The Last of Us 2 : A closer look at user scores

Are first time reviewers bringing the score down?

Posted on June 21, 2020

Naughty Dog is one of the few developers who have been able to appease critics and users alike with games such as the Uncharted series and The Last of Us. But with the recent release of The Last of Us 2, that seemed to come to an end with critics... [Read More]

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XBox One in Numbers: Charting 78 Months of journey

A Metacritic Adventure

Posted on May 22, 2020

2020-05-23-XBox_in_Numbers.utf8 Few year back in 2017, I analyzed the state of different consoles this gen when Wii U was also in the mix(Check here Xbox One in Numbers). As we are nearing a new generation for Playstation and Xbox families, I think it is a good time to relook at... [Read More]

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Visualizing Bangladesh Premier League Football 2019

Charting the rise of Bashundhara Kings

Posted on December 19, 2019

Though a bit late to the party, finally done with a racing bar chart with Bangladesh Premier League Football 2019 points table. Steps taken: * Scraped match data from web * Lots of cleansing and munging specially to interpolate a smooth transition between numbers * Animation (easy part) * Animation... [Read More]

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PC Game Releases this week (10-16 September)

Divinity Original Sin 2 and Dishonored expansion headlines this week

Posted on September 6, 2017

Another week and another truck load of PC games releasing this week. No fewer than 28 games are releasing in PC. This week big releases include Death of the Outsider expansion of the excellent Dishonored 2 and NBA 2k18. But my personal favorite this week is the release of Divinity:... [Read More]

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PC Game Releases this week (1-7 September)

Tyranny expansion and Rainbow Six Siege add-on incoming

Posted on August 30, 2017

September is near and 7 games are releasing in PC in 1st week of September (1-7). No biggie or AAA title to report but an expansion of Obsidian’s well received title “Tyranny” is on the way. Check out the games and their trailers below(If you are in smaller device, click... [Read More]

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Self-taught AI beats Pro Gamers

The end of human superiority may be nigh

Posted on August 11, 2017

In an exhibition match yesterday (11-August'17) in The International 2017, an AI developed by the team at [OpenAI](https://openai.com) has defeated [Dendi](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Dendi) , a champion pro-gamer in 1v1 match. In the best of 3 encounter, the AI won comprehensively by 2-0. It has also been revealed that the bot remains undefeated... [Read More]

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XBox One in Numbers: PS4 had 33% (58 in number) more great releases than XBox One

A Metacritic Adventure

Posted on July 13, 2017

Last week, I analyzed the reign of PS4 (Check here PS4 in Numbers) and many of you wanted to see similar for XBox One. So, here we are. Source Data The data has been collected through days of webscraping to ensure that my endeavour does not result in spamming requests... [Read More]

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