It’s true, most of us live such physically non-demanding lives that we don’t notice our bodies deteriorating until it gets really acutely bad, like you’re in your thirties and you hurt your back because you sneezed while putting on socks.

They don’t pay for the studio... unless the studio is Naughty Dog or Insomniac.

The first year I had GamePass, I spent about $120 on the subscription for the year. I also spent about $6 a month for Xbox Live Gold. That year, GamePass actually saved me about $180, when I compared the $120 the subscription cost compared the six games I definitely would have purchased for full-price at launch. Since…

I have to admit, as much as I hate console exclusivity, it does give me a certain petty satisfaction to see the shoe on the other foot for a change.

At least Microsoft’s exclusives are also available on PC, whereas I’m sitting here knowing I’ll likely never play another Spider-Man video game ever again.

It’s entirely possible Starfield will have support for mods on Xbox; Fallout 4 had mod support on the XBone.

There’s one exception to games eventually leave gamepass, and it’s 1st-party Microsoft games. They’re permanent.  That also retroactively includes games that were made by studios Microsoft has acquired.

There’s like a bazillion different types of races and events to do. Just a big open map with crazy shit to go do.

But yeah, I enjoy it the most when it’s what you described. 

The fact that their competitors in the console space have been outselling them, at least partly due to a strong roster of exclusive titles, is an important piece of context as well.

Exclusives are an extremely important part of getting people into your ecosystem, and that’s a very important part of console marketing,…

Take it easy guys they ain’t Pokemon cards

“We’ve been coming to this planet and probing these people for decades in the name of science, and all we’ve learned is that the Great Leader is some kind of twisted ass-freak!”

This is one of those games where I become quickly infuriated at the fact they force you to watch an unskippable short video of one of the games monster’s flying over the landscape every time you start the game.

It always kind of bugs me when they do stuff like this, but when  you need to restart the game as often as…

What if the overwhelming majority of games all had set-in-stone main characters that were of a different race and gender identity and sexual preference than you do... would you stop playing video games entirely?

If yes, then that would suggest that the precious primary demographic that you think video games should be…

And I thought of another - Rayla on The Dragon Prince (Netflix) also has two dads. One character is an Asian woman who is deaf and communicates in unsubtitled ASL, who has a mutual crush with a black woman as of the end of the most recent season.

Plenty of different races represented on that show: two of the main…

She-Ra also has an interracial lesbian couple in the cast, and the romantic tension between Adora and Catra is actually headed somewhere...

I think it’s important to point out that when you say “HBO Max confirmed Aqualad to be bi,” they didn’t do it meta-textually. They did it by showing him kissing his boyfriend on screen and having an actual relationship.

Also, technically, the DC Universe streaming service revealed it, since that’s where Young Justice…

I think it’s important to point out that the female version of Shepard was NOT actually on the cover of the game; it was the male version that was on the cover. FemShep was on the reverse side of the paper insert, so after you bought it you could take the insert out and flip it over and THEN she’d be on the cover.

She…

And if we’re talking about Tomb Raider, I’m not even sure how progressive that was. I’ve always gotten the impression that she was eye candy for boys rather than an actual female character.

If it’s as terrible as the DOA movie, I’ll love it.

True that. I was watching The Osbournes on a TV in a waiting room somewhere. They had subtitles on and one of Ozzy’s utterances was literally subtitled as:
“Sharon!!! [unintelligible mumbling]”

Well technically it doesn’t exist yet