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The 14 Best Parrying Mechanics in Video Games
While parrying has been a part of action games for decades, it arguably truly entered the mainstream with the release of FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Ever since this masterpiece, games where parrying is front-and-center have been sprouting like mushrooms after a rain. While Not all of these games are third-person soulslikes, many of them are. That said, there’s plenty…
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Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift
The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift. Drifting is the most common term for an issue where joysticks detect false inputs — even when no one is touching a controller — causing unwanted movements to happen in a game. The issue…
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