I must admit I’m not fully clear on what this article is about apart from shouting at clouds. Physical media is dying, has been for some time. People want to play games with massive amounts of hi-res content on relatively cheap consoles and don’t want to invest in pricey desktops or gaming laptops. You can’t do that…

These sites have become so much more prominent. They’re usually recognizable as brain-dead obvious information repeated over and over in multiple ways. The occasional just-plain-wrong “fact” slips in there as well. I’m looking at one right now that regurgitates incredibly obvious information(Gary Sinise was not…

It’s probably just the accent but to me she sounds like Jo Brand.

I understand why people want to weigh in on both sides, but seriously, this is something made to generate cash. You can romanticize it all you want, “saying goodbye to Indy” and “a cinematic journey reaches the end of the road”, but with the rumours swirling about the cheques everybody took home, it’s about the money,…

It was really just a matter of time - spindles are fine for mass data storage where you don’t need fast access but otherwise they have been on the way out for some time now.  Whether or not I would let this particular game be a reason to get one(I’m already all-in with SSD) remains to be seen but I applaud the fact…

I’m just hearing about this “scandal” for the first time - what a load. The entire Epic Marketplace and the legalities behind it are set up to sell assets precisely like motion clips to allow devs to save money not having to mocap someone standing from a sitting position for the one millionth time. There are also a…

We’ll see how it evolves. Nintendo will always have it’s fans that give almost every single Mario-related game a 10 out of 10(the media journalism surrounding Switch games seems highly dubious with nothing but raving scores). However, pathetic networking options, triple AAA level pricing that never goes on sale, aging…

Yep...I welcome the opportunity to “spend” my points on something other than hats. Literally the only thing they have “for sale” on the store that even slightly interests me are the steam deck keyboard overlays. Startup movies sound like fun.

It’s OK, I failed where you are strong. I caved and treated myself to a Steam Deck for my birthday. It’s just awful - the way the controls fall under your fingers in just the right spot, the weight surprisingly not as heavy as everyone made it out to be...my huge Steam library greeting my on first login, the ease of…

Well, it *is* a game. I know those that love the game will get all defensive about it, but there’s are literally a handful of games that have enough of a well-written story to compete with a well written movie/show/novel/graphic novel. Even movie/shows have rare enough instances of excellent writing. The story in TLOU…

Some writers hate actually writing. The rest *really* hate it. It’s hard work, it’s tedious, it means constantly “killing your babies” and starting over...Stephen King’s book “On Writing” has been the single most insightful tome on the process for me personally. Of course I’m only slightly joking, but there’s no…

I’m actually finding some of the me-too reviews hyping it as a GOTY(before the first quarter of the year has finished), one of the greatest games ever and the game that will win over the mainstream. Well yeah, they might con enough mainstreamers into buying it, but it’s still the style of game from that studio, with…

The level of toxicity in gaming culture is mind-boggling. Just working with a team on a game has levels of grumbling, whining, rumor-mongering that wouldn’t be put up with in other business except for the fact they need to get a game out. People in your own team will spit out anon social media saying how “my boss…

Yep. I’m marveling at a couple of pending responses to your post vacillating between BURN IT DOWN and “I don’t see any problem!”. The gaming community has evolved over the decades into a writhing Cthulhu of testosterone-spiked self-entitled rage. They’ll spend hours building screaming arguments over a game that has…

Might be a disputable point but why disallow Portal grind server XP? I mean, is it taking money from their pockets? The argument that it means super-soldiers slaying noobs in the regular maps sooner is more of a game balance issue that they need to deal with anyway. If somebody wants to spend hours grinding away so…

I’m still so tempted to buy, simply because Portal intrigues me and I’m in the mood for a new shooter. Unlike Cyberpunk, which I firmly believe no amount of patching will ever fix because the problems are rooted in the basic approach to storytelling, this one can be saved by fixing broken things, which I think is…

I’ve almost bought this game three times. Thing is, equally blasphemous, I haven’t enjoyed the Battlefield series much at all since 3 - I played the hell out of all the series up until that but there was something intangible that happened with 4 that hasn’t changed for me, and it left me feeling like I was playing a…

I’m not sure why all the sometimes-violent reactions. This is simply another misfire from another massive corporation completely out of touch with it’s potential customers. Remember the virtual lock key that would allow an Amazon delivery person into your house to leave your groceries in the kitchen, presumably not…

I have been a huge fan of CD Red ever since the Witcher series started, culminating in the third entry which is IMHO one of the best games ever created. However, a huge reason for that is they had wonderful source material for the stories, and with Cyber they just seemed to discover that writing is hard. I admire their…

I’m a new player as of 3 weeks ago(I’m actually really enjoying it) and I guess I just picked a good server. The worse I’ve gotten at the peak times is a queue of 40 in front and the wait time rarely exceeded 30 seconds. Thanks, impatient players!