as a musician myself, i'd kill to get exposure, paid or not. The problem is, everyone who makes music thinks they're some sort of god when in many...most cases they're just utter shit with imagined talent.

People always want something to be outraged about. Do I think people should work for free? No, but this definitely isn't a case of "hey we want you to work for us and not pay you". It's a contest to contribute to the game.

It's a pretty simple solution, when you think about it. If you don't support the fact that they're not going to pay you if you make the music for the game, and you don't think it's worth the time and effort to not get paid, then just don't make the music. Simple as that.

The only person or company that paid me to write this was Gawker Media. I'm sorry if you don't like seeing posts about The Sims 4, I just thought that images of gigantic toilets in one of the biggest games to launch in recent months was too good to pass up.

I'm so butthurt North America is not getting the First Print Edition.

Yeah, I think the key is a ton of changes that are perhaps variable/randomized in the code, so one pirate isn't quite sure what is going on, but only 100 other people have the same problem so there aren't any fixes for it.

We'll have a review next week I promise!

Or more like: "Professor, my dad told me be played something called Space Invaders, and my mother loves Bubble Bobble, and my grandad has stories about pinball and great mechanical gaming machines. Are you sure gaming only started in 1994?"

You have to go even more old school.

Scud launcher Poised to strike...

it's not $24 for both, it IS $12. $8 by themselves.

Great, now I'm going to be thinking, "Amazon Twitch", which sounds like a jungle infection.

Do it how was originally meant to be done of gtfo.

People don't agree with some of my taste in movies, music, and video games. I know that. But I also like to think that I make a case for why people should be curious and open to different kinds of work. I do this because I find it interesting. It's helpful. It's fun. It's a lot more fun than just panning things all…

In my opinion, Chess 3 is DOTA 2 and Chess 2 is Starcraft.

More critically, when your game is working from a single, fixed perspective the entire time, by definition you end up having to do a lot more with a lot less. A lot of the time players tend to fill in the blanks when presented with a 2d perspective on a game world, whereas 3d worlds encourage exploration and often…

A lot of people unfairly compare 16-bit era to the 32-bit. The 32-bit era is the first generation of 3-D consoles and it's more accurate to compare it with 8-bit games. And 8-bit JRPGs look pretty bad even more so than early 3-D JRPGs.

That one's is probably correct though. You know the term "Xmas?" That's actually the Greek "chi," which you now know as the combination "ch."

Somehow, that only makes it more impressive.

Yeah it sucks. But the original 360 was a poorly designed piece of crap. Not just that it broke down, but the entire console was just rushed and a failure. No wi-fi, no HDMI out cable, a power brick that overheated for quite a few people, CD drive scratching up your discs, the list just goes on.