Localization ain’t half of it. Do you know just how much content game companies must change or merely prevent themselves from using just to assume their games CAN release in China?

Can we address the CCP-size elephant in the room and look at the draconian control the party in place put on everything internet and computer related? Video games VERY much included.

I’m getting vibes from this like the “Comic Crash” in the mid nineties:

The problem here is that the director tried to insult our intelligence with a very, very stupid answer, not with a story justification.

Ram Ranch, COD edition.

Hypothesis: If someone desperate to make other believe the shit he says or propagate (like, say, a RW rubble-rouser or a conspiracy theorist), then paying 8$/month to simply have the veneer of authenticity is a bargain.

Third or first person? Sometimes this perspective switch is very important.

Indeed. “Brooding military veteran guy” is somewhat frequent in these settings....

At this point? Where were you in the last 20 years? If anything, Hideo Kojima alone showed us how a script heavy, linear story can enrapture millions of gamers and non-gamers alike.

I’d say you gotta give credit to Grey for still using her name from her previous career, and not using a different name to blur the trail. She owned her previous life, and proved that you can still make it as a entertainer even with the “stain” of porn attached to your name.

Newsflash: Kotaku has never been a blog about video games only, but also on general internet geek subjects tangentially related to video games. Speaking about internet drama is also about it, especially about a current extremely popular gamer streamer on a extremely popular streaming platform that does a huge amount…

Wrong; it is. But the history of the usage of word is frought. Interesting article here:

It’s not the phone part itself; it’s the game model.

In the 80's, it was easier to develop better engineering practices to add transistors (and other physical components) to actual hardware in order to boost overall “computational power”. Hence the Moore’s law. It was very dead-on as the following decades would see tremendous advances in chip design.

If I somehow don’t get my daily does of pathos reading newspapers in the near future, I might take a look to remember that my own attempts at creating a setting (20 years ago) were friggin genius (comparatively speaking)!

My ears bleed, but I did “enjoy” that timeless audio piece of anthology for tabletop history.

If you really wanna go to the point of near parody for a ridiculously “anti-woke”, racist and absurdly misogynist role-playing game, then look no further than the infamous F.A.T.A.L. rpg.

“Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda!!!” instead of “A-Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta!”?

I think the parable says that once they come for you it’s too late: you should have reacted when you had the chance.

Other side of the coin: this problem is also the byproduct of NOT having a universal insurance/healthcare system with clear guidelines and a focus on the well-being of it’s citizen instead of it’s cultural(s) sensibilities.