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Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid elaborates on designing for an audience
Eliot Lefebvre
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July 18, 2017
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Did you know that Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is not meant to be for everyone? Probably, because the game sort of...
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