overwatch 2 is free

exactly. due to hale’s semi-celebrity status, at least among VA talent, i’m guessing she netted a flat rate deal north of 100K.

platinum have taken a swan dive into an empty pool after nier automata. bayo 3 looks like mediocre shit and all of their other recent work is frankly boring as shit.

couterpoint: these price points will ensure that the cards remain available to media professionals—visfx boutiques, for instance—who actually need these cards to stay competitive for work. scalpers shouldn’t be able to easily afford them, miners can go fuck themselves and gamers don’t really *need* them—they just want…

that must explain why it’s so well-liked. 

i am really glad they went with something less obvious here—but the dancing bat ladies were among my favourite characters in the game, for sure. i would love something like this.

the superficial aesthetic of the world may remind of Dishonoured but I swear to god they just traced over Yarnham in order to design this world and its characters. The spaces and characters *feel* like Yarnham has been re-skinned

this is very “trump era”—who needs compassion, after all? useless feelings. 

admittedly, 500K to fund a videogame is pathetically low. they should’ve cancelled their kickstarter and sought an alternative funding method. 

did you know that james bond is public domain in canada?

keep in mind our limited pov on the matter and apply some common sense to fill in the interpretation gaps—in this manner we can avoid being guided by bias to come to conclusions that primarily satisfy our egos rather than the truth. 

that 4 million is just compensatory damages—i.e. the cost of the trial and associated expenses for the family. next up is punitive damages, which are decided separately. they are often higher figures as they are more abstract in nature. i guess we’ll find out tomorrow or early next week.

do you have a steam library? i’d say that a lot of the best games for steam deck, namely indie games like hollow knight, dead cells, etc, are already available for switch. so the deck appeals mostly to pc gamers who feel like getting a switch would be redundant, but still want to play games portably.

not overly hostile. this blog is basically “things we’re shitting on today” at this point. 

it kind of sucks that the Vikander film basically salted the earth on the only good tomb raider story worth adapting. i’m afraid they’ll have to take the cringey jolie interpretation again.

although it’s funny to think that Phil Fish and D’Astous are basically saying the same thing—that modern Japanese game developers are a shadow of their former selves. with some notable exclusions.  

i think that sony’s acquisition of square enix is basically inevitable at this point. but it seems kind of pathetic, in a way. square enix, from an outsider’s perspective, should be a powerhouse, independent developer. 

‘ In previous years, there were simply not enough games on the console to justify having folders.’

is misreading a game the same thing as the game saying something unintentional? does a game need to account for every unique form of media illiteracy? 

true story: my wife is from Kowloon! she was only a very young child when she lived there, but her memories were not miserable. her family lived there to save money and every day travelled across the bay to Hong Kong island to work.