwarves (pictured above) and whilst the miniatures were...
(one house or two) would likely not get much of anything done at all. The last one certainly didn't -- all they really passed legislatively was another enormous tax giveaway to the wealthy. The squabbling among the various GOP factions torpedoed pretty much everything else. The same ...
The first act of Cyberpunk 2077 concerns the story of a heist gone wrong. While that’s bad for the characters, it’s good for us in the audience. The setbacks and twists in the heist are what kick off the rest of this excellent story. But what if everything had gone to plan? Wh...
Implementing government agencies are subject to a variety of political and economic pressures from competing constituencies and government factions that can result in institutional and economic instability (Engel et al., 2008, Karsenty and Ongolo, 2012). Additionally, most such agencies have limited ...
If we're talking about building this big, lived-in, post-apocalyptic world, that's not very compelling or convincing. This is just one example. Everything is kinda like that. All of the factions and towns are like that, too. Every person is singular in purpose and never is any real ...
politics and capitalism while the later games add a darker tone, a hint of paranoia and an anything-goes mentality. (There are fleshed-out alien sagas in "Fallout 3" and beyond.)