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What's on your bookshelf: Nyamakop and Relooted's Marcia Shange
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What's on your bookshelf: Nyamakop and Relooted's Marcia Shange

Hello reader who is also a reader! It's finally time for another edition of our thrillingly erratic column on game developers and their bestest books. This week, we're having our ears bent by Marcia Shange, chief operating officer of South Africa, Johannesburg-based developers Nyamakop, creators of puzzle platformer Semblance and the forthcoming postcolonial heist 'em up Relooted. Cheers, Marcia! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? Read more

Don't like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say "that most likely won't change"
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Don't like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say "that most likely won't change"

For all of their faults (the list may be endless), the interesting thing about live service games, when done well anyway, is the way they can change from day to day. There's an actual living quality to them that, even if I'll always prefer them, a singleplayer game can't capture as well. One such game that can change quite drastically is Arc Raiders, with its varying map conditions and events, swapping in and out at the whims of its developers. This rotation isn't something universally loved,