N'Gai Croal is an American writer and a former

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and

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, previously employed by

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. Croal started out as consumer technology writer at Newsweek, later writing the Newsweek-associated Level Up blog. In 2008, Croal criticised alleged

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in the Japanese game ''

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''. In 2022, Croal joined Microsoft Game Dev as an editorial director, overseeing an online content hub devoted to game creators and game development.

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