Earlier this week, I was reading about how Japanese companies treat the musical works of composers like Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda. While not every case is the same, western companies very much like a sense of ownership entirely in how they handle music as a work-for-hire situation, while Japanese studios…

Original or ver. Ka MG? I built the original ages ago. Still on display in my cabinet, but I’ve been salivating over the ver. Ka and RG version designs.

Needs more funnels. 

Certainly sounds like him, and having him face off against Eric in the trailer is DEFINITELY a “if you know, you know” decision. 

She was the original Lady Gaga. 

I say this every time a new season is announced, and I will continue to beat this drum:

Considering I just read that Alan Wake Remaster is thankfully losing product placement, this feels especially weird. Lol.

They were VERY blatant at times... During the escape from the lodge - a very tense, horror moment - I stumbled upon a creepy TV that just... started playing a normal Verizon ad in full. Sucked out all the tension of the scene.

There’s a psychological study on this, because product placement is MEANT to distract you from anything happening around you. So when you’re invested in the psychological thrills of Alan Wake and trying to escape a foreboding, supernatural darkness in a haunted lodge as deranged creatures stalk you in the shadows,…

And yet George STILL hasn’t given us a new book in 10 years. 

Well, this wasn’t just a one-off disgruntled mail carrier. This was a SIZABLE portion of the studio that clarified that the treatment was outright “abusive”, with a majority of that coming from the female staff.

My introduction to Poets of the Fall. Loved “Poet and the Muse”. 

It’s a wide spectrum, but in none of that is “I was mistreated” ever a ringing endorsement. 

Look, I’m just glad there aren’t a dozen retailer-exclusive DLC bonuses for pre-ordering only through Target or Best Buy or something. All in all, this is pretty simple as a cross-generation game that was always going to have at least a digital and physical release on old and new platforms.

There are hundreds of amazing, quality non-Activision Blizzard games that exist. I encourage people to check them out instead.

Anyone who quotes Mister Rogers has the right role models. 

I’m intentionally playing a new class, FemShep, new romances, etc.

I feel like a lot of the wrong lessons have been learned here.

I will take Navi over Fi any day, and that is truly saying something.

This is a weird article. It’s like pointing out that fans like the Mortal Kombat techno song in Mortal Kombat.