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The video game industry is miserable, but some people are trying to make it fun again
Videogames are making more money than ever, but in 2025, everyone I know who’s livelihood depends on the industry in any capacity feels some degree of doomed. But maybe it's not all bad. Maybe we just need a new perspective on the hobby. Here are some things that might help.
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The Switch 2 is coming! And these games might be there for launch
Many are gearing up for 2025 to be the worst year of their lives, but for a number of wide-eyed nerds out there, the pending announcement of a new Nintendo console has latched onto their future orientation like a benign parasite, taking up any space where pessimism would otherwise reside.
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2020
2020 sucked for a lot of people, and I’m of no exception. I don’t want to make a competition out of it or throw some pity party, but it was an incredibly trying period for me. The tribulations have followed into this year, but I continue to make an effort to just keep moving on. As such, the Game Complaint…
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2017
The first year of Game Complaint Department's (before it was Maximum Utmost) Game of the Year "awards." I should have come up with a dumber, flashier title. I can't believe I've been running this site since 2017. Really, what the hell? I still feel like I'm new at this.
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Opinion – Why the Ataribox Doesn’t Deserve Your Hype
A crude early article that was, at the time, at least reasonably accurate. Atari would later change course entirely, but when this article was published, they were rather reprehensible. Enclosed are some thoughts about the then-impending launch of the "Ataribox," which would later launch as the Atari VCS.
