PSA for anyone confused by Nerf Now: he’s in the middle of doing a Binding of Issac miniseries.

Names yes, voice lines and backstory no, most NPCs are indeed just background and use an assortment of generic NPC voices. It’s looking like Blizzard just took a bunch of them, applied the new customization options given to players and hit the randomize button.

I keep up with Heroes of the Storm, and even 3 years after being put into maintenance mode and getting most of their funding cut, the tiny skeleton crew of a dev team continues to keep the game updated with balance patches, character reworks and even responding to feature or content requests from the community.

Well, let’s just hope these are the guys they put in charge, because it’s a hell of a pitch they’ve put together...

It’s gone beyond the lawsuit, that’s Activision’s big problem. It’s one thing to have bad press about a faceless corporation doing bad things, it’s another to have an individual person as the root of those bad things. Kotick has become this scandal’s big villain and it’s escalated the situation beyond “Activision must…

It’s hard to say at this point, we’re in uncharted territory here. Conventional wisdom says that Activision will do some PR nonsense, Kotick will squeak by with no lasting repercussions and in a few months it’ll just blow over...but they’ve already been trying that and it hasn’t worked.

Riot’s been doing a lot of work giving fans what they want with this and the anime and whatnot (presumably, I’m not a League fan myself but this announcement and Arcane all seem to have been hitting the right notes). The same definitely cannot be said for Blizzard.

The idea that someone would get away with doing this purely on professionalism standards is just insane. I can understand casual language being used for internal team emails, but using something this childish as a signature?

It really sounds like they’re playing it a lot safer and taking it back to basics this time around, which makes sense given how much of a disaster Halo 5 was. I only hope they don’t completely ditch the Cortana and Prometheans plot thread: they were making decent strides in expanding the Halo formula with a new enemy…

Those Hunt the Truth trailers did more to get me hyped up for Halo 5 than anything else: the implication that this would be a more complex story, with both Chief and the new guy (i.e. Locke) doing destructive things in pursuit of well-intentioned but misguided goals- Locke thinking Chief had gone crazy, Chief…

Makes a lot more sense that this could be going on unnoticed for so many years if Kotick himself wasn’t just aware of the harassment but actively working to cover it up. I mean, we all suspected certainly, but getting confirmation is nice.

The unfortunate thing about history is that we have a tendency to idolize and white-wash our cultural heritages to ensure that we can feel good about who we are and where we come from, when the truth is that every hero, pioneer or paragon in history had their dark side. We get this idea in our heads that if someone…

I mean, that’s the conservative MO: rules and standards for thee but not for me. They’re all about mocking everyone else, but as soon as they’re the butt of a joke, they get all up in arms about the need for respect and common decency. Try to point out this double standard and they’ll complain of censorship and…

I can’t speak to Diamond/Pearl, but a lot of hurt feelings around Sword/Shield had to do with a severe monkey’s paw effect: fans have been asking Nintendo to do a console Pokemon game for decades, a big-budget RPG that really lets you explore the world, and what we essentially got was a handheld game ported up to…

Having had quite a bit of experience tutoring seniors in the use of technology over the past two years, I can definitely say that teaching older people how to use tech like video games is challenging but rewarding. You have to condition your brain to deconstruct everything you know on the subject, recognizing just how…

For example, Camera Shake may live in the Quality menu (in the article screenshot) but it also appears in the Cognitive, Motion, and Motor accessibility menus.

Oh, I wasn’t saying that the game’s userbase is entirely in China, just that it could do so while 90% of its population was completely unaware of it, putting the number in perspective rather than pulling them out of my ass. I do, however, think that the majority of their userbase is in China with a smaller smattering…

They put the setting under motor accessibility presets. If the setting wasn’t intended to affect physical control (not just nausea and visual effects), why would it be included in a motor control accessibility preset?

There’s a difference between the camera shaking and slowly climbing upward due to recoil. One causes nausea, the other does not.