Elephants in pink skirts! That was random, right? That means I'm funny, right? This week on The List we're talking about randomness in video games. How games use randomness, how they hide randomness and, sometimes, how they lie about randomness. Dun dun DUN! In the news this week is an update to the Rockstar-UK tax story from.... well... forever ago, Disney and video games, and viruses in China. Very interesting. Come listen.

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Read more about Randomness:

https://kotaku.com/randomness-in-video-games-is-not-all-the-same-1841049263

https://twitter.com/gaohmee/status/903510060197744640?lang=en

http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/how-designers-engineer-luck-into-video-games

News:

https://wccftech.com/rockstar-got-37-6-million-in-video-games-tax-relief-this-year-report/

https://screenrant.com/disney-sells-fox-video-game-studio/

https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/27/21083611/coronavirus-outbreak-china-esports-tournaments-lpl-canceled-wesg

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