Probably a little iffy whether that one constitutes a war crime, seeing as the person she killed was attempting to kill a civilian. Oh sure, it’s certainly messed up, but functionally it would’ve been no different if she’d shot the guy. I’m a bit more concerned about the apparent nonchalance afterward.

Honestly, in…

I don’t really have any stake in this one, and I do think there’s a pretty decent chance this guy’s a creep. At the same time though, I do rather wish they had waited until the evidence was presented before moving on this. I get that it is bad press and all, but if the evidence turned out to be in this guys favor,…

If I remember correctly, the current Square Enix CEO was chosen because the company was seen as technologically stagnant. So they wanted a techie/futurist guy to help transition the company into modern game development.

The problem is that while techie futurist types can sometimes be visionary forward thinkers, they…

Japan used mostly nuclear energy until the whole Fukashima incident. After that, there were so many people spooked by what happened that is wasn’t politically viable to continue using nuclear power. As such, the country largely uses coal power now. They don’t really have a choice, as they don’t have the amount of flat…

They’re a videogame company. They’re focused on making video games. There’s nothing inappropriate about that that. Besides that, despite any assertions to the contrary, there is nothing Square-Enix can do that would make any appreciable difference in green house gas output.

This is not a political problem, nor is it a…

No, just stop.

I love a diverse cast, but it’s obviously not going to make sense for every story out there. You wouldn’t throw white people into a story about African mythology or Chinese Palace Intrigue. Well, you could, but I don’t think any reasonable person would argue it’s a requirement. Similarly, you don’t need…

Yeeeeeeah.

I may want voice actors to get paid better, but 100K for a weeks worth of work on a middingly successful videogame, is far more than what I’d call a “fair living wage.” I mean, you’d only need to line up one 15K usd gig per month and you’d walk away with a salary that firmly put you in the upper class. If…

Okay, look. While you’re totally allowed to see parts of yourself in a fictional character and it’s totally appropriate to draw parallels, it’s important to remember that at the end of the day, characters like these aren’t actually any real world ethnicity. You’re allowed to draw parralels between yourself and these…

Yeah, I’m expecting this to mostly be older or smaller titles, but that’s fine. What Microsoft has been doing probably isn’t going to be sustainable in the long term, and there’s a ton of old games I missed out on anyway.

I’m honestly shocked at how rough the new Valkyrie game looks. I mean, the fact that it’s an action game is also kind of disappointing, but just the way all the models move looks, way off for some reason. Almost jarringly so. I’m kind of hoping this is just a really early build and the final version will have some of…

Okay, here’s the thing. He kind of had to say this. If he’d emphatically shot down NFT’s for FF14 without giving some sort of caveat, it would’ve been read as a public rebuking of Square Enix’s CEO. YoshiP may have a lot of power at Square Enix, but he still would not have survived it if he hadn’t said something to…

The thing is, the idea that there shouldn’t be lore behind the racial make-up of people from certain regions because, um, well pardon my paraphrasing here, “We’re already here and need no explanation,” kind of ignores the fact that this is how the fantasy genre works.

For example, for JRR Tolkein’s work, the racial…

I’m afraid the casting kinda ruined this for me. I actually like these actors and I realize that no flesh and blood human actor is going to perfectly replicate the feel of the original videogame characters. That being said though, Tom Holland and Mark Wahlburg(sp?) as Jason Drake and Sully felt so fundamentally off…

Yeah, this is too much. Maybe if they included the DLC for several first party Nintendo games it would be more worth it, but I don’t even own Animal Crossing so including the DLC for that is a non-factor. I dunno, maybe if they add more goodies and expand the library it’ll be more worth it, but as of now this is…

Yeah, people were too quick to jump at that story because IR camera’s really don’t tell you much when you’re looking at the outside of the unit.

That being said, the fan being a little louder is a bit of an issue but it sounds like it’s still less loud than the PS4 so it’s probably fine.

That and I already have a…

As of now, my biggest problem with this game is that we are only six months or so from it’s release and we still don’t know anything of consequence about the story, setting, or even the game play save for what we can gleam from a scant few seconds of footage.

Basically, the last three trailers have repeated the exact…

Here’s the thing, thermal images on the outside of the system -DOES NOT TELL YOU- what’s going on in the inside. Maybe it’s getting hotter in there, or maybe more heat is being vented out because the fan’s moving more air than it did before. Without measuring the temperatures on the inside, we can’t know for sure, and…

One, people can vote or donate to whatever candidate they choose. Period. I don’t care what all the petty authoritarians of the world say, nothing here is even close to being any of your business.

Two, apparently the guy was doxxed and has been receiving death threats, so maybe lay-off on the hit pieces for five…

Yeah, that’s the rub with X-Box Game Pass. The library might seem huge, but in terms of numbers its library represents only an incredibly small fraction of what comes out in even a single year. As such, there’s a very strong chance that the library isn’t going to contain much in the way of games you actually want to…

Yeah, that’s the rub with X-Box Game Pass. The library might seem huge, but in terms of numbers its library…

DLC: Yes, if it’s a worthwhile addition that’s worth the money asked. DLC isn’t actually new or anything, it’s just that in the 90's they were called expansions and had to be a certain size to justify the fact that they were distributed on discs.

Microtransactions: No, no, no, no no, no and heck no! Even more so if…