Somewhere, stowed away on one of America's floating fortresses, occupying precious space in its holds, is a dunking booth made with MIL-spec hardware.

QUOTE | "Great games aren't commodity products that can be reliably manufactured from a recipe." - Riot Games CEO Brandon Beck, talking about why he thinks great people are the most important thing a great game company needs.

this isn't really "cosplay culture". it's " cosplay as marketing "

QUOTE | "I feel people just don't want to associate making games with making money. It sort of breaks the taboo of making art for art's sake, which I think is kind of stupid." - Game Theory president Marguerite Dibble, talking about how many indie developers seem to "romanticize poverty."

QUOTE | "I certainly wouldn't characterize the community of fans I know and had the pleasure to engage with as toxic or misogynistic." - Michael Condrey, director of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, talking about his experience with offensiveness and abuse in the game community.

Oh sure, there's nothing wrong with making money. But the biggest "job makers", a.k.a. "businessmen" have become very good at keeping as many of those dollars for themselves as possible, while paying out the barest minimum in order to keep the short-term profits rolling in. Frankly, some people at the top earn…

I enjoyed the first versions looks more too.

retroactively I get a Kuviera vibe from her

Also I'm a sucker for tough women in form fitting armor.

• Empire: Total War

• All games on PC without requiring Origin/EA account.

Exactly this... with games locked to the publishers own storefront, they will be able to dictate their own high prices since you can't get the game from anywhere else.

But this isn't competition. This is market fragmentation and protectionism, which is anti-competitive. Competition means we sell the same products on all stores and let each store compete with price, ease of use, quality services, etc.

I keep recommending this, but it only stars once. Alas.

But this isn't competition. Competition means that everything is for sale everywhere with no strings attached. I mean, sure, whatever online storefront you buy the game from will use it's own form of DRM. So Steam requires Steam, Origin requires Origin, etc. That's fine. But competition means every EA game is…

Exactly. Physical publishing is a huge cash toilet these days, and for all the support they get from Valve, 30% per unit is a steal. But no! They figure they can do it on their own and reach the same audience they would were the game on Steam. It's idiotic, and I'm sure they'll come around sooner or later, once they…

It'd likely cost them more than 30% to release as a physical copy with a large enough print run to support all the customers too. Not to mention for that 30% valve lets them patch for free, release DLC without any additional fees, and provides dedicated server and social (achievements, friends, community hubs) support…

I find this utterly hilarious.

Whelp, looks like I'm pirating these games. I hate UPlay more than anything.

Stop trying to make uPlay happen, Ubisoft. It's not going to happen!

I carry a small lock pick set in my EDC bag. It does take some practice. One day I was visiting my son and one of my son's apartment neighbors had locked themselves out of their apartment. A few people were gathered around trying various ways of opening the door (credit card, butter knife, etc.), so I had my son…

I don't like his association of boobs being something bad...