Yes. Unless you play spy, there’s no good equivalent to him.

Try out Big Screen (also free, currently in Beta on steam). It’s a series of simulated rooms in which you can use your PC as normal, but on a customized VR screen (like the payware Virtual Desktop) but the environment is shared, so you can screen-peek each other. Even works when playing other games. Also you can throw…

Same, wanted a min-spec VR ready system for my Vive and came in under $1100 total, now I’m feeling kinda smug and sensible that I didn’t splurge and spend 300 more dollars on a 980 just in time for them to precipitously drop in price. If I upgrade in the near term I’ll probably gift my 970 to my buddy who built a…

Big ups to Blizzard for their diversity in Overwatch. It’s possible to field an entire team of nothing but Asian characters (assuming either a Tibetan robot or a Russian count).

Not really, I don’t play her much (main d.Va, Bastion, Lucio and McCree). I just know about the stats thing and what I can tell from being on teams with her. I don’t think they nerfed the shield, actually, she’s pretty much working as intended. I think they even shortened its cooldown.

It’s odd you say that, earlier in the beta Blizzard came out with a statistical analysis of the heroes and their effect on match outcomes, and Symmetra was the one that contributed most to making her team win. And they specifically cited the shield as what did it, not the teleporter. What you do with her is you set up…

There’s a lot of explanation built into the game, the hero gallery lets you see all their weapons and abilities on display and there’s a shooting range map you can use to experiment a bit. For the most part a character’s look corresponds to their gameplay style but there’s some edge cases.

By pure luck I unlocked the d.Va autographed photo spray early on, and I use it all the time during setup. There are two different interactive lines (from Lucio and Reinhardt) that ask her for an autograph so when one comes up I like to go to that player and spray it where they can see. Gets a chuckle. Also there’s a…

Which is what they did with Splatoon as I recall, ranked unlocked when a certain number of players reached level 10.

Basically the difference in playing ranked vs. regular multiplayer was a few restrictions to try and improve fairness. Teams were kept fixed for a whole series of rounds on one map, restricted to a few very tightly balanced points in the case of multi-segment control point maps. If someone dropped they couldn’t join…

See that’s not fair because by and large Jim Sterling does like fun games with colorful animals. We part company on him saying that Star Fox Zero’s controls were broken and impossible to have fun with, because I did. That’s a valid fight to have, it’s not the one we’re having today.

Why does everyone keep telling me I didn’t have fun playing Star Fox Zero? I distinctly remember having fun! But I couldn’t possibly have because someone with a lot of YouTube subscribers says so! How is this possible?

A cutthroat capitalist backstab-em-up in the tradition of MULE, Monopoly, and seven or eight different franchises about trains.

It’ll stop phone calls from ringing, period. If you want phone calls to ring the handset but not over the speaker that’s a setting you can change in the bluetooth settings for that device. I.e. a device will say “media audio” or “phone and media audio” in the settings menu on the phone. Most BT speakers (at least…

That was the touchscreen work I alluded to above, yes it is possible to independently silence the media volume without having media playing but it’s annoying to pull off and takes a bit of a juggle to do one handed.

I’m hoping for backwards compatibility for WiiU games on NX (for disks and downloads), but I fear that doing that would mean compromising something on the NX and they’ll leave it out for the first time in three systems. Basically to pull it off they’ll either need to make WiiU gamepads connectable to the NX or the NX…

I can’t obviously see one, and I can think of a few use cases where I‘d want that to be a thing. It’s hard to silence media before you start playing media, so tapping over to a youtube video you’d like to watch on silent becomes a race with the devil for Android to recognize that, yes, I’d like the volume rocker to…

They didn’t, but the other peripheral it will work with isn’t released yet. The 1:1 tracking controllers are absolutely essential to the gameplay, it won’t work on oculus until the touch controllers hit.

He shows up in the Aftermath novel to get captured by Capt. Rae Sloane and the Imperial fleet leftovers. He also has a line in that book about being recruited in the early days of the rebellion by Fulcrum (who we know from Rebels is Ahsoka Tano) so he helps create a through-line from the pre-ANH material to the…

Everything about this game’s presentation looks absolutely fantastic to me, from the menu you view by putting on a helmet to the very mechanical feel to the saving and sharing functions that make everything into models.