I’m awful with twitch shooters, but there’s a whole other way to play Halo 5 pvp that’s fun for me and might work for you too: play Warzone and camp strange places on the maps where the other team will be running past you to attack the spawning AI boss and shoot them while they’re distracted. Their fancy high Req…

Agreed. And many of those Avengers sound like they’re a degree below Kick-Ass. Kudos to Justice for locking up that domain name as soon as it lapsed.

As long as the overwhelming majority of those banned are cheaters, it’s a good policy. Better that a few are innocently banned if the policy protects many players and keeps the multiplayer ecosystem healthy in general. A general reputation of “eh people are always cheating on there” is a rapid way to shrink the pool…

People are so desperate to feel a little bit powerful in their lives that they’ll break rules to advantage themselves in a virtual game about intelligent silverbacks and morphing robots, that’s why.

That video is surprisingly/uncomfortably precise actually...

We complain now but c’mon, there’s more of us who’d pay a $1 microtransaction for the “Escape by Successfully Mantling Low Walls” pants than we care to admit.

The WW1 setting is novel for FPS games. But look at it this way: the game industry spans so much that success for the industry increases the likelihood that original IPs get bankrolled. Sure, there will always be the drive to iterate on successful bases, but if even Candy Crush can’t distract from the growth of…

He meant Blood and Rose’.

1st lol of the day. Thank you!

Totally agreed. I try not to shoot at Winstons because the Baby Winston from the shorts pops to mind every time. Love of the characters makes me a bad teammate. ...But his glasses from his scientist friend though!

I do agree that it’s a sentiment that should give pause, but like you said: hopefully it leads to something better for the industry. Holding devs back from feeding consumers’ escalating appetites for improved qualities in one factor or another is how MS has stayed MS while Apple has bounded forward.

True, and that’s an even closer metaphor. A lot of consumers are in a bubble about their specific industry area.

Welcome to consumer products. If you’re content with your 2011 car despite new models coming out each year, you’ll be fine with Xbox One gen 1.

It’s new to the console market, but not to consumers in general. Coming out with something incrementally advanced that intentionally accelerates owners’ dissatisfaction with their purchased model is standard, and console gaming is spreading enough that standard practices in other industries will only increase in…

What a shocker when a game decides to give new shooter players a solid footing with an easy-to-use character. “But they didn’t EARN IT.”

I can’t get into the game, but I really like the game world/characters, kind of like Final Fantasy: couldn’t play but looks awesome.

You make me Beam with pride.

...complete with the unveiling at the end of a new wall-sized bingo board and Kirk being unruffled and affably confident about that next frontier.

I enjoy your comment much more when I picture you dictating this in a robo-friendly voice in a crowded location.

Kirk’s Inter-species Makeout Bingo game is strong.