I’m intrigued by the minimalist digital gauges. You can kinda see the S40 peeking through in the overall shape, but who needs all that internal combustion telemetry in a BEV? And the clock has me thinking somebody at Polestar is a Rush fan.

You know, as much as my Atlas Park-dwelling heart hates to admit it, NCSoft has learned from CoH, Auto Assault, and Tabula Rasa. AA and TR were given up after shaky starts, but they gave Carbine every chance to turn Wildstar around. And ANet is exactly where Paragon Studios was: CoH was in its long tail phase but…

I don’t worry so much about Day One. That’s a necessary evil of physical distribution. It’s the Day Ten, Day Twenty, and Day Thirty patches that can be signs of trouble, especially when the game is primarily single-player and/or offline.

There’s an alternate universe where Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Anthem all launched flawlessly, because Bioware had the balls to tell EA brass when DA:I development started, “No, we’re not throwing away our well-understood and well-tested Unreal Engine toolchain. Tell DICE to catch up to our…

This sounds like one of those “internal testers found out that obeying the laws of physics made this game system horribly unfun” things. In this case, accounting for gravity in flight probably led to players repeatedly stuffing themselves head-first into the ground like lawn darts every time they pitched downward.

In 2014, they gave a private demo where they said they might.

What Microsoft may or may not have said in a PRIVATE Gamescom demo in 2014 has no bearing on their PUBLIC statements, which did not define where destructable environments would be until 2015. Which also does not excuse in any way what “journalists” across tech media are reporting in 2019.

2015, when gameplay was publicly demonstrated for the first time.

The E3 2014 announcement was only a pre-rendered trailer, not game footage.

Microsoft explicitly stated that it was multiplayer-only at E3 2015.

“This is odd, because if you recall Crackdown 3’s announcement and the first few waves of pre-release hype a few years back, you might remember that the whole thing was supposed to be built upon unprecedented environmental destruction enabled by Microsoft’s fancy cloud computing.”

My last VAG product was a 2003 Audi A4 wagon, back when you could get a non-allroad wagon in the US, and I’d describe it as a lovable mutt. It was caught up in the Great 1.8l Turbo Ignition Coil Debacle of 2003, but after that, it was solid as a rock. (BTW, has anybody heard any praises or horror stories about the…

2019 A4 allroad starts at $45,700.

Just because you don’t need those opt[full-page overlay obliterates everything]

Marvel left James Gunn

No “Welcome to The Black Parade”? Really?

Flanks and side alleys for days. First point reminds me of Anubis A, but without the overhead chokes. Maybe some lessons learned from Busan Downtown, too. Second point is like Volskaya B, but with more flanking space, less verticality, and a big statue in the middle that might as well have “WRECKING BALL SWING HERE”…

The exact quote from Valve is that it’s “unfair to Steam customers”. The head line just says “Valve Says It’s ‘Unfair’”. Now read the number of comments that take the headline at face value and assume that Valve is talking about themselves, and ask yourself if the headline is misleading or not.

AMD should stop trying to dance around it and just say, “We’re riding Nvidia’s coattails on ray tracing, because the early-adopter pains will harm their reputation more than being late to market will harm us.”

For the record, Subban did get penalized for that play. He and Ryan Reaves got offsetting unsportsmanlike conduct minors for their attempted fight. Subban got a second minor for roughing, though, and I cant’ see any reason for it other than giving Bellemare the Inverted Mandible Claw. How Ekholm walked away unscathed…