Did you know the Waypoint UK Podcast is on here, on Waypoint, every second Thursday?
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At each waypoint station, we would look at a GPS, and it would say, "waypoint number 3, waypoint number 4 is three km away," so you would look up in the compass and at the next waypoint there would be an event happening there.
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Find all Waypoint podcasts on this website, right here, including the twice-a-week Waypoint Radio.
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When I started at Waypoint (only true Waypoint fans will remember), Breakfast & Battlegrounds was our almost daily stream.
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Of course, the US side of Waypoint runs its own podcast, Waypoint Radio, which runs twice per week.
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Waypoint High School Fanfic: The ARG that Stumped Detective Pikachu There was one ARG that stumped everyone at Waypoint High.
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With much of the Waypoint crew out today, we have an extra special bonus episode of Waypoint Radio for you!
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The I.F.R. route from Myrtle Beach to Princeton proceeded northeast from waypoint to waypoint and not at all on a beeline.
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Waypoint High's Band Played the Best Game Soundtracks of 2016 The Waypoint High School Band picked the best soundtracks of the year.
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Waypoint High Fanfic: Last Song for Salter and Rhodes Waypoint High's Junior ROTC Military Ball has more drama than the prom itself.
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Evan previously worked with Waypoint on documentaries like our behind-the-scenes look at Superhypercube and our Waypoint Presents episode on Magic: The Gathering.
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The first episode of Currently Untitled Waypoint Rewatch Podcast That You Should Definitely Help Us Name will drop into your normal Waypoint Radio feed.
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Something I've long wanted to do, since way before Waypoint was Waypoint, was take a video game renowned for its memorable soundtrack and switch it.
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Fanfic: Notes on the History and Surrounds of Waypoint High Writer Aevee Bee gives us insight into the strange world and environment of Waypoint High.
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"Waypoint continues to recognise and value Stallergenes Greer as a leader in the development and marketing of allergy immunotherapy treatments (AIT)," Waypoint said in a statement.
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Equity owners of Waypoint include Soros' Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd, Dell's MSDC Waypoint Investors, LLC, and private equity firm Cartesian Capital Group, according to a public filing.
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Waypoint 101 is our new, semi-regular podcast where Waypoint editors play through an old game, maybe one we've always wanted to get around to, and discuss it.
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On Waypoint Radio, we briefly touched on some of the games the Waypoint crew is playing, as we begin to consider our candidates for game of the year.
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Listen to the most recent episode of Waypoint 101, on Fortnite, right here: And so, Mad Max becomes May's game for Waypoint 101, our semi-regular podcast, forum thread, and streaming series where our editors and you, the Waypoint community play through a game we missed or would like to revisit.
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The Waypoint Radio crew discusses what they want out of sequels, the shift in story focus in Pokemon Sword and Shield, and answer listener questions on today's Waypoint Radio.
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You can find the whole Waypoint UK/VICE Gaming podcast archive on Soundcloud, to roll back the years; and every podcast we've put out at Waypoint lately on this very website.
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The Waypoint Radio crew discuss what they think is essential to the BioShock formula, the new Super Mario Maker 2 update, and answer listener questions on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Anecdotal evidence pointed out by Waypoint suggests that's already happening.
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His articles have appeared in Waypoint, Vice, Playboy and Slate.
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You can subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes.
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Waypoint: Building on that, what was the reaction from fans?
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We'll be back Monday for your regularly scheduled Waypoint Radio!
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Waypoint: Can you talk me through some of your process?
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Waypoint: Do you remember the first tree you worked on?
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The next Waypoint UK Podcast is live on July 27.
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We discuss this complicated issue on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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The last review I wrote for Waypoint was for BOXBOY!
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Waypoint has covered megagames before, but this one is unusual.
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Or try out an episode or two of Waypoint Radio!
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Subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast—new episodes are live every fortnight—on iTunes or Stitcher, download or stream it via the player below, and find every Waypoint podcast on the site itself here.
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Here's what's coming up on the Waypoint UK Podcast: Thursday April 6th: Mike and Waypoint regular Kate Gray are joined by Mode 7 Games to talk about the forthcoming Frozen Synapse 2 and Tokyo 42.
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Up for discussion: Kate's new column for Waypoint, Kiss and Tell.
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Waypoint: What prompted you to make a character who sells jars?
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We're trying something different with the Friday episodes of Waypoint Radio.
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At the exact moment their heads touched, I took another waypoint.
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Your Monday episode of Waypoint Radio is finally here—on Wednesday.
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That was my sad realization on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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You can also subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes.
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"I think this needs to be my Waypoint," says Austin Walker.
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Waypoint: Why remove certain elements from the ending, like the catalyst?
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Wait, what is FORMULA 1 RACING doing on a Waypoint podcast?
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Austin Walker, EIC: Wind Waker Gannondorf (see Waypoint Radio, Episode 20).
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It's a big week for Waypoint Radio: Rob Zacny's in town!
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Which we choose to highlight at Waypoint is its own statement.
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In fact, I'm ordering this now, Waypoint Conker is coming soon!
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You can also subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes, check out previous episodes on Soundcloud (including the original VICE Gaming podcasts), and listen to many archived Waypoint podcasts from the UK and US here.
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Investment bank UBS advised Waypoint on the deal while Evercore advised Stallergenes.
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Waypoint was unaware of their roles on this game prior to publication.
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Waypoint has written about labor numerous times before—here, here, here, here.
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Things are a little bit different on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Waypoint, a fee-only firm, doesn't use such tests with its clients.
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We talk a lot about guilty pleasures and "trashcan eclairs" on Waypoint.
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We discuss this and much more on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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"For Botolo, the systems at play are very simple," Snyder told Waypoint.
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Thanks for supporting Be Good and Rewatch It and everything Waypoint does!
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Waypoint: Was there a specific moment this idea came into your head?
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This week, we are ecstatic to welcome Gita Jackson onto Waypoint Radio!
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Dishes at Waypoint, which opened in August, are both contemporary and comfy.
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Knowing that Waypoint would cease operation as an independent vertical was tough.
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" And what she said was really crucial: "Get to the first waypoint.
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Article continues after the video below Watch Waypoint tackle another RPG altogether.
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So what the hell should I play during this trip Waypoint readers?
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The next episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast will be a little romantic, coming to the internet this side of Valentine's Day, with guests Kate Gray (Waypoint, the Guardian, Kotaku) and Pete Donaldson (Absolute Radio, The Football Ramble).
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God and Waypoint aren't done with you yet, Mr. Darcy and Lizzie Bennett!
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The game lets you select one quest and one waypoint at a time.
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Waypoint, as a site, isn't coming up with an overall top 10 list.
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After all, isn't this why the Waypoint launch stream began with the game?
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Make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Monday for the next episode.
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On last Friday's episode of Waypoint Radio, we talked about this at length.
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Waypoint: What inspired you to become a game designer in the first place?
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Waypoint was at the event, photographing the action and soaking up the atmosphere.
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Streaming will be me (hi), alongside Waypoint contributors Kate Gray and Sayem Ahmed.
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Waypoint: This mod goes far beyond swapping texture or importing a character model.
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Waypoint: It's been a long time since the Duct Tape mod—13 years!
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Waypoint: I'm guessing you must have a tree that is a particular favorite?
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Waypoint: Have you noticed anything unexpected about the way people use the mod?
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Names like American Residential Properties, Colony American Homes, Starwood, Waypoint and Silver Bay.
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I like to think Waypoint is still around, a spectre haunting the discourse.
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Almost halfway through the year, I made a tough decision: I left Waypoint.
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Make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Friday for the next episode.
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Why not share your thoughts on the 13th Doctor on the Waypoint forums.
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Make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Monday for the next episode.
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Find all previous UK podcasts—both Waypoint and VICE Gaming—on Soundcloud here.
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Repeatedly during the process of reviewing this game, I found my eyes glazing over as I wandered from waypoint to waypoint, crossing off objectives and planning the next step in my journey like I was going down a shopping list.
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Everything was going well with our guest, Waypoint editor-in-chief Austin Walker, too.
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And make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Monday for the next episode.
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If you haven't listened to the first episode of Waypoint 101, it's featured below:
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"There was something crunchy about that experience," Chung said in a previous Waypoint article.
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And make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Monday for the next episode.
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Waypoint High School Fanfic: Hammer & Pencil Did you learn anything in class this year?
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Header illustration by Cara McGeeWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 22 Yearbook.
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Waypoint: There were certain communities, especially queer communities, that really loved Life Is Strange .
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After a few days off, I've returned to Waypoint Radio with Rob and Austin.
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The next Waypoint UK Podcast will be live on this site on May 18th.
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Thanks to Skyridge on the Waypoint forums for the thread that inspired the topic!
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Header Illustration by Cara McGeeWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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Header illustration by Erica LahaieWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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It's been verified by a number of other publications with early access, including Waypoint.
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Watch more, from Waypoint: We don't live in the world that Donna wished for.
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Header illustration by Sunless DesignWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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Let's be clear: Plenty of people at Waypoint High School have already invented stuff.
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In episode 181 of Waypoint Radio, we get very excited about good game tutorials.
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But Kingdom Hearts III isn't the only thing the Waypoint staff's been playing recently.
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Waypoint granted the employees anonymity to speak about issues that could impact their employment.
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Above: Header by Janine HawkinsWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 203 Yearbook.
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Many of us at Waypoint were convinced it was an intentional reference to goatse.
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Waypoint: How much research was involved in trying to make the mod historically accurate?
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And make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Friday for the next episode.
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Header illustration by Gavin SpenceWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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Header illustration by Erica LahaieWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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And make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Friday for the next episode.
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Why is this not simply a waypoint on the way through the hype cycle?
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When I came back, I checked in on what I'd missed, here at Waypoint.
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VICE Gaming is now Waypoint – come and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and more.
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On this late-but-great edition of Waypoint 101, Austin and Rob are joined by regular Waypoint freelancers Cameron Kunzelman and Dante Douglas for a deep dive on Mad Max, Avalanche's 2015 open world game based on the post-apocalyptic, car-crazed world.
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Landing a job at Waypoint came as a complete surprise, and I want to thank the entire Waypoint crew, past and present, for making me feel welcome and supported as I found my way in an industry that was mostly foreign to me.
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We discuss the delays, The Outer Worlds politics, and more on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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At Waypoint Radio's live panel, there was an audible "Oooooh" when I passed this on.
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We ran a piece on Waypoint not so long ago about Nintendo not allowing this.
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Cory Barlog: I read through that one, and I was like "God…" Waypoint: It's heartbreaking.
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Make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Monday for our first podcast of 2018!
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And they do all that in just one recording, making this a true Waypoint achievement.
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Watch the Waypoint team take on Bloodborne's Father Gascoigne right here: I couldn't manage it.
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Waypoint: Was there a particular aspect of this mod that was challenging to put together?
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Waypoint contributor Chris Scullion took the prototype for a test run and came away impressed.
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Game Designer (and Waypoint contributor) Alex Zandra Van Chestein noted this in a tweet yesterday.
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Then we talk to Waypoint about what Buddhist monks in Thailand think about video games.
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For the next 36 hours, the Waypoint community will take over, while we, uh, sleep.
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We're still figuring out what Waypoint should stream, so if you have any ideas, holler!
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Waypoint: So, in the world of The Last Night , most people don't have to work.
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Header illustration by Sophia Foster-DiminoWelcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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Waypoint: Why did Fallout—and specifically New Vegas —make sense for Hearts of Iron IV?
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Watch more, from waypoint: Why was it important to make Mario travel across the world?
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We discuss the entire Nintendo Direct, Gears 5, and more on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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Open Thread is where Waypoint staff talk about games and other things we find interesting.
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They're also a waypoint for Central American migrants who have paid their own way north.
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Many of the city's industrial warehouses originally served as a waypoint where shippers stored cargo.
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They recently dropped a new image that has the Waypoint Radio crew's imaginations running wild.
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It was one of my favorite things I did at Waypoint, even if my itch.
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Check out our full Waypoint Radio interview above, and our Battlegrounds matches below: Have thoughts?
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Head over to their website here to watch the livestream, and follow Waypoint on Twitter.
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Watch more, from Waypoint: ARMS suggests Nintendo has taken cues from the reaction to Splatoon.
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Most discussion about video games is about what everyone's playing right now, even at Waypoint.
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Last week, Waypoint Radio's special guest Adam Conover made a request: Make the Friday podcast longer.
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Related, on Waypoint: A No Bullshit Conversation with the Authors Behind The Witcher and Metro 2033.
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Above: Header illustration by Gavin Spence Welcome to the Waypoint High School Class of 2016 Yearbook.
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Humans as we know them are just one morphological waypoint on the long road of evolution.
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It's not true until you record a podcast about it, but yes: Natalie is leaving Waypoint.
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This year's experts include entrepreneurs and investors from UBS, Waypoint Capital, VI Partners and Beyond Investing.
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All-in-one drone management app Kittyhawk has added yet another feature: multi-waypoint automated flights.
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A notice of the SEC probe was also included in a Starwood Waypoint filing on Wednesday.
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Another colleague is then responsible for driving the load to the next waypoint, and so on.
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"Mini Metro has proven one very important thing," said Walker in an email interview with Waypoint.
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So I equipped my character with extra lantern fuel, opened my map, and set a waypoint.
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On Waypoint Radio 190, Danielle, Rob, and Patrick look at the image of the game developer.
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We discuss Afterparty, Google Stadia, Pokemon Sword and Shield, and more on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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Waypoint: Dark Souls shipped with mouse support on PC, but obviously it wasn't right for everyone.
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Waypoint/VICE has already profiled Zoë Quinn's experiment with the genre, code name "Project Tingler", here.
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Waypoint: It's one thing to be upset and, say, complain on a message board or Twitter.
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Waypoint looks beyond the press and product cycles, with a focus on the people and community.
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Because they make me feel, as Waypoint Editor In Chief Austin Walker might say, a way.
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Thank you for sticking with me and with Waypoint, through everything we've done this past year.
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You can find the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes, and find every episode archived on Soundcloud.
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Waypoint: Starting at the beginning, who or what got you interested in world building and architecture?
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I pay pretty close attention to what people think about Waypoint and what we do here.
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In our latest Waypoint 101 excursion, Patrick, Rob, and Austin tackle the grim London of Zombi.
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The Waypoint Radio crew discuss this, GDC's cancellation, and (of course) politics on this week's episode.
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We stopped this week's Waypoint Radio dead in its tracks to watch the brand new trailer.
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We discuss the opening moments of Disco Elysium and more on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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One game announced at The Game Awards left the Waypoint Radio crew with an urgent need.
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That location has made it a crucial waypoint for undersea cables, which transmit data between continents.
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Today on Waypoint Radio, we talk about completionism—playing games so much, you plumb their secrets.
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It's fantastic, and hey, some of the folks in the greater Waypoint community think so too.
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Shares of Starwood Waypoint rose as much as 7 percent to hit a record high of $35.96.
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And if you're a Waypoint Discord or Forum user, everything is continuing as-is in those places.
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I've written about Moor several times for Waypoint, at different points in his tireless and unsuccessful journey.
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Using the Waypoint and TapFly features serves up buttery smooth movements without touching the sticks at all.
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Be sure, too, to subscribe to the twice-weekly Waypoint Radio podcast, hosted by our stateside staffers.
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Waypoint High Fanfic: The Meanest Girls It's all about Amelie and Emily, now that Victoria has graduated.
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We tackle this and many more questions raised by our listeners on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Last year, I wrote an essay for Waypoint about how learned vulnerability transformed my view of games.
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Listen to our thoughts on the Last of Us Part II demo on Waypoint Radio right here.
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I asked the other Waypoint staff to meditate on this mystery and come back with a theory.
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We wanted to do that too… but we also wanted to offer the Waypoint spin on it.
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He kept strange hours, only coming home as a waypoint during the busiest times of the year.
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Former Electronic Arts employee Manveer Heir questioned the publisher's strategy in an interview with Waypoint last month.
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More recently, his "100 Games in 5 Years" project was profiled by Patrick Klepek here at Waypoint.
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Waypoint: All three of your books are stories about young people who are probably growing slightly older.
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And no episode of Waypoint Radio would be complete without a thorough trip to The Question Bucket.
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Talk about the very best that the App Store's had to offer over on the Waypoint forums.
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It's how Waypoint ended up with pitches that played up the game's representation of Berlin's queer scene.
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Waypoint: Forced labor camps are no joke—they were brutal, awful constructs that often resulted in death.
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Waypoint: Prison Architect has cute, cartoonish graphics, which seem to go against the idea of a gulag.
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When we announced Waypoint, I wrote that we wanted to investigate how and why people play games.
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After a long day of putting together the set, the Waypoint team went out for family dinner.
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Plenty of people, including some at Waypoint, loved what Hello Games shipped in 2016, warts and all.
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We discuss the Zeffo, Apex Legends newest season, and Outer Wilds on this week's episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Mental Health Bar is Waypoint contributor Joe Donnelly's regular series on games, mental health, and their complex intersections.
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Subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes, and catch up with archive episodes on the site here.
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This Gateway could serve as waypoint for astronauts to live and do research, according to the space agency.
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But here in this week's Guide to Games, Waypoint EIC Austin Walker says they all have it backwards.
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Blanding is a waypoint for visitors traveling between Denver, southern Utah&aposs national parks and the Grand Canyon.
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Games Made Violence Meaningful in 2016 2016's shooters inspired Waypoint High's Paintball Club to think and reflect.
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Waypoint High's Saturday Morning Detention 2016's disappointments and hottest messes need to face up to disciplinary action.
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"Defunding the NEH would be like firebombing Yellowstone National Park," says Dr. Rosner in an interview with Waypoint.
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We'll be back with the second (and final) episode of Waypoint 101's analysis of Binary Domain soon.
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Heck, Dragon's Dogma is the game that Austin wrote about when we re-launched VICE Gaming as Waypoint.
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Mental Health Bar is Waypoint Contributor Joe Donnelly's regular series on games, mental health, and their complex intersections.
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The podcast has been silent for the past week, thanks to the launch of Waypoint, but we're back!
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After the demo, Waypoint sat down with David Cage to chat a little bit about what we'd seen.
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But for the next week, you can also think of me as the Dean of Waypoint High School.
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But here we are: the new Waypoint UK Podcast is 60 minutes in the company of Ian Livingstone.
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But the most important thing I did was design the official car of the underground Waypoint Racing team.
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In order to keep tabs on history, however, Waypoint has purchased both the SouljaGame Console and SouljaGame Handheld.
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Choices. This is why ZombiU—called Zombi on non-Wii U platforms—is our next Waypoint 101 game.
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Here's one big change: we're only recording a single episode for each Waypoint 101 entry in the future.
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Gamers can even scan a QR code to connect their arcade gameplay with the online Halo Waypoint service.
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With the 200th episode of Waypoint Radio behind us, we turn back to our roots: The Question Bucket.
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Waypoint: There was no greater controversy among the Mass Effect community than the way the last game ended.
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Article continues below On a recent episode of Waypoint Radio, we trashed the new single from Taylor Swift.
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At least that's what I, Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker, and Fullbright co-founder Steve Gaynor believe.
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We talked about it a bit on Waypoint Radio yesterday, but I can't put down The Last Guardian.
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Fred Tuomi, the current chief executive of Starwood Waypoint, will be the chief executive of the combined company.
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On a day when a nervous stock market declined, shares of both Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint surged.
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We discuss the early hours of Indivisible in depth, and much more, on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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I don't know that Waypoint happens if I don't go to E3 that first year with Giant Bomb.
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You can watch Waypoint Presents tonight either through your cable or satellite provider, or you can catch watch online.
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You'll also keep hearing our voices on Waypoint Radio and can follow us on our established social media handles.
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This is a similar tactic to what Danielle Riendeau, managing editor of Waypoint and student of MMA, told Motherboard.
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But as Danielle Riendeau points out at Waypoint, they also make it totally impossible to excuse joining their side.
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Harrod (who previously worked for Waypoint, VICE's gaming site) makes The Dragon Prince community feel more cohesive than most.
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Waypoint High's Horror Club Traded Out Jump Scares for Existential Terror The Horror Club got very serious this year.
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On today's Waypoint Radio, Danielle and Rob talk about games that really capture the essence of activities they love.
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Given the new autonomous features available, however, you probably won't rely on this mode for anything but waypoint navigation.
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We've been pretty vocal about our enjoyment of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild here at Waypoint.
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You might know me as the editor-in-chief of Waypoint, VICE's website about video games and games culture.
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It also offers the standard package of autonomous flights modes: takeoff, landing, return to home, waypoint navigation, and orbit.
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This summer, Waypoint sent me to the Detainee Library, to figure out what happened to the games at Gitmo.
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We're finally about set to record the first part of our Waypoint 101 series on Wolfenstein: The New Order.
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It's not our intention at Waypoint High to punch down or drag games that never really had a chance.
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With gaming's fall season in full swing, the Waypoint crew has more than enough to play (and talk about).
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Last year, Waypoint collectively released a statement , as part of a push to change internal VICE policies and culture.
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The Worst First Impression, which was made for New Jam City, the unofficial Waypoint game jam, meets me halfway.
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Whether a game was a commercial success or lost relic, Waypoint covers the culture, passion, and politics of gaming.
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As you can imagine, this has weighed on us at Waypoint, and it's been hard to focus on games.
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I started thinking about this after an interesting tweet by game critic Julie Muncy, who's written for Waypoint before.
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You can also subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes, and catch up with archive episodes on Soundcloud.
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When a publisher sends a game to someone, Waypoint or otherwise, there's no promise they'll write or record anything.
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Its lawyers showed up, and when the judge marked Ellingwood absent, Waypoint was granted a summary judgment for eviction.
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In June 2016, Chisholm told me, she rented a tan-colored ranch house in La Mirada from Waypoint Homes.
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The only person she knew to invite was a fellow tenant of Waypoint Homes, who found her on Yelp.
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Above: members of the Waypoint team play Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective as part of our 72-hour launch stream.
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This week, Waypoint is devoting a substantial portion of our publishing schedule to exploring this part of games culture.
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Starwood Waypoint and American Homes 4 Rent collectively own about 103,000 single-family rental homes in the Houston area.
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Mr. Shakeshaft said this city's central location, transportation network and sheer size made it an attractive waypoint for traffickers.
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When we did this quiz on Waypoint Radio for Rob, he got the "Hardy" nature, but was a Pikachu.
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What had been introduced to me as a homework assignment ended up on my first GOTY list for Waypoint.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: I don't think Sunshine is quite on that level, but it certainly wasn't a misstep.
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After playing Nier: Automata, everyone at Waypoint was ready for another dive into philosophies of the sci-fi mind.
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On last Friday's podcast, we talked about why there hadn't been any coverage of Kingdom Come: Deliverance on Waypoint.
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Waypoint: I understand that Ruby Party was formed as an initiative by Keiko Erikawa to make games for women.
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Invitation Homes stockholders will own about 59 percent of the combined company's stock, with Starwood Waypoint stockholders owning the rest.
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Instead, competitors strive to accurately fly from one waypoint to the next, dropping markers on a target at each one.
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After all, it doesn't matter how many kills you get in a match if you fail to protect a waypoint.
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Players will also be able to log into the game with their gamertag to add their progress on Halo Waypoint.
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Here's a look at all of the custom art—and the words that accompanied it—in our Waypoint High Coverage.
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Unlike Waypoint Radio, this is meant to be a deep dive, with everyone participating having spent time with the game.
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We'll be recording our episode of Waypoint 101 sometime in the back half of August, so you have some time.
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Our colleagues at Waypoint ordered one of them and we can't wait to wedgie them and take it for ourselves.
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Last week, we wrapped up 2016 with Waypoint High's "yearbook" of awesome games, trends, fanfiction, and personal top ten lists.
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Waypoint: It's hard for me to imagine playing Dark Souls with a mouse; a gamepad is ingrained into my mind.
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They dig into the game's world, characters (including... character names) and politics, with a healthy dose of Waypoint forum discussion.
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You can catch up with original episodes of our Waypoint Presents series—which originally aired on Disney XD, right here.
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Most of Waypoint—Danika, Austin, myself, Rob—will convene in Los Angeles in just a few days for E3 2017.
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Alternatively, subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes, find it on Stitcher, or listen to the archives on Soundcloud.
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Watch more, from Waypoint: You see a lot of bodies in Observer—mainly dead ones—mangled and thoroughly messed up.
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As part of an ongoing series at Waypoint, I'm fielding requests from readers about games they were excited to play.
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Through a Google search, he found a private Facebook group of disaffected tenants, now called Tenants of Invitation Waypoint Homes.
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Director David Cage stressed, in an interview with Waypoint in June, that the scene wasn't indicative of the entire game.
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Above: The 'Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty' trailer from E3 2014 Waypoint: New 'n' Tasty was quite the comeback for Oddworld.
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Waypoint, whose name means a stopping point in a journey, is all of these things — and a destination unto itself.
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You deploy, take in the sights (these maps do look beautiful, even on repeated plays), and head towards your waypoint.
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We spend the bulk of today's Waypoint Radio talking about Animal Crossing: New Horizons and all of its new mechanics.
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And it's not to suggest everything we cover at Waypoint is exclusively what the staff is interested in talking about.
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With Lobby 1 in the rearview mirror, team Waypoint heads to a brand new space to podcast: the control room!
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We were honored to collaborate on the "The Future of Tech" Issue for VICE Magazine alongside our colleagues Waypoint and Motherboard.
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More likely they'll set a course for some distant waypoint, perhaps another solar system, to visit, study, or maybe even settle.
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It allows the drone to perform predetermined routes (waypoint based), from takeoff to landing, with many on-flight fail-safe protocols.
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We discuss the differences in approach between Final Fantasy XIV and Destiny 2, and more on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Both can exceed speeds of 40 miles-per-hour and fly almost completely autonomously with tap-to-fly and waypoint functionality.
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At Waypoint Bruno Dias writes that each Battlegrounds live stream is imbued with the pace and tension of a horror film.
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Waypoint High School Fanfic: The Coven If you really want to be a cool girl, you could always join The Coven.
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This speck of land at the mouth of the Gambia river was once a major waypoint of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Once it arrives in Portugal, Solar Voyager will circle its final waypoint until Penny and Sam Soon can go collect it.
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"The inspiration was as much to do with our constraints than anything else," Peter Curry told Waypoint in an email interview.
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I'm glad I did, and equally glad we played a bunch of it on-stream during my first week at Waypoint.
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It's how quickly every MOBA creator jumped on this particular trend that has the Waypoint Radio crew doing a double take.
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All the intelligent flight modes found on the Phantom 3 — waypoint navigation, orbit, follow, and track — are available here as well.
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Carpenter, who recently worked as a systems and missions designer on BattleTech, told Waypoint via email he's resigning over the allegations.
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Related, on Waypoint: Discussing 'The Last Guardian' with Director Fumito Ueda The magic comes when player agency is layered on top.
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Waypoint: How'd you find your way to Turbine, and what was the state of Asheron's Call when you came on board?
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While it used to be that the ultimate marker of a relationship was going Facebook official, there is a new waypoint.
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In his stead is Waypoint Radio's producer, Tim Barnes, who hasn't played a game since Jedi Power Battles on the Dreamcast.
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As part of an ongoing series at Waypoint, I've been fielding requests from readers about games they were excited to play.
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We want to make sure Waypoint 101 has more regularity in 2018, and as part of that, we're changing the approach.
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Waypoint: At this point, Dark Souls is several years old, with most of the community having moved on to newer games.
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This is why we launched Waypoint (just over a week ago!) with a mission statement that implicitly positioned us as hopeful.
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On Waypoint Radio, I said that was partially because the game does have the occasional cuts in the action mentioned above.
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We talk about the Iceborne beta in more depth on this episode of Waypoint Radio, and a lot more beyond that.
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With Austin and Danielle both on vacation, the ol' Waypoint Radio microphones are only pointed at yours truly and Rob today.
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And if you have to ask why we're promoting this on Waypoint, well, you picked a pretty great day for that.
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It's a top-down, action roguelike that was brought to my attention by Waypoint freelancer Jack de Quidt earlier this year.
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Breath of the Wild is something we are (almost) all enjoying here at Waypoint, and Austin has beaten the game before.
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Obama's policy is a waypoint not to a sharing of the hegemony but a hegemony of one, and that in Tehran.
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Rob and Austin both checked out the expansion, and Rob interviewed Harebrained Schemes' Mitch Gitelman on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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We discuss Dreams, Rob's trip to catch an early look at Baldur's Gate 3, and more on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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And Heavy Metal brought some exceptional character to the machines themselves, as we detailed in a recent episode of Waypoint Radio.
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We discuss Disco Elysium's narrative focus, the design arc of Rocksteady's Batman games, and more on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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The Unifying, Monstrous Hopefulness of 'Inside' | Waypoint Kaitlin Tremblay finds a message about feminist solidarity in a lost boy's frightening fate.
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Download the remake here Follow Ed on Twitter VICE Gaming is now Waypoint – come and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and more.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: There weren't many customization options available from the jump, but I immediately found what I was looking for.
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To celebrate our transition from VICE Gaming to Waypoint, our staff headed to New York to play 643 games in 72 hours.
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The ViewRanger GPS app for trekking provides route information, navigation guidance, altitude graphs, location data and the distance to the next waypoint.
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Unlike Liquid Robotics, they can't build a fleet or set up a waypoint halfway to Lisbon where the craft can be serviced.
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"Our initial focus was on the more eastern parts of the Western Front, such as the Argonne and Vosges," Hoebe told Waypoint.
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A waypoint is anything in the world that we orient ourselves by, something that we look to for guidance on a journey.
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Waypoint: The most striking thing about today's Detroit: Become Human demo is in one of the ways it differed from last year's.
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If you've followed my work at Waypoint, you know that I'm endlessly interested in games that take a long time to finish.
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On May 2nd at 12:00 pm ET, the Waypoint staff will gather on the East Coast to stream for 36 hours.
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After 36 hours, we'll pass the baton to the Waypoint community, who, like last time, will continue forward for another 36 hours.
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"We want people to have the agency to choose how they navigate and how they want to experience it," Elayat told Waypoint.
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Look no further than this month's contributions from Waypoint, VICE's home for gaming culture, built to explore how and why we play.
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It was a long weekend in the US, so the Waypoint Crew has come back with plenty of games to chew on.
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To use the term I stumbled into on Friday's episode of Waypoint Radio, Destiny became a sort of "maintenance game" for me.
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Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker takes a look at the game and its bold vision in this week's Guide to Games.
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After the waypoint nearest Trenton, the I.F.R. route went north before doubling back for Princeton, adding about fifty miles to the journey.
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A few months later, Starwood Waypoint bought Colony American Homes in an all-stock deal that valued Colony American at $1.5 billion.
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The tragedy sparked a backlash against Xanax in the rap community, but nevertheless marked a waypoint in the drugs we are taking.
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We don't typically cover game trailers here at Waypoint, but this was too good not to touch on, just a little bit.
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Okay, now imagine a second version of Fantasy America: One where the Waypoint staff teams up to take on an evil necromancer.
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Starting today, Waypoint is joining forces with VICE's incredible network of sites, and together we're merging into a single destination: the new VICE.com.
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This Maze of Zagor was Jackson's idea, Livingstone told me when he was a guest on the Waypoint UK Podcast in late 2016.
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On today's episode of Waypoint Radio, we are joined by rapper Open Mike Eagle, fresh off his tour with fellow musician/nerd Sammus.
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We listen to a lot of music at Waypoint, and now we're really happy to be able to share that music with you!
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We listen to a lot of music at Waypoint, and now we're really happy to be able to share that music with you!
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In an interview with Waypoint, Crawford said he originally planned to sneak Frog Fractions 2 out by August, 2015, but missed that deadline.
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In Episode 179 of Waypoint Radio, Rob, Patrick, and Danielle discuss the games that we may have gotten a little *too* obsessed with.
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In an interview with Waypoint, Persona 5 director Katsura Hashino briefly discusses the allure of school as it regards to the series's settings.
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No one's looking forward to the weekend more than the staff of Waypoint, who've slogged through colds and the flu all week long.
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"Pharmercy" May Not Be Canon, But They Are Waypoint High School's Cutest Couple I almost cried when we announced Pharmercy as cutest couple.
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Last week, Waypoint focussed on the intersections between gaming and prison in the US, with our At Play in the Carceral State series.
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And to prove that it's easy, I've enlisted Waypoint editor-in-chief Austin Walker to follow his own paintings to match my prompts.
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On Today's Waypoint Radio, we start out talking about games like Six Ages and Prey: Mooncrash, along with the true cinematic gem Skybound.
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Waypoint explored this issue in a look at another game, the overtly homophobic Gay World, which is still listed on Steam even now.
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That's to say nothing of the game's humor, which, as we discussed on Waypoint Radio yesterday, is the definition of hit-or-miss.
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As we chiseled marble monuments to our Pantheon of Games, the Waypoint team also recorded special playthroughs of some of our favorite games.
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The Final Station We discussed this small story-based apocalypse thriller on Monday's Waypoint Radio, so I won't go on and on here.
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You can find out more about the space station-set adventure, out on the 53nd, in this Waypoint interview with designer Steve Gaynor.
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Before we assault the fortress, before we start the race, before we leap from one star system to another, we set a waypoint.
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Traditionally, FanAI has focused on more static information including social and purchasing data, while Waypoint worked to gather digital movements of the audience.
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To celebrate the launch of WAYPOINT, VICE's new gaming website, we decided to do a massive, 72 hour long livestream over Halloween weekend.
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In today's Guide to Games, Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker makes a bold claim: that Morrowind is the very best Bethesda game.
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Suffice it to say that if you're here on Waypoint then there's a pretty good chance that Offworld was or is your jam.
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In less than a week, Waypoint will be kicking off a ridiculous 72-hour livestream to celebrate the launch of our new website.
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While didn't realize it at the time, that's the question we chewed on during this nearly two-hour long episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Employees at Riot Games are considering a walkout, and the organization efforts have prompted an internal response from company executives, Waypoint has learned.
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We had a special treat this week at Waypoint HQ, with the whole team in town for meetings, streams, and this very podcast.
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Waypoint: This might seem like a strange question, but your stories are full of dark themes and unsettling stories—cannibalism, murder, death, suicide.
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Ellingwood, however, could hardly distinguish among the various L.L.C.s he paid rent to: Strategic Property Management, Colony American Homes, Starwood Waypoint, Invitation Homes.
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Mr. Marshall sees it as a prototype for rejuvenating the Mexican border city — part artistic community, part commuter waypoint and part gastro-utopia.
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The Waypoint Radio crew discusses Granblue's tutorials, the Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo, and the last week in politics on this week's episode.
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But you're also reading a website like Waypoint, and mostly likely follow video games enough to know Mario Kart 8 was already released.
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Next month: we've the British gaming legend that is Ian Livingstone on the Waypoint UK Podcast, to talk Tomb Raider and Fighting Fantasy.
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We got really close to putting a contract in place, and then the Halo Waypoint website came along and it had become a priority.
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Related, on Waypoint: Why It Took 12 Years to Bring Back 'DOOM' "Well, we knew what we were going to do," John tells me.
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The Waypoint crew is (tall)neck deep in Guerrilla Games' open world action game, Horizon Zero Dawn, and writing to each other about it.
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The helicopter turns, slowly, and then starts to bring us up over the Housatonic River toward the first waypoint, which is to our east.
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But as Waypoint recently argued, copying artists like Ferguson (especially without credit) could still be unethical, even if it turns out to be legal.
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In a throwback to VICE Gaming's New Podcast, aka the old version of Waypoint Radio, it's just me and Austin on the podcast today.
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Although the note now confirms the $2,000 pledge (it apparently did not originally contain the exact figure), Waypoint confirmed the donation with Luckey himself.
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All of this why, ahead of this Saturday's March for Our Lives, Waypoint will be running a handful of stories about guns and games.
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The Members of Waypoint High's Time Travelers Club Offer a Unique Power Fantasy Time travel is tricky, but these characters were up to speed.
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And yet, because it's me and because this is Waypoint, I'm still unsure whether I like this because it's good, or because it's comfortable.
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On Waypoint Radio this week, Austin went on and on aboutloving the new mech-focused game from the developers of FTL, Into the Breach.
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The Waypoint crew is (tall)neck deep in Guerrilla Games' open world action game, Horizon Zero Dawn, and writing to each other about it.
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Waypoint Editor In Chief Austin Walker sat down with several hours of the game this week, and brought home footage to show and tell.
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Though we've tried to find a way to make Waypoint 101 run on a schedule, the bandwidth of Waypoint's staff makes that really tough.
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Our guests on this fortnight's Waypoint UK Podcast are games writers, critics, presenters, all-round games media renaissance types Kate Gray and Andi Hamilton.
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You can look forward to two episodes of Waypoint Radio, including a look back at 2016 and a long trip to The Question Bucket.
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On Waypoint Radio 187, Austin, Danielle, Rob, and Patrick discuss the epic troll Nintendo pulled on Animal Crossing fans in its recent Nintendo Direct.
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I don't think it would be going out on a limb to say that Into the Breach was probably the Waypoint game of 2018.
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The Waypoint crew is (tall)neck deep in Guerrilla Games' open-world action game, Horizon Zero Dawn, and writing to each other about it.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: The possibility of an AI worker in a maintenance role is the cheapest, most efficient answer for corporations like Venturis.
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After the deal closes, Invitation Homes stockholders will own about 59 percent of the combined company's stock, with Starwood Waypoint stockholders owning the rest.
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We discuss the possibilities of a more open Star Wars licence and take a dip into the Question Bucket on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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"We designed the core of the fighting system with strategy in mind," Def Jam: Fight for NY producer Devon Blanchet told Waypoint via email.
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On Waypoint Radio 194, Danielle, Rob, and Patrick talk about games where a major character was enough to pull them through some questionable gameplay.
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When contacted about the report, Capcom told Waypoint it was unaware of the allegations, and was looking into alternative music options for the game.
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Over the last few months here at Waypoint, we've been working behind the scenes on video series, stream ideas, and some major site features.
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Deutsche Bank Securities Inc and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC were financial advisers to Invitation Homes, while Morgan Stanley & Co LLC and Evercore advised Starwood Waypoint.
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Follow Waypoint on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch, and tune in to our 72 hour launch live stream marathon, starting at 12PM ET on October 28th!
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Unlike waypoint based narratives though (where going to one location triggers an event), StoryTrek triggered events depending on how you moved through the space (i.e.
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We zero in on these, and the many other ways that The Division 2 "says something" despite its post-political ambitions in today's Waypoint Radio.
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I had to do some union repping and Patrick had family time today, so Austin, Danika, and Rob took over Waypoint Radio, to great results.
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Join the Waypoint Radio crew as they discuss different readings of its message, the meta-textual casting, and which scenes made them the most anxious.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: Instead of creating a huge, sprawling space with a bunch of things to do in it, worlds are segmented into missions.
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I've profiled longdistance speedrunners at Waypoint in the past, including someone who spent 2100 hours recording a speedrun for the card-based JRPG Baten Kaitos.
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Follow Waypoint on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch, and tune in to our 72 hour launch live stream marathon, starting at 12PM ET on October 28.
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It's taken too long, but the second installment in Waypoint 101, where we revisit old games and have a community discussion about them, is here.
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Along with the help of our co-workers at Motherboard, Waypoint, and the Creators Project, we set out for answers to these questions and more.
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And then we faced another dilemma: we wanted to showcase Resident Evil 7 in VR, but Waypoint is generally full of cowards with weak stomachs.
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And now that Waypoint has its own forum—seriously, go and check out our forum—this seems a fun topic for a breezy Friday discussion.
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"From the start of development [on Breath of the Wild], we wanted to create a large, wide, expansive world," Aonuma told Waypoint earlier in 2017.
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It's all a short, sweet, cyberpunk fever dream, and I'm very glad that frequent Waypoint contributor Cameron Kunzelman passed me the link late this afternoon.
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And as the Waypoint crew expressed in their recent podcast episode on Death Stranding, it's a reason to keep playing this meditative (ok, slow) game.
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These characters aid you in fights, drive you around when you set a waypoint, and even unlock new abilities for themselves when they get kills.
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All of the previous Waypoint UK (and original VICE Gaming) Podcast episodes are archived on Soundcloud, and should be available on your preferred platform, too.
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Article continues after the video below Watch Waypoint play Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective as part of #waypoint72 The next stage is an effective intelligence test.
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In the lead up to this weekend's March for Our Lives, Waypoint is publishing a series of stories this week about gaming's relationship with guns.
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I wrote a Waypoint equivalent of a Super Mario Odyssey review recently, and platformers are a genre I consider myself to be legitimately good at.
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Listen our Waypoint Radio episode about Destiny 2 right here: This reparative quality ended up being the thing that stuck with me most about Destiny.
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The Waypoint crew did an entire podcast on Sea of Thieves (featuring a very special guest!!!), so I'll try not to say too much here.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: The paperclip maximizer has floated around ever since in AI circles, from serious researchers like Bostrom through to more… apocalyptic folks.
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Columbia University and G.I. Partners (on behalf of the California Public Employee's Retirement System) invested $25 million and $250 million in the REIT Waypoint Homes.
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I love working on Waypoint Radio because of this amazing space it fills, a games podcast that is sometimes serious, often hilarious, and always authentic.
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Follow Waypoint on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch, and tune in to our 72 hour launch livestream marathon, starting at 12 PM EST on October 28!
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Follow Waypoint on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch, and tune in to our 72-hour launch livestream marathon, starting at 12 PM EST on October 28!
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I first mentioned my love of Heat Signature on Waypoint Radio back in August, and in the time since, it hasn't gotten any less fierce.
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When Chris Schilling, another Waypoint columnist, ranked all of MK8's tracks for the Telegraph, these came in at two, 16, 11, and first, respectively.
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But lots of people, including lots at Waypoint, fell in love with Max Caulfield and Chloe Price during the first season of Life Is Strange.
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You can listen to the team chat through this new step on today's episode of Waypoint Radio below, or download the episode directly by clicking here.
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Players can scan a QRC code with their phone, which will connect your game progress and stats to your Halo Waypoint account (if you've got one).
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On episode 185 of Waypoint Radio, the full team—Austin, Natalie, Cado, Patrick, Rob, and Danielle—talk about the many games they've been playing and discussing.
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The game itself is awesome, as I mentioned on Waypoint Radio yesterday (though I have to—appropriately—play in short sessions due to a bad wrist).
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We have a very special guest on Waypoint Radio 215: Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything came through to chat about games, comedy, and Nintendo nostalgia!
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Its fighters are clinging on to positions inside the Syrian town of Manbij, a critical waypoint between Raqqa -- the group's administrative headquarters -- and the Turkish border.
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We discuss the new Fire Emblem game, the noir narrative game Night Call, and new deck building roguelike Nowhere Prophet on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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The next Waypoint UK Podcast is live on April 20th, by which point we can go All In on Persona 5 with few fears of SPOILERS.
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FanAI, an audience analysis platform for esports and streaming, is buying New York-based Waypoint Media to improve its analytics tools for esports players and streamers.
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To break it all down, we invited other members of the Waypoint crew into the podcast bunker, including publisher Joel Fowler and social editor Danika Harrod.
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Courtesy of WWE Waypoint is a site about meaning and that's why, for now at least, it's the home of Bruiseday, my weekly pro wrestling column.
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Thursday April 20th: Waypoint contributor Sayem Ahmed joins Mike and Kate to dig into Persona 5 and 2017 so far's amazing array of games from Japan.
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Rob has been knee deep in Endless Space's... uh, universe, as his recounting good old times with the Horatio on Waypoint Radio would have you believe.
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One of the big reasons Waypoint exists was to create a space where it was not only accepted to talk about games and politics, but encouraged.
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Though the election of Donald Trump doesn't have an immediate effect on what we're doing here at Waypoint, it got us thinking about our mission statement.
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A tenant is charged the moment Waypoint or, later, Invitation Homes emails its lawyers to initiate an eviction, whether the company's lawyers do work or not.
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Image courtesy of UbisoftFor the vast majority of people who cannot stand that it's Monday, we have something for you: a new episode of Waypoint Radio.
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And many of these creators are people I have personal and professional relationships with, including Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker, creator of A(s)century.
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Starwood Waypoint, which is in the process of merging with Blackstone's Invitation Homes, estimates about 140 of its homes in Houston were damaged, some very seriously.
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If you've listened to Waypoint Radio before, it's probably no surprise who we prefer, but we've taken the time to discuss their real and material differences.
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We have a few Animal Crossing fans on the Waypoint Radio crew, so of course we had to immediately talk about this week's Animal Crossing Direct.
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We discuss the various implications of the direct and also what we're looking forward to in Animal Crossing: New Horizons on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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We discuss our hopes for the next Batman game, the slow death of E3, and what Pokémon Rob truly embodies on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Waypoint was dramatically transformed, and between the structural changes at VICE and different team members moving on to new endeavors, the future seemed hazy at times.
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All I've ever wanted since coming to Waypoint is to find a reason to have Austin sit down and explain his love for Dark Souls 2.
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Gurnet Point Capital is backed by Waypoint Group, a family office headquartered in Geneva that invests on behalf of biotechnology billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli and his family.
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This past six months couldn't have happened without all of you, and we really want you to be part of what Waypoint is in the future.
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That said, when I streamed Outlast 2 for Waypoint viewers last week, I struggled through some early sections in a way that dampened enthusiasm to keep playing.
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That would be just a waypoint on a path to a double-digit return on equity, a process that could take up to three years, he said.
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Most of what Waypoint covers falls firmly into the video game category; but we've regularly found a place for board and card games, for paper and pencils.
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In one of my first pieces ever for Waypoint, way back in my first week, I talked about how great the Wii U was, as a console.
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Gregg was in charge of the whole waypoint GPS thing, the way we got them from one location to the next in the woods without leading them.
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They've also both contributed to Waypoint/VICE in the past, too, with words, photographs and presenting skills, so it's a treat to have them on the podcast.
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Stream or download the Waypoint UK Podcast below, or subscribe via iTunes, or whatever your podcast provider of choice is, as it's more than likely available there.
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As Kate Gray wrote for Waypoint last year, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, a video game about dads dating other dads, works because it's genuinely wholesome.
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As long as there is a Waypoint, we will continue to investigate difficult subject matter with integrity, offer transparency into the decision making that guides our publication.
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Image courtesy of NintendoAs thousands of Nintendo fans nervously smash F5 on their Amazon order windows, hoping their machines show up, Waypoint Radio squeezed in a podcast.
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There is a "core" group in Riot who's been planning and discussing the walkout, though Waypoint has been unable to determine the exact size of the group.
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Being personally vulnerable is part of building empathy, and that's really what my expanded work at Giant Bomb—and later Kotaku, and now at Waypoint—was about.
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I enjoy working with people, and under Waypoint, we've tried to craft a website with a specific identity: We wear our emotions and politics on our sleeves.
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Before Breath of the Wild stole our adventuring hearts, the robot dinosaurs—and surprisingly affecting storytelling—of Horizon: Zero Dawn dominated many a Waypoint staffer's late winter.
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Here at Waypoint, it's more end-of-year wrap-up in general, because we don't do any Giant Bomb style voting for a definitive top ten list.
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As thousands descend on Boston for PAX East, including a number of folks from Waypoint, don't think that means we'd leave you hanging without a new podcast.
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And make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Friday for the next episode, wherein Austin will have checked out (and possibly played with) Nintendo's new console.
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"You have to prepare for everything," said Charles Young, COO of Starwood Waypoint, standing in front of a Houston home that took in 4 feet of water.
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Invitation Homes said on Thursday it would buy Starwood Waypoint Homes in an all-stock deal that would create a $11 billion U.S. single-family rental company.
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Under the deal, each Starwood Waypoint Homes share will be converted into 1.614 Invitation Homes shares, based on a fixed exchange ratio, Blackstone-owned Invitation Homes said.
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As the game that gave me a much needed emotional vacation during the hectic launch of Waypoint, it earned the number four spot on my 2016 list.
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But ever since Waypoint launched last year, we've been looking for a reason to revisit some our favorite games, especially the forgotten gems others might have overlooked.
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The supply of single-family rental homes is very limited and demand has been increasing, Starwood Waypoint Chief Executive Fred Tuomi said on a conference call with analysts.
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Like much of the internet, it's easy to think this is mostly hyperbole, but after experiencing it first hand, we at Waypoint Radio can confirm they weren't joking.
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We discuss the game and raise questions about it on our forums and then those of us here at Waypoint chat about it across a couple podcast episodes.
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Waypoint High School Dean/Editor-In-Chief Austin Walker said it best in his Dean's List address explaining our entire approach to end-of-year coverage this year.
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Waypoint High Fanfic: Overwatch Dogs Save the Prom It's time for the Overwatch prom, and these young hackers wanted to make sure it was a night to remember.
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As Waypoint columnist Cameron Kunzelman noted in his own piece about the game over at Kotaku, most games that try to be funny are painfully bad at it.
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With E3 2019 behind us, the crew at Waypoint Radio turn their attention to what really matters: The games we played going to and coming from E3 2019.
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Waypoint isn't just our name, it's a guide for us at the site, too, something we can orient ourselves with as we step forward into whatever comes next.
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A federal indictment Waypoint obtained through a court records search accuses the shop owners of importing gambling machines "disguised as arcade games" from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia.
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In a recent essay, Waypoint contributor Nico Deyo stressed Mercy does break up the flow of the more offensive, typical characters, which could be a source of frustration.
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And while the crew at Waypoint is scrambling to finish up all of their work, especially for our upcoming game of the year features, we managed to podcast.
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Mike was, sadly, let go as part of a recent VICE internal reorganization, but Waypoint wouldn't exist without all the hard work he's put in over the years.
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On today's episode of Waypoint Radio, Rob, Patrick, Austin and Danielle gather to discuss games that attempt the herculean task of ending a series on a satisfying note.
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Niantic tells us that they've seen 27 million waypoint locations submitted by users so far, with 26 million having been reviewed, and 9.4 million approved and in-game.
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Several large single-family rental real estate investment trusts, namely American Homes 4 Rent and Starwood Waypoint, own hundreds of homes in Houston and some sustained significant damage.
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"Hi Patrick I'm a big fan of waypoint and a lifelong sonic fan that is very happy with how forces came out," wrote one Twitter user in response.
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"We're also aware there may be an upcoming walkout and recognize some Rioters are not feeling heard," said Roseboro, in a copy of the message obtained by Waypoint.
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Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau will be back with us for the next episode, so it's back to basics with Waypoint Radio: me and Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker.
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Fortunately, Ellingwood had learned from his high-conflict divorce to document everything, and after the sheriff reviewed his emails with Waypoint, he told Ellingwood to get a lawyer.
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In fact, I talked about this friction on Monday's Waypoint Radio: But friction also runs through the game's design ethic and through much of my play experience, too.
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Waypoint: As someone with such a long history with the Zelda series, how rewarding and heartwarming does it feel seeing how massively anticipated Breath of the Wild is?
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Watch Waypoint Editor-in-Chief (and huge cyberpunk fan) Austin Walker count the ways that Syndicate hacked the way into his heart in this week's Guide to Games.
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It's a packed episode of Waypoint Radio this week, as Austin, myself, Rob, and Danielle embrace the warming weather to spend the hour talking about storytelling in games.
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This week on Waypoint Radio, we discuss Kentucky Route Zero's final act, the new Kingdom Hearts DLC, and how Nintendo tends to make baffling choices with their franchises.
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With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up for many, including everyone at Waypoint, we figured it was a good time to get our hands dirty in The Question Bucket.
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Back at E3, in the wake of The Last Night, the Waypoint staff got into a long conversation about the history, politics, and purpose of the cyberpunk genre.
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Late last year, we tried to run a Waypoint UK Live Stream from London—the first of its kind—only to have our plans ruined by a power outage.
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Which is why, joining us today are Waypoint columnist Cameron Kunzelman and games academic Michael Lutz, the co-hosts of Game Studies Study Buddies over on the Ranged Touch.
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It's something we talked about a bit on Waypoint Radio, concerning the moral complexities of the drug trade, left-wing guerrilla groups and governmental powers in real-life Bolivia.
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However, when Waypoint asked the Entertainment Software Association—the game industry's most prominent lobby group—whether it would oppose cuts to the NEA and NEH, representatives responded with caution.
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During those early games especially, when Team Waypoint was trying to figure out how the hell the sails worked, I felt like I was having my Last Starfighter moment.
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Then, just as I was preparing to publish this story on Waypoint, he sent me an email with some unexpected news: the market for leopard masks had changed dramatically.
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When we read the box quote that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was an "open-air adventure" here at Waypoint, we rolled our eyes a little.
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Also available for your listening distraction is Waypoint Radio, hosted by our stateside staffers—check out our podcasts page for recent episodes (including a very detailed Nier: Automata spoilercast).
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On Waypoint Radio, we said that the new Star Wars game channels the Dark Souls and Metroid games, complete with bonfires an interconnected map with blocked paths requiring upgrades.
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A steady flow of traffic has crossed its expanses throughout its history as Native Americans, mountain men, pioneers and other travelers have made it a waypoint in their journeys.
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The Waypoint Radio crew discusses this and more in this episode about, um, NBA free agency, James Dolan's band, how FFXIV broke Austin, and the latest season of Riverdale.
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So when I played with Waypoint freelancer Jack de Quidt this weekend, I taught him the basics by leaning into the fictional analogies that Netrunner already supports so well.
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This episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast finds me, Mike, chatting about some of the best games of 2017 so far in the company of two marvellous guests—VideoGamer.
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We promised this podcast last week, but...well, we got caught up raising $60,000 for The Florence Project during our charity stream with the Waypoint community last week. Sorry!
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Though this latest episode of Waypoint Radio features a surprisingly long tangent about golf courses, I promise you that Austin, Rob, Danielle, and myself eventually get to video games.
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This episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast is (almost) entirely focused on Max Payne 3, as Rockstar's fascinating 2012 instalment in the Remedy-created noir shooter series turns five.
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Waypoint is pleased to present an excerpt from The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, written by Duncan Harris and published by Read Only Memory, with design and editing by Darren Wall.
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"We're seeing the rebirth of social gaming," Luigino Gigante, 27, who opened a gaming center called Waypoint Cafe on the Lower East Side of New York late last year.
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Last Friday, we had the great pleasure—and honor—of hosting Demetrious Johnson for a morning of Breakfast and Battlegrounds, followed up by a live recording of Waypoint Radio.
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That led to a full-time position at VICE at the start of 2015, and here we are in 2017 with the company supporting a standalone gaming vertical, Waypoint.
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So, for the next five days, Waypoint will be constructing its own loose mythology of gods and goddesses, avatars and heroines, twisting labyrinths and dark passageways to the underworld.
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Waypoint, which already owns around 83 percent of Stallergenes, will offer 37 euros in cash, representing a 42.9 percent premium to Stallergenes' closing price of 25.90 euros on March 20.
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The game takes place on the fictional Alola Islands—basically a very touristy vision of Hawaii, as Waypoint columnist Rob Rath dived into last year—a warm, sunny, friendly place.
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With Neon Genesis Evangelion's launch last Friday, the crew here at Waypoint Radio has finally had time to dig into and talk about the first seven episodes of the series.
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The second waypoint is a few hundred feet higher and a few thousand feet farther north along the river, so the helicopter banks to the left and continues to climb.
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Once we reach the final waypoint, Ward picks out another spot in the distance (a teal building poking out through the trees) and asks me to fly us to it.
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The news comes as Invitation is working to complete its merger with Starwood Waypoint Homes, a deal that would create the largest operator of single-family rentals in the country.
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Starwood Waypoint in fact put its latest SFR bond offering on hold earlier this week, pending new disclosures that the company is also in the sights of the SEC's probe.
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Manbij was first taken by Isis in 2014, and has been a strategic waypoint for the extremist group's supply line between the Turkish border and their major stronghold in Raqqa.
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The Waypoint Radio crew discuss this with regards to the new roguelike deckbuilder Nowhere Prophet, check back in on Night Call, and take a brief dip in the question bucket.
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Waypoint: So, when you pitched this game at the Pre-E3 judges week thing, you hit this notion of "the pressure," that was a thing you hammered on pretty heavily.
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The merger of the two largest private equity firms involved in single-family rentals, Blackstone's Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint, created a nationwide Wall Street landlord owning over 82,000 properties.
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Fallon said the focus in Syria now is to help local forces retake the Manbij pocket, an area in northern Syria that is a key waypoint between Turkey and Raqqa.
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It's thanks to sometime Waypoint/VICE contributor Chris Scullion's excellent list of indispensable DS games, published on his blog in March 2015, that I added Hotel Dusk to that list.
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"My bullshit is not the kind of thing HBS [Harebrained Schemes] stands for or tolerates, and HBS had no idea any of this happened," Carpenter told Waypoint in a statement.
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Video games are the primary focus of Waypoint, but there's a commonality between the two (besides the poopooing of critics interested in more high brow fare, like Game of Thrones).
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When I came to work at Waypoint, knowing I had a child on the way, it was the first time I was deliberately upfront with my employer about work commitment.
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Then our Waypoint EIC Austin Walker showed me this old, but new to me, video of a scrappy English bulldog named Diesel and his love affair with a cardboard box.
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However, before lawmakers think about hiking taxes, they need to rethink how the money from those taxes is spent as a first waypoint on the path to road-funding success.
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Waypoint had a chance to speak with Cyberpunk 2077 quest designer Patrick Mills for a few minutes at E3 about a variety of subjects, including the character creator's limited options.
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So blame that on the loose control that Austin keeps on today's episode of Waypoint Radio, which ranges in topic from yesterday's "Big Game" to M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening.
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Article continues after the video below Watch Waypoint play the oddball 1996 game Mr. Bones as part of our #waypoint72 live stream (and check out loads more of it here).
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In our second E3 2019 episode of Waypoint Radio, we dig deep into the service, plus chat about Cyberpunk 2077, Outer Worlds, Doom: Eternal, Keanu Reeves, and so much more.
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In our latest Waypoint 101, Austin, Rob, Patrick and myself dissect the design ethos and over-the-top Ninjitsu stylings of Klei Entertainment's 2012 stealth platformer Mark of the Ninja.
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Article continues after the video below Watch Just Blaze drop into Waypoint as part of our 72-hour launch stream (and watch more of it here) Wrench is a delight.
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Waypoint sat on that judgment until the next time Ellingwood was late: Then the company didn't bother to post a three-day eviction notice; Ellingwood said it sent the sheriff.
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Make sure to swing back to Waypoint every day for a new podcast, as we look back on 2017, and outline our favorite moments from an incredible year in games.
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Motherboard's own Emanuel Maiberg joins the Waypoint Radio crew to chat about Half-Life: Alyx, the franchise's legacy, and whether or not Quake 2 did Half-Life before Half-Life.
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Having these two visually and tonally similar works to contrast has helped the Waypoint Radio crew really dial in what they like and dislike about Star Wars as a whole.
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I wrote about Bloodborne for my top 23 list last year, but getting those end credits during SavePoint this year was one of my fondest memories of Waypoint all together.
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Like the other drawings in the Nazca Desert, its exact function is unknown, but its discovery next to an ancient path suggests it might have been used as a waypoint.
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Join Austin, Natalie, Patrick, Rob, Cado, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, and one of several time traveling incarnations of some guy named Xehanort for an in-person edition of Waypoint Radio!
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Patrick Klepek at Waypoint attributes Valve's do-nothing approach to "platform capitalism" in which companies like Valve simply create places for commerce or conversation and wash their hands of the results.
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Waypoint senior editor Mike Diver is joined by regular contributor around these parts Kate Gray, beside radio presenter, gaming enthusiast, The Football Ramble host and Monkey-Island-tattoo-haver Pete Donaldson.
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Welcome to the second episode of Waypoint 101, our semi-regular podcast where we play through an older game, something we've always wanted to get around to or worth another visit.
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Bertarelli (MBA '93) is the chairman of Waypoint Capital, and part of the wealthy family that owned Serona, the biotech giant that was sold to Merck in 2007 for $9 billion.
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It would also work with NASA's planned Deep Space Gateway, which is designed to be a station orbiting the moon, and which could act as a waypoint en route to Mars.
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Oracle's database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success Another project involved a partnership with Waypoint Robotics, where they demonstrated a robot that worked alongside human workers.
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But as the man who interviewed the directors of both Persona 5 and Nier: Automata for Waypoint, he's absolutely the right dude to be talking about these awesome games, right now.
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But I know so many excellent people who love it—including most of the Waypoint staff, especially Rob and Joel, who has an ungodly amount of hours in the first game.
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The orbiter is searching for traces of atmospheric gases that might yield hints of microbial life on the surface, and will act as a communications waypoint for the ExoMars 2020 rover.
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As well as using the above stream and download link, you can subscribe to the Waypoint UK Podcast on iTunes, and find it on all good providers of these podcast things.
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However, it provided Waypoint with a forensic report on the game King of Treasures, originally commissioned by Homeland Security Investigations, a department of ICE that focuses on cross-border criminal activity.
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Yusef Cole wrote a brilliant piece for Waypoint during our week on guns and games where he recounted the historic and political significance of the imagery the game brings to bear.
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Though our regular Monday episode of Waypoint Radio went live last night, we recorded a special bonus podcast, as well, where we break down today's big investigation into Sleeping Dogs 2.
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We discuss what Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gets right with its difficulty, the ups and downs in level design, and the science behind lightsabers on this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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And if you missed the last episode, which we neglected to post on the site, here you go: Make sure to swing back to Waypoint on Friday for the next episode.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: There are two ways that the gun presses on the game: Through the players who use it against you, and how you use it against those players.
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Our punching—and kicking—wizard hero is a cyborg, so, it's part human firefighter and part generic Gundam mech, put together with parts from a "busted up Transformer," Winson told Waypoint.
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Given how ingrained social justice and politics have become in my work, especially at Waypoint, I've often been asked when that shift occurred, and I've never had a particularly good answer.
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Earlier this week, Waypoint reported that workers at Riot Games are planning a walkout demanding that the company—which has had its own sexual harassment problems—not implement forced arbitration there.
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The people of Waypoint have Strong Feelings about Destiny, so we convened Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker, Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau, Senior Editor Rob Zacny, and myself to work through them.
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On that note... Those who have listened to me catalogue my time with FFXIV over on Waypoint Radio for the last few months know that it has been a trying time.
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Waypoint editor-in-chief Austin Walker and I recently had a chance to spend more than an hour speaking with Sean Murray about No Man's Sky—the past, present, and future.
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Just before I joined Waypoint, I published a series of stories at Kotaku taking a closer look at G2A, and digging into the accusations that have dogged the company for years.
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Yesterday, to learn more, we had a quick exchange about the round with Roofstock cofounder and CEO Gary Beasley, who was previously the co-CEO of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, one of the largest publicly traded single family rental (SFR) companies in the U.S. Earlier in his career, Beasley also spent more than two years as CEO of Waypoint Homes, an operating company that acquires, renovates, leases and manages a portfolio of rental homes in markets around the country.
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When Waypoint asked now-former ESA president Mike Gallagher about crunch at E3, he said they were "listening," but refused to outline any specific steps it was taking to better labor conditions.
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But what it definitely means is that we can talk about love and snogs and honks and bonks in video games, over the years, in episode five of the Waypoint UK Podcast.
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In case you didn't hear, we're launching a website here at waypoint, and in order to do that properly, we're going to stream 72 games in 53 hours for your viewing pleasure.
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A team of archaeologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences unearthed the tomb in China's 240-grave Jiayi cemetary near Turpan, which was once a waypoint along the Silk Road.
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For Episode 69 of Waypoint Radio, Senior Editor Rob Zacny and I invited special guest Tim Barnes (our intrepid producer!) to come from behind the mics and sit center stage with us.
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According to Pete Dixon, a partner and advisor at Waypoint Wealth Management, risk-tolerance tests can be a useful tool for investors who want to begin to explore the concept of risk.
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Make sure to swing back to Waypoint next week for a new podcast every day, as we look back on 2017, and outline our favorite moments from an incredible year in games.
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We're sailing into new territories on Waypoint Radio 222, with Captain Natalie at the helm, and Rob, Patrick, and Danielle along for a wild ride of mixed metaphors and new game scuttlebutt.
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You'll be able to hear more of my thoughts on the game on Friday's episode of Waypoint Radio, which features Rob Zacny and I doing a huge deep dive into the game.
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Maybe. We spend a solid hour of Waypoint Radio talking about Sony Bend's first big game, on which many large hopes and dreams were hung, but the finished product just doesn't deliver.
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The next Waypoint UK Podcast is live on June 1, when Mike and Steve will look ahead to E3's likely reveals, and probably talk about its awful food for a bit.
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In any case, what I want to know from you in today's open thread on the Waypoint forums is what gaming characters have been the most memorable for you over the years?
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Most of the mergers since then have been small, and the deal between Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint would be the biggest in an industry that did not exist a decade ago.
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I had started the game for our upcoming Waypoint 101, but while I'd expected some classic cyberpunk, I hadn't expected a game that would so completely nail the appeal of cozy domesticity.
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The simulator also gives researchers the capacity to change the moths' visual waypoint (a black paper mountain) and alter the direction of the magnetic fields coursing through the arena via large magnetic coils.
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Playing it this week for our Waypoint 101 later today—and eight years after its release—the game's political themes are clearer and more complicated than I realized the first time I played.
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But I did spy Waypoint contributor Chris Scullion's useful list of stuff you might've missed from last week's mega-expo and its many related trailer drops, and this was a part of it.
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Game Detectives, a community of people responsible for cracking things like Overwatch's Sombra ARG and the sigil ARG that I've reported on at Waypoint, have built an ARG advent calendar with 25 puzzles.
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With all the hyper-focussed pods we've been casting lately, we decided to go ahead and have a good, old-fashioned, Monday-style Waypoint Radio episode and talk about what we've been playing.
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The Waypoint team is in LA (at least most of us, some of the cool kids here are on the home team) for several days of fun (but no sun) at E3 2017.
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We dive into the Sega Genesis Mini's lineup, discuss therapy and characters in Eliza, and talk about the games we've played from this sudden rush of new releases on this week's Waypoint Radio.
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Waypoint loves video games, which is why Austin, Rob, Danielle, and myself spend the first 20 minutes of this podcast talking about The Thing and the 80s anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
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I was lucky enough to avoid this because my life is dominated more by my child's schedule than anything else, but Waypoint hadn't made it a priority to call out people overworking themselves.
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Like Waypoint columnist Cameron Kunzelman, there was a point at which I just stopped getting better at Overwatch—and wasn't committed to putting in the time learning and practicing necessary to do so.
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When Austin Walker initially asked me about my interest in doing a column, before Waypoint formally existed, I thought that the apocalypse would be something that would carry through a number of topics.
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Not to compare everything to Dark Souls—then again, this is Waypoint—but looking at the way I regularly bounced off Sekiro, exhausted by its demands, I felt the complete opposite with Valfaris.
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One of the podcast ideas we had for the end of the year was "game of the year," but since Waypoint had approached the concept differently each year, there's always room to improvise.
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We'll know if they can do it when the game launches early March 03, 2020, but for now, Waypoint Radio's own Austin and Patrick can share their early hands on with the game.
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Thankfully, Koei Tecmo America was able to put Waypoint in touch with Mei Erikawa, director and head of Ruby Party and daughter of Koei and Ruby Party co-founder Keiko Erikawa, via email.
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The first article I wrote for Waypoint, back when it was called VICE Gaming, was little more than an excuse to talk about The Fall, a thrilling (but darkly disturbing) story about artificial intelligence.
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Our mods also picked out some of our recent open threads (thank you mods!) where the Waypoint staff asks a question they are curious about, and the forum users let us know their thoughts!
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To hell with it: Wolfenstein: The New Order is the game Waypoint wants to revisit right now and maybe, if you look in your heart, it's the game we might all feel better revisiting.
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Back when Waypoint was the temporary home of my Bruiseday column, I compared this interaction to a video game controller, where the output in the ring mirrored the input, however imperfectly, of the crowd.
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In the second (and final) part of our Red Dead Redemption playthrough for Waypoint 101, we—ugh—survive the extremely long Mexico section of the game, and revisit the still-memorable finale and epilogue.
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Above: screenshot courtesy Bethesda It's not very often that everyone at Waypoint is playing the same game simultaneously, but Prey has been scratching a lot of different itches for Austin, Danielle, Rob, and myself.
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Austin, Rob, Danika and Patrick led a rousing discussion from the Waypoint Radio Live panel this PAX East, with talk of all the games from the show floor—including Phantom Doctrine and Due Process.
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Our team would be coached by the kiyari-shu, the procession's leader, who would sing regional songs to cheer us up and dictate the length of our suffering at each waypoint; nine in total.
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We discuss Warzone's fun take on respawning, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and how much it builds on the first game, and our new work from home situation on today's Waypoint Radio.
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As our pals over at Waypoint noted last week, cult-favorite gamemaker From Software's punishing, horror-ish 2015 game Bloodborne has been back on everyone's lips in 2018 for reasons that aren't entirely clear.
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A similar dynamic applied to Colombian criminals in Britain, for obvious reasons, and north London's Turkish gangs, whose homeland has always been a key waypoint in the trafficking of heroin from Afghanistan into Europe.
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On this episode of Waypoint Radio, we discuss how this feels in The Outer Worlds, as well as making new friends in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and just what is up with...the Clancyverse??.
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In celebration of Waypoint, our new video game vertical, the staff is streaming 72 games in 72 hours—a marathon binge of tabletop games, bargain bin disasters, and next-level stuff on PSVR headsets.
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A variety of heads have already come through the VICE office this weekend to hangout and button mash with the Waypoint crew, who are still posted up in the lobby and surprisingly still awake.
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On today's Waypoint Radio, Austin, Patrick and Rob chat about recent news in the world and the world of games, including the Mueller investigation, goings on at ArenaNet, and the Reddit kerfuffle at KotakuInAction.
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Five years later, Reset still isn't out, but the game's original trailer remains haunting: As part of an ongoing series at Waypoint, I've been fielding requests from readers about games they were excited to play.
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They shut their eyes, imagining if their Bigurl felt the same, if it was a feel that was the thing, not just a subroutine, damaged, with an extra waypoint added out of Joe's personal allotment.
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" On July 24, 2017, in the Waypoint forums, a user by the name of Moom weighed in and said, "At one point in my life I had to help collect books to send to inmates.
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We wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, so in nearly every one-on-one interview we scheduled, we asked the developers sitting in front of us about a constant refrain at Waypoint: labor practices.
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Article continues after the video below Watch more, from Waypoint: "Our creative director, Luca Dalcò, was really touched by people around him who suffer from mental illness," the game's environmental artist Lorenzo Conticelli tells me.
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More colorfully old-fashioned stuff on Waypoint: More Than Fuzzy Nostalgia, FMV Games Still Matter Today C'mon, Game Devs: It's Time to Bring Back 'Blast Corps' An Arbitrary Top Ten of the Best Sonic Games
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"For years gambling was associated with the lower class, organized crime, people who were trying to skirt the system," he told Waypoint in an interview, adding that legal gambling venues have mostly removed that tarnish.
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This contrasts with Cage's earlier statements; in an earlier interview with Waypoint, about Detroit more generally, he had this to say: I think Cage understands that simply making the audience feel something, anything, isn't enough.
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Read more gaming articles on VICE, and follow our new socials: VICE Gaming becomes Waypoint real soon, a new standalone website, and you can follow and like us on Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Instagram and more.
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I first reviewed Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze when it first came out in the early days of 2014, and I revisited it in my very first piece for Waypoint back around the site's launch.
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As a teacher, she has the perfect knowledge base and personality to teach you everything you need to know at Waypoint High School, from blending arcane magics and silent takedowns, to the power of patience.
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Waypoint also spoke to Dr. Anitha Iyer, Chief Clinical Officer for the Mental Health Association of New York City and advisor to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, who affirmed the necessity for proper response protocols.
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Legendary Hip-Hop Producer Just Blaze Schools Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker in Street Fighter V. Andrew Shack, a former A&R and president of the record label Priority Records, had a similar experience.
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Like most of the western world, Evie, who asked Waypoint not to use her full name, wasn't familiar with Mizzurna Falls when she stumbled across it for the first time in the Autumn of 2015.
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We've talked about it between us at Waypoint—about how freakin' hard this game can be, in its early stages, when the "you", Morgan Yu, is very underpowered and uncertain of his or her direction.
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When I covered Moirai for Waypoint last year, I quite deliberately shied away from explaining some of its key twists—particularly the way it chains players' experiences together even though the game is played alone.
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"Waypoint of the Year" was one of the vaguest, and while eating hot chicken over lunch, Rob started talking, out of nowhere, about The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin show on HBO from some years back.
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That's not to say we won't publish anything about Kingdom Come in the future, if we find a way to cover it that wouldn't betray what Waypoint represents, but for now, our attention goes elsewhere.
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"However, in light of Stallergenes Greer's limited public float, Waypoint has concluded that the benefits of having shares publicly listed are limited, and the costs of maintaining such listing are not justified for shareholders," it added.
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One of the earliest stories I wrote for Waypoint, back when it was VICE Gaming, was a profile of LowSpecGamer, a YouTube creator who specifically makes videos to help people run games on low-end hardware.
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This is the same kid that Austin Walker mentioned in the episode of Waypoint Radio from a few days ago, and he's right to pick Cuno out as emblematic of something that Disco Elysium is doing.
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Stream or download episode four of the Waypoint UK Podcast below, subscribe to the UK podcast on iTunes, or check out all previous episodes—including the old VICE Gaming Podcasts from before Waypoint's launch—on Soundcloud.
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Here at Waypoint a few months ago I suggested that one of the best ways to start playing Netrunner casually would be to grab a core set and a copy of the Campaign Expansion Termanal Directive.
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I set a waypoint for the construction site, and as Jimi brings the mood into a sunset sort of place, I find the moment to breach the topic directly, stumbling a bit to find the words.
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On Waypoint Radio 198, Austin and Rob are still living Subterfuge, Danielle is getting in to the Halloween spirit with some spooky indie horror games, and just about everyone is finally playing Red Dead Redemption 2.
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He convinced Ms. Lehmann that instead of boxwoods, she and her fellow volunteers should plant native species, which would attract pollinators, insects, and create a waypoint for animals, and humans, between Central Park and Riverside Park.
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Brazilian armed forces have doubled their presence on the northern border, beginning in Pacaraima, a frontier town of 12,000 and waypoint for more than 800 Venezuelans crossing daily by bus, car, bicycle and even on foot.
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I'm curious to see what kind of longevity Murderous Pursuits enjoys, and whether it will remain as interesting to me after I'm away from PAX, and after I've played a few rounds with the Waypoint gang.
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Last year, we concocted Waypoint High, an alternate universe where our favorite characters of 2016 were awarded Senior Superlatives, danced together at the prom, and snuck out of class to get high in the tennis courts.
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We're doing something a little different (and very exciting) tonight: At 10 PM Eastern we're premiering Waypoint Presents on Disney XD, a documentary series covering games, the people that make them, and the communities that play them.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French healthcare group Stallergenes has agreed to a 730 million euro ($834 million) takeover by the Waypoint/Ares Life Sciences vehicle of Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli, and subsequent de-listing, the companies said on Thursday.
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It's why Austin, Danielle, Rob, and myself couldn't start Waypoint Radio without reflecting on the (still unfolding) events in Las Vegas, where a mass shooter killed at least 58 people and wounded 500 others on Sunday night.
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The console versions of the game—it came out for Xbox 360, too (and is now backwards compatible with Xbox One)—always seemed like an afterthought for Valve and distributor/server manager EA. Continue reading on Waypoint.
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In this transmission of Waypoint Radio, Natalie, Rob, Patrick, and Danielle discuss depictions of abuse in video games: starting with the recent The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, a game that tackles the issue in its text.
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These are the ingredients that make a great 80s-flavored horror story, and just the other night, Waypoint Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau and Publisher Joel Fowler took a couple of Stories Untold's freaky tales for a spin.
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Instead, here are three games suddenly hyped on: The brief teaser trailer released in March didn't show much beyond mechs and pixels, and while, truetruetrue, that should be enough at a website called Waypoint, it didn't stick.
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Muira McCammon visited Gitmo earlier this year for Waypoint, exploring both the culture of play there and the people trying to make the facility a bit less isolating, and took pictures of the prison's sparse gaming library.
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Waypoint 101 is our special book-club style, roundtable series, where both staff and community play through and chat about a game that either left an imprint on us and the industry or else was unfortunately overlooked.
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Waypoint (Patrick Klepek) I don't know how Odyssey was developed, but it feels as though Nintendo's designers had a game jam, where they came up with wild and unexpected ways of interacting with a 3D Mario game.
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The British side of Waypoint will be streaming some of the best games of 2016 on Twitch on December 7th—and you can join us, assuming you're in London at the time, and that you want to.
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I've written about the joy of Style Savvy games for Waypoint in the past so I won't retread that ground here, but I will say that what I saw in the Styling Star demo has impressed me.
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In a recent essay for Waypoint, Dante Douglas underlines the commonality of this player-centrism in games and their stories: The Grimoire offered you a way into the world of Destiny without making that world about you.
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I can't speak to how VR-centric websites perform, but from my time at Giant Bomb, Kotaku, and Waypoint, writing about VR has been a time tested way to guarantee you're writing to an audience of one.
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Our friends over at Waypoint have started trying to understand it themselves—without actually playing any of those weird in-between games with fractions in the title—in the form of a podcast they're calling Lore Reasons.
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Good times that we're both reviving and ruining on this episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast by putting Sega's Mega Drive—Genesis, if we must—against the Super Nintendo in a points-based battle to the death.
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The game is the brainchild of the designers behind GOP Arcade, a collection of games that (as VICE's Waypoint reported last year) spoofed the ugly absurdity of what life has been like over the past few years.
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And remember: you can sign up right here for the Waypoint Community Gundam Versus Casual Tournament and come chat about it over on the forums—which might also be a good place to pick up a teammate.
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On the podcast this month, beside Waypoint senior editor Mike Diver (a Southampton fan), is Grant Appleyard (a Newcastle fan), senior producer on Football Manager 2017 and a Sports Interactive veteran having joined the studio in 2001.
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The producer of said Platinum Games-developed action-RPG, Taro Yoko, told Waypoint that he'd been studying CAVE's shooters, to make sure his game's own brand of bullet hell was both authentically hectic and possessed a freshness.
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Watch more, on Waypoint: In the first episode, you can sit on a bench while you hang out with Rachel Amber in the park, and Chloe basically gives herself a pep talk not to act like a weirdo.
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Now, in a new report by Daisuke Wakabayashi at The New York Times, we see that those smaller ambitions have a new waypoint: a self-driving shuttle to ferry employees between Apple's current campus and the new one.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Waypoint Leasing Holdings Ltd, the helicopter leasing company backed by investment firms for billionaires George Soros and Michael Dell, said on Sunday it had voluntarily filed for bankruptcy in New York and planned to restructure.
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It's a beautiful, minimal cat-and-mouse chase with that added element of surprise from the get-go, and I can confirm, through a playtest with Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker, that it is also very fun.
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That's why Waypoint was happy to sit down with Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé, who was able to talk about the future of the company and its games, starting with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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We discuss how Fire Emblem: Three Houses is walking that line, what '20 second levels' are in Mario Maker 2, and whether or not A Way Out was actually a great game in this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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Elsewhere in the Disney portfolio, DisneyXD in particular has become a haven for gaming and esports coverage, hosting bespoke shows from Vice's Waypoint section and gaming network IGN, with a Nintendo-themed family showdown show on the way.
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Watch more, from Waypoint: For some, that's the point of E3, and why you hear some decry press reports about games set to be announced as "spoilers," rather than informed reporting about what's happening in the games industry.
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On today's Waypoint Radio, the crew of Austin, Danielle, Patrick and Rob is all here to discuss our Switch adventures with Octopath Traveler, Hollow Knight and Captain Toad, alongside the impressive RTS stylings of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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So, every second Thursday, there'll be a hot new made-in-Blighty podcast for you right here on Waypoint, brimming with "u"s but not so many "z"s, and generally pronouncing words as they should be. Right?
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There are a lot of video games released every year, and even though we've tried to make Waypoint the kind of place where people can spend part of their work days playing games, there's still not enough time.
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Nobody at Waypoint was a Monster Hunter fan before Capcom dropped Monster Hunter: World at the start of this year, but for a feverish few weeks in January, everyone was hunting Anjanaths like our lives depended on it.
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The whole reason I'm telling this story is because of a question that came up on Waypoint Radio last Friday, in which someone asked about the motivations behind sources and how reporters handle the information passed to them.
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As part of its human spaceflight initiatives, NASA wants to build a space station in orbit around the Moon called the Gateway, which would serve as a waypoint for astronauts who are traveling to and from the lunar surface.
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"It is unlikely in my opinion that JTF-Gitmo took away board games or books or DVDs or anything like that to make life worse for the men who are detained there," he said to Waypoint over the phone.
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Even though a million games have come out recently, three members of Waypoint—Austin Walker, Mike Diver, and myself—are deep into Final Fantasy XV. For the past week, it's basically all we've been pouring our free time into.
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The game that everyone is playing is now the game that Waypoint is playing, as me and Austin have decided to figure out what the heck is up with the shooting game with the super weird name, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
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With the Democratic primaries in full swing, the Waypoint Radio crew decided it would be a good time to sit down and flesh out their thoughts on the current candidates, and what has emerged from their campaigns so far.
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On today's Waypoint Radio, Danielle, Rob, and Patrick continue some of the impassioned beverage discussion from last week, concerning coffee and water (this time, it's really about coffee), Rage 2's existence, and the disappointment of Total War: Britannia.
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Today on Waypoint Radio, Austin, Danika, Patrick and myself recounted our stories of weekend triumph and tragedy, fending off creatures in Hunt: Showdown, wrecking Anjanaths and dragons in Monster Hunter World, playing BioShock again and eagerly awaiting Prey DLC.
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With Red Dead Redemption 2 right around the corner, the Waypoint crew: Natalie, Patrick, Rob, Austin, and Danielle (with Cado on production!) saddled up to revisit the first open-world game in the series, 2010's Red Dead Redemption.
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I met Falmung, who asked to go by his Internet pseudonym after a Waypoint reader pointed me towards the Xenoblade Chronicles 2subreddit, where Falmung was talking with players about the criticisms leveled against the game in Switch's portable mode.
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Waypoint EIC Austin Walker knows a thing or two about intent and authorship when it comes to our media of choice here: how do you think he got to be Professor Killah (well, that's from another panel, more on that later).
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Kotaku was part of a conference call with members of the press ahead of this news—Waypoint was not invited—and ESRB president Patricia Vance explained why the organization went with a broad label, rather than anything specific to loot boxes.
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Emily Kaldwin, former class president and HBIC of Waypoint High School turned around, resting her weight against the lip of the sink as she gazed at Amelie Lacroix, the beautiful and chilly foreign exchange student who was also her best friend.
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Those lucky enough to have a training gym or "PokéStop" â€" a waypoint where players can stock up on much-needed items â€" serendipitously placed nearby are also putting out advertisements and promotions aimed at drawing players to it.
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On Waypoint Radio today, Patrick, Natalie, Rob and Danielle do a little show and tell on the games they've been digging into lately, including We Happy Few, The Final Station, Rome 2's latest expansion and Breath of the Wild.
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On Monday's episode of Waypoint Radio, I shared a story about a very special game of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, one that I can't quite shake, and which has caused me to think a lot about why some multiplayer games stick with you.
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Sometimes when we choose Waypoint 101 games, we're looking for an immediate connection to a recent release or news story: Revisiting Red Dead Redemption this fall was great critical prep for returning to Rockstar's version of the wild west in RDR2.
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When Waypoint asked Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, what he thought might have happened to the board games in the detention facilities, he speculated that the Joint Task Force might be telling the truth.
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We have some serious Friday energy on Waypoint Radio today, with another check-in on Metro Exodus, a rousing update on how good that gamefeel is in Trials Rising, and Cado's experiences with a stylish new action game in Ape Out.
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VICE Gaming became Waypoint in a week of huge gaming news, with Rockstar dropping the first trailer for their long-anticipated Red Dead Redemption sequel, Nintendo providing details on their next piece of hardware, and voice actors officially going on strike.
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In-between preparing for next week's holiday break and organizing our game of the year lists, the Waypoint staff has been unable to shake this weird story from The New York Times that, seriously and soberly, suggests aliens are, uh, real??
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If you caught our Monster Hunter stream on Monday or that evening's Waypoint Radio, or if you followed my Twitter thread on Sunday, you can probably guess that the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl win is a big part of that.
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This week's Waypoint Radio is about the anxieties surrounding commercial art and the way they can often overshadow art's cultural value, and how the latter often has more to do with personal meaning and artistic goals than performance in "the marketplace".
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In today's episode of Waypoint Radio, Danika, Austin, Patrick and yours truly discuss Super Bowl antics, Monster Hunter, and the excellent pixellated platformers we're all playing—including Celeste and Dandara, a Metroid-y Soulslike—before shifting over to Yakuza chat.
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"Crunch is a systemic, top-down solution to the problem of extracting the most labor from game developers," argued Waypoint writer Cameron Kunzelman last year, in response to a developer's personal adoration with crunch, as part of their creative process.
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At the Game Developers Conference this year, Waypoint contributor Ian Williams reported on the industry taking the first concrete steps to realizing a long held belief the only way for development labor to truly wield any power is through collective strength.
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These need to be addressed, and so, speaking as an unified editorial staff, Waypoint has communicated to VICE Senior Management the following expectations, which represent the bare minimum of what we feel is necessary to ensure the safety of its workers.
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With a few different Waypoint editors taking some time off this week, Danielle and myself are joined by one of our more regular writers, Cameron Kunzelman, to break down my piece arguing Assassin's Creed should ditch its sci-fi trappings.
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We discuss how the various forms of tutorialization in Fire Emblem: Three Houses stack up, the difficult decision of choosing your House, and Austin and Cado's visit to the Game Devs of Color Expo in this episode of Waypoint Radio.
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It's why the waypoint marker is so crucial to games like Batman: Arkham City, Infamous, Gravity Rush, and The Amazing Spider-Man, which emulate the superhero's experience of the city, knowing that you couldn't possibly navigate those indistinguishable rooftops by yourself.
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Listen to Waypoint's Austin Walker and Patrick Klepek talk all about God of War spoilers in this bonus episode of Waypoint Radio: But in games, rigidity in visual storytelling is the thing developers have been trying to surpass for years.
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Like most of the country, all of us at Waypoint spent the last month processing the horror of yet another school shooting, while admiring the bravery of the student survivors from Parkland, Florida rising up, demanding change, and taking no bullshit.
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In today's Waypoint Radio, we talk about our extensive interview with Sean Murray of Hello Games (the creators of No Man's Sky), about the game, PR and hype, its politics, and the controversy that the team dealt with at launch.
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And I wasn't the only one at Waypoint that was true for: (Danika and her palico's fit is fire, by the way.) Patrick had not only hit the same wall I had, but had the same exact experience I did.
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A lot of video game villains are cartoonish and over-the-top, but as Danika Harrod argued in a piece on Waypoint this week, sometimes games go too far in trying to make the point that evil people are evil.
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But the cornerstone of this investigation are a series of articles about the culture of play at Guantanamo Bay's detention camp and naval base by journalist and war crimes researcher Muira McCammon, whom Waypoint sent to Gitmo earlier this year.
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Manveer Heir, who came on Waypoint Radio in 2017 to talk about his time working on Mass Effect: Andromeda, has returned to the podcast studio with Rashad Redic, an industry veteran whose worked on games such as Fallout 3 and Skyrim.
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"Five star podcast, five star runtime" has become the unofficial mantra of Waypoint podcasts in the last year or so, a way of admitting we have a very hard time getting any of us to shut up once we get going.
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Austin and I managed to tiptoe around a bunch of stuff on Waypoint Radio, but with both of us having recently finished the game, it seemed like a good idea to sit down and talk through the whole damn experience.
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It's a disjointed week at Waypoint, with most of the crew headed to Boston for PAX East, but Austin, Natalie, Patrick, Rob, and Cado still found time to sit around some microphones and yap about the games we've been playing.
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It's a full crew on Waypoint Radio today, with Austin, myself, Danielle, and Rob huddling around a microphone to discuss our thoughts on the weekend's big event: while streaming PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the most popular YouTube personality, PewDiePie, used the N-word.
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Waypoint published a piece this week about a professor who's cataloged more than 2,000 soda machines in video games, which got Danielle, Rob, and myself thinking about the different ways games choose to represent the most innocuous parts of real-life.
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There are only a few more days before the Waypoint staff has to finalize their game of the year lists, which means everyone is hurrying through various games, trying to figure out if there's a game they missed (or forgot about).
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Designer Yoko Taro's latest slice of emotional weirdness struck several us at Waypoint, and by the time the credits were rolling for the fifth time, the only thing on our mind was finding a place to spoil the shit out of the game.
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The round was led by the private equity firm Novator Partners out of London, with participation from Shasta Ventures, entrepreneur Max Levchin, and earlier backers, including the Swiss investment firm Waypoint and Samchuly, a maker of bicycle parts that's headquartered in Korea.
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This included seven "manually programmed waypoint coordinates" that when linked could fly from the Kuala Lumpur airport to the southern Indian Ocean, but police could not determine if the coordinates were found in a single file or from different files, he said.
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On Waypoint Radio 192, Danielle, Natalie, and Patrick talk about games that do teen writing and teen characters well—inspired by this week's release of Life is Strange 2 (episode 1), and the series that each of us has an affinity for.
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Video games can't and shouldn't replace seeking professional help in these circumstances—and Gareth Dutton's 'The Problem with Using Video Games as Panacea for Mental Health Issues' 2016 article for (a pre-Waypoint) VICE is a very interesting exploration of this point.
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On this episode of the fortnightly Waypoint UK Podcast, senior ed sort Mike Diver and regular co-conspirator Kate Gray are joined by Paul Kilduff-Taylor of Oxford's Mode 7 Games, to discuss the studio's forthcoming releases: Frozen Synapse 2 and Tokyo 42.
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Chances are that a whole bunch of Waypoint readers, viewers, listeners and forum lurkers (hiya, we see ya) have had one of these consoles, and have a suggestion or some when it comes to the most unique games they played on it.
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She's even assembled a ridiculously accurate model of the Normandy and a slew of classic game characters (as I previously covered here on Waypoint), all in a program ostensibly designed to spawn customized, cartoonish critters who dance at and/or eat each other.
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We've had, for years upon years, stories and statistics proving all of this, decades of anonymous interviews with artists and coders desperate for something to change, from EA Spouse to the Rockstar Spouses, from The Guardian to Kotaku to here at Waypoint.
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On this bonus episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast, senior editor Mike Diver is joined at VICE's London office by Alice Bell of Videogamer, Chris Bratt of Eurogamer, and Alysia Judge of IGN to discuss some of 2016's most impressive video games.
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Waypoint hasn't written about the game yet, partially because we've struggled over how to cover a game whose creative director has both publicly and forcefully supported GamerGate and made highly questionable statements about the game's "historical" accuracy regarding representing people of color.
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In light of the ongoing debate about guns in America, Waypoint is taking a closer look at the way guns and violence are portrayed in the industry, and why politicians continue to point toward games in the event of a mass tragedy.
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On episode 180 of Waypoint Radio, Danielle talks about her real-life fighting game, Austin fell down a tactics hole, Rob and Austin are both living out cold-war woes in Phantom Doctrine, and Patrick has become a true Dead Cells Connoisseur.
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The two institutional landlords, Invitation Homes, a rental business spun out of the private equity giant the Blackstone Group, and Starwood Waypoint Homes said they would combine to create an entity with about 272,21 homes in more than a dozen big markets.
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Kevin Stein, a lawyer and deputy director of the California Reinvestment Coalition, a group that supports the rights of tenants and homeowners, said he was concerned that the merger of Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint would increase their power to raise rents.
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And yet — both Bains and Steven Leigh, of the Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, agreed — it is a place trying to shake off the sense of being a waypoint, a place defined not by what it is, but by what it is near.
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In 2016, when I joined VICE to launch what was then called Waypoint, I was regularly working 60 hour weeks, plus whatever I was putting into Friends at the Table, the actual play podcast that was at that point still just a hobby.
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At this point, I've written and spoken about my love of the game a dozen times (hell, we announced that "VICE Gaming" was becoming "Waypoint" with a love letter to the game), so I don't need to waste words on praise here.
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It went public at the start of 2017, and now, after the acquisition of Starwood Waypoint last year, which had been the third largest single-family rental REIT, owns approximately 80,000 homes in 17 major markets, largely in Florida and the West.
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On today's Waypoint Radio, Austin, Natalie, Patrick, and Rob discuss the recent sudden closure of Telltale Games, how crunch culture causes a cycle of burnout that is physically unsustainable, and how unions and radical cultural change might be the only way forward.
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Kiki Wolfkill Bonnie and I had already started talking about what it means for Halo to be trans-media beyond books, and what are some interesting ways to do that, which is where Waypoint and Channel and some of these ecosystem pieces come into it.
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President Donald Trump recently gave NASA a "mandate" to build the Gateway, a small crew-tended station that is intended to orbit the moon and serve as a waypoint for future exploration of the moon's surface, as well as a launching point to destinations beyond.
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On Waypoint Radio this week, a listener asked us what it's like to play similar games back-to-back, using Horizon: Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as examples of open world games released within weeks of one another.
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In a meaty 2-hour-long Waypoint Radio, Rob, Austin and Danielle get down to business talking about E3 Judges Week, slightly broken games that we love (like State of Decay 2 and STALKER), and the ARG Danielle fell all the way down last week.
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So, when I went to our forums to ask for suggestions for the final Waypoint 101 of the year, I brought some requirements: After looking at a ton of great suggestions from y'all, we decided to go with Klei's 2012 Mark of the Ninja.
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My personal reading of God of War informed the 2,000-something word review published on Waypoint, but it reflects a fixed moment in time, when I played through a very long game largely in isolation, left only to my own thoughts, impressions, and reactions.
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Above: Illustration by Stephen Maurice Graham You've almost certainly seen the work of Belfast-based illustrator Stephen Maurice Graham on the pages of Waypoint—in addition to several article commissions, he's responsible for the artwork that adorns our social accounts (like Facebook, and Twitter).
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Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker, Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau, and yours truly huddled around the warmth of a microphone to discuss Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Watch Dogs 2, a tiny bit of Dishonored 2, and the politically-aware platformer Even the Ocean.
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If you caught the latest Waypoint UK Podcast—if not, it's right here—you'll have heard me talk a little about how Nintendo could reveal what's forthcoming with their Breath of the Wild DLC beyond the already announced "Pack 1" at this month's E3.
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As this very smart piece above by our friends over at Waypoint elaborates on, the dynamics between white gun ownership and black gun ownership in America are worlds apart, as the former has historically used firearms as part of their ongoing oppression of the latter.
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While my employer has changed plenty of times over the years—Giant Bomb to Kotaku to Waypoint, in the past three years—I've managed to stay connected with my most ardent fans because they have a way of keeping track of what I'm up to.
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That's a core tenet of Waypoint, that representation and visibility are important, that it means a great deal to people to see themselves reflected in the media they are exposed to, be it fictional or, in the case of athletic contests, a real-life analogue.
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Welcome to a bonus Waypoint UK Podcast, recorded live at London's EGX Rezzed show—a wonderful place where a plethora of indie video games, and their makers, come together with players to have three days of sharing, caring and, hopefully, just a little raving.
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But, again, of course that's how Crew Expendable, which only lasts about 30 minutes if you're a scaredy cat like me, and significantly less if you bolt to each waypoint without too much caution (good luck with that), is always going to play out.
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Not only can you make a (relatively) quick trip to check out Estacion Federal — the hip Tijuana commons its developer recently described as "part artistic community, part commuter waypoint and part gastro-utopia" — but you're also in a good position to check out El Jardín.
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All week, Waypoint will be exploring how games intersect and engage with the carceral state through a collection of new articles and essays, key material from the archives, and a new documentary that picks up the thread of my favorite stories that we've published.
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Offering a welcome waypoint between No Man's Sky and the tantalizing promise of fall's packed release schedule, it had quite a few of us tweeting blurry pictures of our 3DS screens at one another, sharing tips, and subtweeting the hell out of our more troublesome fictional customers.
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The project—driven by London-based graphic designer Caspian Whistler, with consultation provided by Read Only Memory's Darren Wall (ROM's most recent book is The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, an excerpt from which can be found on Waypoint here)—has raised over £20,000 from close to 700 backers.
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I know, it took a long time for Friday to arrive, and it'd be nice if Friday just gave you a heads up that it was going to be late, but look: Friday's here, and Friday means it's time for another episode of Waypoint Radio, too. See?
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But there's one question I'd pose to you, readers of Waypoint, who have more game knowledge collectively than I ever will: If you started from scratch, tell me over on Waypoint's forums what kind of game library would you build for the remaining 41 detainees at Gitmo?
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Like you said in the Waypoint podcast a little while back, protagonist Marcus Holloway is a black man who doesn't have to stand in for all black people; by virtue of two central characters being black, we get to see a wider range of black life.
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Offering a welcome waypoint between NoMan's Sky and the tantalizing promise of fall's packed release schedule, it had quite a few of us tweeting blurry pictures of our 3DS screens at one another, sharing tips, and subtweeting the hell out of our more troublesome fictional customers.
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One reason I keep playing is because I want to recapture the same feeling, and I want to avoid the problem Waypoint writer Cameron Kunzelman hit with Baldur's Gate: World charmed and thrilled me for a long time, though, far longer than I could have ever anticipated.
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" Mike Diver, Waypoint "I felt like something that I had never needed to feel inside wasn't there anymore; an unspoken connection to people that I always considered myself a part of, but here I was being told: nope, sorry, those French folk, we're done with them.
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Perhaps to battle this situation and have more control over the market when it tanks, the largest single-family rental firms in the US, Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint Homes, are merging to form one giant landlord with 82,000 single-family homes, concentrated in the low tier.
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The little piece in question, by regular Waypoint writer, Kiss and Tell columnist and UK Podcast guest extraordinaire Kate Gray, was more about getting people chatting away about the best (loads) and worst (not much at all) about Mario Kart 8, than it was a definitive statement.
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In this episode of Waypoint Radio, Danielle, Patrick and Rob gather to talk about the piece, sexualized ladies in games, depictions of desirable bodies in games and movies, and what it means to reclaim a character for your own, whether they were intended for your demographic or not.
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On Waypoint Radio 193, Austin, Danielle, Rob, and Natalie discuss Rob's recent reverie in Forza Horizon 4, Natalie had her dessert first in Super Mario Party, Danielle is catching up with Kassandra in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Austin has a surprising amount to say about Xbox Game Pass.
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Pew Die Pie's racist outburst (PewDiePie Doesn't Deserve a Pass For Using the N-Word Because He Was Angry - Waypoint ) triggered a number of articles about broader issues, such as the role of journalists, the interests of brands, and the impact of streaming on the visibility of racism.
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Throughout this week, we'll be giving out senior superlatives to our favorite games, digging into the year's biggest trends and stories (by way of the clubs, teams, and extracurriculars of Waypoint High), and we are following our favorite characters through their adventures together via original art… and fanfic. Yes.
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As our friends at Waypoint astutely noted in their review, Far Cry 5's writing tries to capitalize on the fact that it takes place in America for the first time in the series while Donald Trump is president, but it fails to say anything meaningful about that.
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As discussion swirled around how future embassies would build on this first iteration, the curators returned to the show's title as a philosophical waypoint, which is drawn from a paper by Jon Ippolito, "Death by Wall Label" that posits that for digital culture, staying put is tantamount to death.
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Waypoint Leasing Holdings Ltd in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York said the bid it received from Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing Holdings Ltd after a four-month marketing campaigns is its best available option for maximizing value for stakeholders and averting a potential piecemeal liquidation.
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Listen to Rob conduct an interview with Development & Research Director Amalia Luxardo from The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project here: Starting at 12:00 pm EDT on Thursday, October 18 and running through 12:00 pm EDT on Sunday, October 21, the Waypoint staff and community will be streaming on Twitch.
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I'll have more fully formed thoughts on Friday's episode of Waypoint Radio, alongside a longer essay on how Capcom approached a remake/reboot/reimagining, but a few quick thoughts, since the review embargo just lifted: I'll save the rest for later this week, but there's so much to chew on.
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I'm not the only one with lingering doubts about the future of E3 or the ESA, which is why on today's episode of Waypoint Radio, we dig into this topic (along with conversations about Anodyne 2, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, Star Wars: Outer Rim, and (of course) more Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
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Whether it's the hugely popular The Adventure Zone, the extensive list of Dungeons & Dragons streamers on Twitch, or even the Waypoint team roleplaying it up, it seems like there is a constant stream of content that you can find if you want to listen to people playing some kind of tabletop game.
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The pilot is told by Gander which point to head towards, programs the ending waypoint into autopilot, and the rest is smooth sailing—all because Gander does the difficult organizational work of keeping the hundreds of planes making the crossing on non-intersecting tracks with at least 140 miles separating each plane.
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For more, check out this excellent documentary about the game and its maker from our friends at Waypoint: I spent way too much time this year thinking about Gears of War 4 as part of my feature about the state of big budget games and why they're so hard to make in 2016.
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Now, ten years later, the Waypoint gang has to work through their complicated feelings about the Slate Political Gabfest and, in particular, the worldview they bring to their work as expressed by their recent episodes on the passing of George H.W. Bush and the assault allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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We also find time to answer a handful of questions from Waypoint friends and readers (thanks for sending them over), consider how going ahead with Brexit will impact the British video games industry, and look ahead to the possibility of a return to Fighting Fantasy, as it celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2017.
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Above: "The Killing of Bruiser Borody" from Dark Side of the RingOn a special bonus episode of Waypoint Radio, Austin Walker sits down with Evan Husney, producer and co-creator of Dark Side of the Ring, VICELAND's new docu-series that digs into the human stories behind six tragedies of wrestling history.
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The Westborough, Massachusetts-based company is a leader in what's known as hyperconverged infrastructure for IT. In this case, the customer was Waypoint Capital, who, after using SimpliVity's infrastructure solution at five of its global sites — and being impressed with the results — decided to lead a $175 million round of financing last year.
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Our demo—I play beside developer Moo Yu (who later guested on a bonus Waypoint Podcast, with his Foam Sword colleague Rex Crowle and Gang Beasts makers Boneloaf's James Brown)—leads us through a battered old amusement park to "the librarian", one of several islanders that need saving by our two heroes.
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Waypoint met with experiential gaming collective Kokoromi to discuss the game's retro-future aesthetic and what's next for the world of VR. VICE Meets: Marina Abramović Nearing 70, Marina Abramović talked to us about building a career off of subversive performance and how she's still pushing boundaries, causing controversies, and influencing the youth.
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On the first page, drone operators were asked to provide the following details about their mission: type of mission (out of six pre-set options that they could select, two indicated weaponized drone missions: 'Bombing' and 'Explosive Plane'), group members who were involved, location of the mission, and waypoint coordinates for the flight.
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Phantom Dust may not be the easiest game to describe: it has roots in the competitive shooter genre, with collectable card game elements, and a very unique aesthetic—but it made a huge impression on Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker, since it is one of his favorite games of all time.
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But before a few days off arrive, it's time for another episode of Waypoint Radio, wherein Rob, Danielle, and myself discuss my article about Telltale's ongoing technical problems, the tiny details in video games that make us happy, and Danielle's love for Capcom's Disney Afternoon Collection, a wonderful tribute to the company's NES games.
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The Cane and Rinse episode on the game repeated a sentiment I expressed on VICE Gaming, in the days before Waypoint, back in January 2015—that this game needs a reissue, a remaster, a remake, anything to get it back into player hands in a form that's easily acquired, outside of naughty-naughty emulation.
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Waypoint is pleased to publish a chapter from the book here, focusing on the release and reception of hit mobile app Ridiculous Fishing—a game that emerged from the troubled waters of a cloning scandal—and moving into the development of the singularly styled shooter LUFTRAUSERS, a game that would go on to be a little controversial itself.
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And from today's vantage point, the mix of mostly self-contained procedural stories and connect-the-dots mythology episodes makes it feel like a waypoint in the evolution of TV drama: Occasional viewers could enjoy the show's dry wit and honest-to-goodness scares, while more attentive fans were rewarded for their devotion via the overarching plot line.
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The first episode is all about our Future of Technology Issue: Elizabeth Renstrom, our photo editor, explains how we made the cover image; author and investigative journalist Emily Witt helps us explore the world of virtual reality porn; guest editors from Motherboard, Waypoint, and the Creators Project host a roundtable discussion; and, of course, we have much more.
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Watch more, from Waypoint: I'm purposefully skimming over a lot of the deeper, more particular mechanical aspects of both Hearthstone and Gwent here, so as to not confuse those who've not spent much time with the former, but are tempted to take the latter out for a hand or two, after enjoying it in The Witcher 3.
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Waypoint EIC Austin Walker had an in-depth chat with the game's writer, Charles Webb, on the game's approach to race as a lens for players to view this character and this (admittedly pulpy, crime-thriller) world through: Interestingly, and effectively, the game actually makes systemic racism an actual mechanic in the world—one that directly impacts the gameplay.
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"Whereas peasants and serfs were dispossessed of land and forced to urbanize and take up wage labor, internet users are being dispossessed of their time and attention, which are being enclosed through surveillance, then quantified and monetized," writes Dr. Daniel Joseph, a political economist (and Waypoint contributor) at the University of Toronto, who wrote his dissertation on Steam.
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When I first spoke about my love of the criminally underappreciated Unexplored on Waypoint Radio a couple of weeks ago, I focused on its most novel aspects: Its ability to foreshadow what will happen in deeper depths of the game's dungeon; its unique, "cyclical" level generation, which alleviates the amount of backtracking you need to do; its simple, yet deliberate combat.
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Listen to Austin discuss Frozen Synapse 2 on Monday's episode of Waypoint Radio: First of all, the church is a faction in its own right, one that will immediately cut their direct funding for you—up until you have a direct negative encounter with them, they'll hope that you'll go light on Sonata, and let it gather relics in peace.
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To understand what it was like to build Vox Populi, and if there was any tension over a patch that implicitly criticizes Firaxis' design, I spoke with designers Cristoph and Jeff Grooms (Cristoph asked for his last name to be kept private.) (This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.) Waypoint: Why'd you originally fall in love with Civilization?
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While the viewer still has some control issues, and the handling of pausing and playing is a little clunky, I have still been able to make some interesting documents of what it is like to play PUBG right now (if you're interested in talking about edited videos of PUBG, go check out the thread I made on the Waypoint forums).
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Article continues after the video below Waypoint caught up with Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aimé at E3 2017 Which just serves to highlight, by contrast, just how lost Forces feels—neither here nor there in terms of which Sonic era it can hang onto, and failing fans of both the 2D and 3D games by coming across as just barely competent in each discipline.
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None of these aspire to Naughty Dog levels graphical representation of their respective cities (real or fictional), but each has shown me sequences equally as cinematic, yet also offer me the ability to determine where and how to go about my set objectives (just listen to the most recent ep of Waypoint Radio at timestamp 42:00 for an example.) To be clear, I'm not dissing Naughty Dog here.
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Only five episodes of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games were ever made—four making up the first season, to accompany season five of the show, and only one episode was ever released from its second season, alongside the sixth season of TV. Watch more, on Waypoint: It's a shame because, in the end, the series turned out to be much more than just a video game tie-in.
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The latest episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast—as always hosted by the site's senior editor Mike Diver (who is me, hello)—welcomes Laura Kate Dale of Let's Play Video Games and several freelance gigs and Julian Benson of Kotaku UK to go over what it takes to break news in the gaming industry, when publishers and PRs are doing whatever they can to keep information under wraps.
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I spoke about the game briefly at the end of Monday's Waypoint Radio, but briefly: Sky Rogue is an arcade-y flight sim roguelite that feels like a blend of the Ace Combat series and Sega's arcade output in the mid 90s, and I don't just mean that it reminds me of Sega's Wing War in terms of lighting, visual design, and music (but you know, that too).
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Waypoint: I've been watching you play this running, modded game of Fallout 4 (and now New Vegas ) for like eighteen months now, but I think I only wrapped my head around what you were fully doing a earlier this year: Through a combo of mods, you're playing the games as post-apocalyptic sandboxes, taking the role of random characters associated with factions, and with randomly rolled motivations/allegiances/moral codes.
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It's a long interview, and we didn't cut much from it because A) Sean is an interesting speaker and B) We figured you would want to hear what Hello Games—well, Sean, specifically—has to say in their own words: Patrick Klepek (Senior Editor, Waypoint): You haven't really spoken publicly about the game since the launch and I'm curious what does it feel like to talk with us?
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Discussed: Resident Evil 563 5:06, Outer Wilds 16:200, Kingdom Hearts III 21:227, Anthem 247:21, Greedfall 228:13, The Waypoint Tech Corner 21:245, Sekirio: Shadows Die Twice 229:01:25, Metro Exodus 1:19:, Ace Combat 7 1:453:09, Apex Legends 1:24:00, Slay the Spire 1:27:47, Eliza 1:28:56, Telling Lies 1:45:29 You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and Stitcher.
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Every few weeks we get a question in to Waypoint Radio from a player who can't quite leave the game worlds they love behind: Andy in Sweden felt heartbroken to leave behind his "virtual hunk of a husband, Iron Bull," while Mike in Glasgow noted that beating The Witcher 3's main quest made the world feel lifeless and empty, because all of the memorable characters of the game's story seemed to have vanished.
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Article continues after the video below Watch: Waypoint speaks to Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aimé at E3 2017 But to leave them unstocked is to suffer in the field, as your town, your oasis in the middle of an otherwise pretty inhospitable desert, effectively has a happiness meter—and the higher that is, the more extra health points you (and your party of up to three) receive on leaving its sanctuary for exploration and combat.
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I've put more time and energy into heavier lifts than a story like this—there's one I spent the better part of a year working on for Waypoint, only to watch it all fall apart in the most frustrating way possible—but you have to be prepared to cut losses and realize not every story pans out, or the answers you end up with might not be interesting to anyone but you, and sunk cost just not justify publishing.
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One way or another, this election is almost over, which is why myself, Waypoint EIC Austin Walker, and Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau spent the opening minutes of this week's Monday podcast breathlessly talking about this… ...before we avoided talking about any of the "real" announcements at this weekend's BlizzCon—a Diablo remake coming to Diablo 3, the formal announcement of hacker character Sombra for Overwatch—and mulled what Blizzard's decision to embrace regional professional teams, ala the NFL or NBA, for Overwatch means.
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