Avery Ellis's posts
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How Warcraft Got Its Name
I lost hours of my youth playing online StarCraft matches, nearly lost entire friendships to the scourge of World of Warcraft. In all that time, it never occurred to me why Blizzard uses that -craft suffix on those games, or what it could possibly mean. At last, I have the answer. Other non-Blizzard games have…
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Players Find the Closest Approximation to Wavedashing in Smash Bros. 4
Melee players have been complaining about Smash 4’s limited movement options for years, but now a whole new slew of techniques called “bidou” have been discovered to make Smash 4 a whole lot faster. Although I haven’t had the opportunity to test it for myself yet, players like cayiikaSmash, KidUncommon, and Tarou Tanaka have posted…
By Avery Ellis