Compare the honesty and transparency of this post to, say, the people behind No Man’s Sky, who were receiving so many death threats before the game even released, it spilled over into journalists covering the game.

It absolutely does matter. Otherwise, we wouldn’t even need “first/second/third party” qualifiers. And it’s all about the expectations those qualifiers set among gamers.

We need to change the narrative on third party exclusives, because the old “it sells consoles” excuse no longer holds water. First party exclusives are the prime movers, and the potential marginal increase in the preferred platform’s sales from a third party exclusive is grossly disproportionate to the vast impact to…

Pilots strapped to the front of their power armor: Check.

Well, they still have the Gulls—

The lines when new players join a multiplayer game in BL2 are great. My favorite:

...the Uber driver in the front seat took control, according to company protocol, to allow pedestrians to cross the street, maneuver through a construction zone and make a left turn across traffic at an intersection.

Timely.

Suggested expansion: Matt Miller and Sean Fish. An awesome superhero tag-team, but at any random time after the halfway point of the game, an NCSoft exec spawns, just tells you that you’re dead, and the game exits to desktop and deletes itself from your Steam account.

Ooh, good point. In that case, I’ll say a Pandora channel seeded with Linkin Park, Staind, and Breaking Benjamin.

They aren’t theatrical or cheesy enough. Marilyn Manson.

“Hey, kids, nukes are back!”

Enough DPS to break a section of the wall before it times out, followed by a crowd-control power, like Roadhog’s hook, a McCree flashbang, Ana’s sleep dart, or if you really want to send a message, Reinhardt’s ultimate.

I’m with this artist (weird “enemy slashfic” thing aside). I get the “speed” angle for making Tracer a whippet, but her personality is definitely a smaller, yappier breed like a Jack Russell terrier.

Title: Just bite the bullet and call it Overwatchwatch.

Is there an email address for the Diablo III team I can mailbomb this to? Because whoever designed the Sescheron forest map has no concept of rest. My goodness, there’s always something in that sliver of space that’s just out of frame but still within the outer edge of aggro range that runs in to jump you while you…

That was an Autovista-only trailer queen. This one’s a runner.

And Mekkatorque, too. Azeroth would have been left with Prophet Velen up there in the Exodar saying, “Welp, we’re boned.”

Those cutscenes may be the best story-telling the WoW team has pulled off in years, especially if you play through on an Alliance character first.

This was the second time Travolta played a John Woo villain. The bad guy in Broken Arrow was a relatively uptight Air Force pilot, though, and his foil was the permanently sardonic Christian Slater. I’m sure he loved the opportunity to play off of and imitate Cage and take everything way over the top in Face/Off.…