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The Obligatory (Not) E3 2023 Round-Up, Part 2: Sifting through the Slop

Alright, it's been a while but we're back again to cover the PC Gaming Show, the Xbox Showcase and the Ubisoft Forward. After this, that's it, that's all, we're done here. PC Gaming Show The Most Questionable Stuff 3. Road to Vostok (???) Choosing to look down on a game for overt familiarity from the word ‘go’, even if all it has done at this point is have its existence announced to the world, is not inherently an act to be proud of. Much of gaming iterates and builds upon what came before, much of the medium as it stands (for good or ill) exists because someone looked at a past work and were inspired to develop their own take on the material. How many excellent games would cease to be if people decided that “it’s just a clone of X” was a valid argument in itself? I establish this now to make it clear that I do not roll my eyes at Road to Vostok for taking the form of a sparsely-populated shooter set in a post-apocalyptic wilderness area… but rather because it loo
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The Kurt of Cambridge blog is a place for the personal writing, criticism and assorted Internet content of interest to Kurt Hvorup. Any material that appears here is either directly made by, or endorsed by Kurt (with the latter case being noted as such whenever it appears in a post).

Who is Kurt Hvorup?

Kurt Hvorup is an independent writer and content producer with years of experience in media criticism and pop-culture news writing. At present he works as a freelance writer for WatchMojo, contributing scripts for various Top 10 videos. He also has bylines with the likes of KeenGamer and We Got This Covered, and previously ran the blog Gamer Codex.

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Top 10 Classic Western RPGs (WatchMojo)

Top 10 Revenges in Anime (WatchMojo)

Top 10 Dark Souls Fan Theories! (WatchMojo)

This Is The Police Review (KeenGamer)

Pokemon GO Losing Millions of Daily Users (KeenGamer)

Interplay Planning To Sell Off Its IPs (KeenGamer)

Electronic Arts Fires 900 In "Organizational Restructuring" (We Got This Covered)

Ouya Dev Finds Another Problem With System (We Got This Covered)


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