I’d expect to see abuse similar to this in WoW as well. There’s no way Blizzard is going to employ enough community reps to go through the cesspool of sewage spewed out by people on their game servers. They’ll have to have it automated somehow.

It wouldn’t be the first time that celebrities have gotten away with anything just short of murder. But this time it would seem that the media coverage might just make sure they get a bit more than just a slap on the wrist, but who knows? We’ll all have to wait and see. If nothing else maybe the lawmakers will catch a…

I think that this combined with negative feedback that Other M received (deservedly) is really what killed the series. I had recently looked up the same stats myself and found myself dreadfully disappointed to see the comparison in Metroid’s unit sales.

Paper Mario died for me when they made it into a sticker/card battle game. I stopped playing or caring about Kingdom Hearts when Chain of Memories did the same thing.

Cheat engines are usually built using memory hacking and packet sniffing. It’s highly unlikely that any of these program creators ever had access to the source code. Or even if they did reverse engineer the code, they could have acquired the binaries from any net cafe installation.

Technically, ToS applies to the end user using the cheat tool, not the makers of the cheat tool. If the makers don’t play, then there’s nothing that they’re violating. Also, IIRC depending on local laws, ToS may not be legally enforceable beyond: “If you violate this, your account can and will be terminated at…

They’re secretly trying to beat Sony to the PS9:

The dedicated “VR Games” while generally ok, probably aren’t going to be near enough to make the platform take off by themselves. However, once you start adding VR immersion to high quality first person games: Doom, Skyrim, etc and you have a high quality polished control scheme to match I think you’ll start seeing…

Everything about max level is an endless grind since the last expansion dropped, I wouldn’t recommend it.

The article is good, but, it implies far too heavily that LFR actually fixed the principle behind WoW raiding. It most certainly did not, far from it in fact as in some instances it made it worse.

Maybe they’ll be up to that challenge when it comes time to do Witcher 4. Although, it’ll be tricky with the heavy amount of voice acting and scenario scripting. They’ll probably need multiple voices actors and even different dialog scripts depending on how much they invest in being able to customize the main…

Makes me wonder what the outcome would be if Britian took a revote right now and voters voted intelligently instead of emotionally. Would the results be the same or would they be overwhelmingly different?

PC gamers don’t see different headsets as different platforms. The computer is the platform, the headset is just a peripheral. A hugely expensive overpriced peripheral, but still just a peripheral.

Meanwhile she’ll be a drain on the American tax system her entire life, even after she gets out, since at 58 with no work history or education and a murder conviction hanging over her head not even fast food will hire her.

I daresay that the -gate suffix has become disambiguous enough (thanks to Watergate) that attaching it to any word simply indicates Scandal. And in this case, lets examine the word it’s attached to: Shuffle. Shuffle is a direct reference to the Shell Game, where multiple “cups” (in this case Toads) are shuffled to…

I bet almost no one would have even noticed or commented on the whole -gate joke if Quinn’s over reactive paranoia hadn’t lashed out at Nintendo in the first place.

YDL, that did seem like the flavor of the day at the time. If I remember it was possible to get the controllers recognized via USB, but it was necessary to plug in the controller, then run a hack that made it recognized and keep it plugged in. This kind of defeated the purpose since I wanted to use the controller…

Seems like an interesting proof of concept trick, maybe Nintendo will take notes.

Correction to my previous post, apparently Shovel Knight did have some delays: Originally slated for September 2013 it didn’t actually release until June 26th 2014. Still, releasing the base game as soon as feasible (ie making sure it’s well polished and lacks bugs) is the best thing they could have done.

This actually seems like a much smarter way to handle stretch goals than some other projects have dealt with them.