I feel modern gaming is actually starting to pass me by, and I’m not that sad about it. Games as service, loot boxes, games that don’t work without a day one patch... these just make me want to play Super Mario Brothers.

The unfortunate fact of the matter is that it doesn’t matter whether you, the consumer, want the devs and testers to avoid crunch. They’re not doing crunch to avoid online harassment. When I was working in games, I would’ve happily taken the brunt of an online bullying campaign or two over sleeping at my desk. It’s…

I state this all not to blame Williams for doing something wrong, but to address some of the dangers that occur when healthcare fails to provide. This certainly poses more of a personal and public risk, not to mention more of an economic drain, than if he’d simply been able to seek out care in a sane way from the…

By using unprescribed antibiotics, Williams just bred drug resistant bacteria that then broke through the physical barriers between his teeth and jaw. This gives the infection access not only to his blood, but to his cranial nerves, which can act like a highway to the brain.

For the uninitiated,swatting is a harassment tactic low level form of attempted murder by cop. 

In a game like eve with a perspective map that is the same and defined for all players, yes.

Demoralizing grind? I wonder how people will react to vanilla WoW?

I doubt anyone alive on the Earth today uses that term in any other way than as a homophobic slur.

I...wow.

Adding a feature that was promised to be there at launch two years later is “maintaining a game” now?

I don’t think telling any developer to follow this model is a good idea. Sure they are pushing free updates which is great. But its only because they borderline scammed millions of people into buying a fraction of what they promised. Multiplayer was supposed to be in the game 2 years ago, when they said it was there.

Where in the sweet fuck are these people when it comes to adapting media that isn’t European or even Western, or writing media about places that don’t fit that umbrella?

Secret of Mana is not a great game. It only was a great game.

The only people that loot boxes etc... ‘prey’ on are those who are incapable of delaying their own gratification.

I too would like to live in your dream world where console hackers don’t exist.

Just keep in mind that what you might think is legal versus illegal in your country might be a little different in another country. The same with what is morally ethical or unethical, since we’re all raised under different ideas of right versus wrong, etc.. In some cultures, and with that, even in certain past eras,…

“Quick, Ashley Birch... record a DLC voice track for Life is Strange: Before the Storm!

Dear HOJUX (and everyone else who thinks that way),

But the developers aren’t organizing and making their case. The voice actors are. I don’t understand why, for some people, news stories about X group engaging in union activity always seems to be a call to drop X down below Y in the pecking order. This is one of the most common, and insidious, forms of anti-union…

If they want residuals they can strike too.