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      <title><![CDATA[40 FPS Isn't a Compromise. It's a Divisor.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Capping a Steam Deck game at 40fps only works if the panel is running at 40Hz. The number everyone repeats is LCD-specific, and on an OLED it is the wrong one.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Motion Blur Is Not a Feature, It's a Fog Machine]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Save File That Existed in Two Places and Trusted Neither]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Day Your Couch Became a Portal (and Refused to Let You Leave)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Modern games are extraordinarily good at starting a session and strangely bad at ending one. A look at the design patterns that make stopping hard — and which of them are honest.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Tab You Never Closed Politely Refuses to Die]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[That browser tab has been open for eight months. It is not laziness — it is an externalised to-do list, and the browser has quietly started treating it as furniture.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Accessibility Features Are Making Games Better for Everyone]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Subtitles, remappable controls and difficulty options started as accommodations and became defaults everybody uses. What that pattern says about how games get designed.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Baldur's Gate 3 — A Masterclass in Player Choice and Narrative Depth]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Baldur's Gate 3 is praised for choice, but what makes it work is that it treats failure as content rather than as a mistake to be undone. A look at how the reactivity holds up — and where it frays.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hogwarts Legacy Brings the Wizarding World to Life Like Never Before]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The castle is the achievement. Hogwarts Legacy is at its best as a place to be and weakest as a game about being a student — and the gap between those is the whole review.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Photo Mode is Turning Gamers into Virtual Photographers]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo mode began as a marketing screenshot tool and became a genuine creative practice — with real composition, real constraints, and an awkward question about authorship.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI in Gaming: Smarter Worlds and Characters]]></title>
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