What Happens After A Game Dies?
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People love to say that videogame genres are dying. Soulslikes are dying, battle royales are dead, turn based RPGs have kicked the bucket - the list goes on, but are these games destined to join an ever growing pile of deseaced genres or is there something more going on?
See, The Architect has been doing a bit of investigating and after delving too one too many graveyard, it's starting to become all too clear that the line and death of videogame genres isn't anywhere near as neat as we've been led to beleive, and that some games that have appeared to die might actually be alive and well...
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