The biggest cost of TF2 wasn’t hosting official servers, but dev time. That said, Valve is essentially a giant, leaderless studio of “self-directed” workers who form adhoc teams by literally dragging their desks together to work on projects they find personally interesting.

I still get this sense of awe and wonder whenever I fire up a 64 and a tube TV. There’s this sense of being part of the future of something and everything being limitless...

geez, that sucks. I had been hoping tobmass effect / xcom declassified gameplay formula had been refined. Guess I'll keep on dreaming. =(

“left-wing anarchists” aren’t burning buildings en masse, but white supremacist boogaloo boys are — they came armed and ready. The two Matts, Shea and Gaetz, have written manifestos and are currently egging boogaloo boys on in hopes of starting a race war.

There cannot be peace for all until there is first justice for all. Thank you.

this reminds me a lot of the failed mobile dungeon crawler, Legacy Quest.

The store is... fine? It’s the lack of an integrated mod workshop that gets me, though.

Play By Cloud or network play *should work*, but the Internet Games bit is siloed by store. Going to investigate deeps and will poke back.

Only possible way for this to be any worse is if it launches as a timed Epic Games exclusive on PC.

Ever since the dawn of the corporation, the nation has existed to serve the corporate good. true of industrial age Britain, true of post-WW2 America, and true of Dengist China.

wild and somehow appropriate that a cybernoir horror game is now funded by (and partially owned by) Tencent, this century’s version of the British East India Company.

Women make up a full half of video game players, though you’d never know it because harassment is so bad few women use mics, even in games where women are a large share of, if not, the primary playerbase. The problem is both social and structural: there are quite a few misogynistic dorks out there, and it only takes tw…

With all respext, Billi, shut up.

I.... dig it? Yeah! I dig it.

Will EA will go free to play and cross play with it in an attempt to horn in on Destiny 2 and Warframe’s market segment? That’s a possible reason to continue development as most of their initial costs have already been paid, though not recouped.

Even after he’s gone from Kotaku (but not our hearts), Jason is still delaying games.

If the mobile releases are any indication, he contributes to the design document and miiiiiight be supplying motion capture to projects, but that’s about the extent of his contributions to recent projects.

The second was really good, but Style Change mechanics and the sheer amount of content made MMBN3 ever-so-slightly one of the best romps of yesteryear. HeatGuts for life!

where is MegaMan Battle Network 3, you monsters? why you do my boy Lan dirty like this?

that’s true! I snagged Platinum for 35 Canadian funbucks via an official 2K partner. my friends bought at full price on steam, which I find endlessly amusing.