You can still buy music and movies. I know, because I do! But I can look at all my similarly aged friends and family, and find that they’ve all, despite being born in the media-buying generation, now rely exclusively on streaming for both. They transitioned, not from a lack of options, but because of the convenience…

This reeks of desperation

I’m sick of Steve Blum’s voice because he’s in everything — he has, quite literally, 870 acting credits on IMDb. If he didn’t know about this, then no did.

Why are you blaming women? They should be allowed to work without fear of harassment.

You’re right, but what’s new is how the effort can be crowdsourced through social media, and you’re doxed not just to the one stalker, but to hundreds.

Obviously, the usefulness is letting them know before they agree to do it, so they can choose not to get involved (or to, at least, deactivate all their social media accounts). 

I wonder if women get briefed by developers/publishers when they’re hired to act or model for a game, if they’re at all made aware of what will happen in social media as a consequence of being hired. I wonder if, whoever will end up being cast as Abby in HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us, she will be made aware that,…

But then there’s the whole Maus aspect

Who isn’t affording the company the benefit of the doubt?

I call bullshit on NOBODY at the company knowing. Someone at that turd factory knew *exactly* what they were doing.

Most of the discussion I’ve seen agree that the story drops the ball in the last third. In part because Ultima makes for a lame villain, but also because all the other thematic treads — e.g. slavery and man’s culpability— get dropped in favor of the JRPG trope of killing a god-like figure to solve everything. FF16…

Yet for all its Game of Thrones trappings and potty-mouth interludes, the plot of FF16 reminds me most of Final Fantasy IV.

You wouldn’t have as serious an issue these days if the industry as a whole wasn’t so darn secretive. Honestly, when they know something, they should be transparent and not try to be withholden to PR for “controlled excitement.”

Now Star Wars Outlaws is my #1, but it’s got an invisible asterisk beside it.

After the bonkers year that was 2023, 2024 is looking... slim. Though it could be a good year for a game we’ve all been sleeping on to come out of nowhere and make a splash.

Remedy put him to such good use in so many titles, that their future games really won’t be the same without him. We’re going to feel his absence for years to come.

Cop-out. Choose between Karlach and Astarion, you cowards!

Geoff Keighly has always been a hype-man, first and foremost, and that’s the purpose The Game Awards serves. I think if we want a proper celebration of developers, we should treat TGA as more like the Golden Globes, and look to DICE as the proper Academy Awards equivalent. The Globes, after all, were voted on by the…

Arkane developing a Marvel game was definitely not on my bingo card

Why was it even so wishlisted? Was it premise alone, which has already been done (and screwed up) to death? Players are at least superficially aware of hype — cue the “remember, no pre-orders” meme — and yet can’t help but snowball the hype anyway. One wonders if players will ever break the cycle.