Couple of things, 1: ‘cast’ is past, present and future tense of itself without modification, so “she was cast in this role” or “she will get cast in this role,” no -ed necessary

I hard disagree about virtually everything you’ve said. They’re very respectful of the time of the player, but it sounds like it isn’t gameplay and pacing you enjoy. You’re describing deliberate things as if they’re inherently flawed, when in reality it’s intentional design for an audience that likes it.  You…

“Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Holes?” Thank you for asking, Bezos-mart, but no, I literally didn’t mean anything of the sort.”

You obviously dont like the Xenoblade games and their mechanics. I will make an educated guess: XC3 wont be for you, either.

What a surprising turn of events!  The people accused of the harassment investigated themselves and decided they never did it.  Seems legit.

OK, I believe them.

“As popular as Riverdale or Supernatural were at the height of their powers...”

It's not the sequel I always wanted.  It's the cheap knockoff I always expected... 25 years ago.  Today?  Not interested.  Games have evolved for a good reason.  You can pay homage to the past without just being the same (and possibly worse).

In terms of your alcohol comparison, this is something I thought about before I actually read your comment and the first thing I thought of was that someone might try to make this similar argument. However, Diablo Immortal isn’t analogous to alcohol. Maybe the whole freemium games market is, but not one game. A better…

“So why not exploit the freeness and walk away at the moment of paying?”

Sorry, John, but I did read your entire article. And yes, many of our opinions do run counter to your own because the argument isn’t simply “Diablo is exploitative” which you clearly understand, it’s that the exploitation it contains, the skinner box that ActiBlizzard uses to hack the brains of neuro atypicals who can…

Nope. Listen, I’ve loved Diablo from day 1, played Hellfire, used to wake up before school to grind for runes in D2, and enjoyed D3 post auction house, but there is no way in hell I’m downloading Immortal. Yeah, I could play for free, but number of downloads is still a metric Blizzard uses; number of “potential…

Isaiah already mentioned a few of the big ones, but there are a lot more, like "Wanna Be the Strongest in the World" and "Himomaru Sumo".  There are also a lot of anime with wrestling as an element or inspired by it, such as Kemono Michi: Rise Up.  It's an Isekai with the main character being a pro wrestler.

If you mean Persona 5, she’s not a home school teacher, she's not particularly pear shaped, she doesn't do anything with prostitution (it certainly isn't forced) and the fact that you keep it secret is definitely an indicator that it's not above board.  Though it's not really the game's job to teach morality, ethics…

A disturbing number of professional smash players were exposed for grooming underage girls and other nasty stuff. So that means it’s okay for people to label the entire playerbase as such every chance they get!

Sincerely: what’s the joke?

Tiger Mask W and Ultimate Muscle come to mind.

This is the best article ever written in the entire Gizmodo franchise.

My kid is hyped for it. Maybe the target audience is not people who were playing the series more than a decade ago.

I don’t think the word “everyone” means what you think it means. There are plenty of us who still enjoy pokemon and are just as excited for this as we ever were. Even more so seeing as this appears to be one of the bigger evolutions for the franchise.