Game:

Cuphead (2017)

Duration: 20:43

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Today ACE takes on the matter of making games appeal to a wider audience, and whether or not this can detrimental to games.
Links:

Rags debunking the argument that merely owning a game entitles someone to beating the said game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqHCduxnOBs

Journalist says Games need to be more accessible:
https://www.destructoid.com/i-like-it-hard-videogames-difficulty-and-cuphead-466358.phtml

Cuphead review criticizing inaccessibility:
https://www.gamespew.com/2017/10/cuphead-review-style-over-substance/

Game journalist talking about how PUBG is everything that shouldn't work according to the industry standards:
https://www.vg247.com/2017/10/18/does-the-success-of-pubg-prove-we-dont-need-progression-systems-in-games/

Game journalist preview of Kingdom Come Deliverance, in which the Journalist was critical that the game "too often puts realism ahead of fun:"
https://www.pcgamesn.com/kingdom-come-deliverance/kingdom-come-deliverance-battles

Ninja Gaiden 3 to be made more accessible:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-24-ninja-gaiden-3-will-be-more-accessible

Ninja Gaiden 3 interview, including the matter of accessibility:
http://www.gamingunion.net/interviews/2011/ninja-gaiden-3-interview-with-fumihiko-yasuda

Dead Space 3 will be more accessible:
https://gamerant.com/dead-space-3-coop-ea-fans-brian-155220/undefined

Interview in which EA says COOP will be added to make Dead Space 3 more accessible:
https://www.criticalhit.net/gaming/dead-space-3-is-going-to-be-more-accessible-for-larger-audiences/

Dead Space 1-3 sales:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=156354

Empire Earth 3 preview talking about how the game will be dumbed down:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/empire-earth-iii-preview

Empire Earth 3 user review:
https://www.gamespot.com/empire-earth-iii/user-reviews/2200-381986/

Books mentioning that publishers are making fewer games:
https://books.google.com/books?id=0vc2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=publishers+make+fewer+games&source=bl&ots=_w6lSFLO_5&sig=G19CODgvvDTS_iUoQFU1hj2Nf_Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9w7PdudLZAhWQoFMKHUEoBYk4ChDoAQhWMAY#v=onepage&q=publishers%20make%20fewer%20games&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=R7ixUTC8EpwC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=publishers+make+fewer+games&source=bl&ots=cxevBabv-n&sig=kegPz4IO_hjPTSAIRvySV0o2Rnw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9w7PdudLZAhWQoFMKHUEoBYk4ChDoAQgoMAA#v=onepage&q=publishers%20make%20fewer%20games&f=false

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