Steve Hogarty is… The Fixer

Steve searches for the antidote to ubiquitous toxic sludge

Hello there reader, and welcome to The Fixer, the monthly column in which I – the rotting bag of salad leaves that fell down the back of Official Xbox Magazine’s kitchen cupboards and came to life one day – set out to fix gaming’s most tired clichés and indelible tropes. In my long career as the games industry’s court-appointed fixer-upper, I’ve solved problems of every imaginable shape and size. Did you know? Before I came up with the idea of adding guns to games, it was convention to have every enemy soldier simply faint out of fright when you walked into a room. And until I published my Pulitzer-Prize-winning essay ‘Not Everything Has To Be Set On A Blimp, You Know’ every single game took place either inside or on…

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Official Xbox (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2020

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