The first version of the ever-remade game came out in July 2014

How can you even SEE us, from astride a horse that high?

Class. Working class vernacular = profanity. Words that demonstrate a university education = sophisticated. It wasn’t someone who decided anything. It’s a social phenomenon the emerges organically in any class-based society.

Antiquated FCC regulations are likely the basis. The FCC set guidelines partly based on how likely children were to hear unsuitable content. To give you an idea of how antiquated these rules are - the strictest penalties enforced by the FCC are against radio because when the guidelines were put in place it was true…

Does it? I get the “need to work > 40% or 50% of the project” requirement, but getting sidelined by people who worked a quarter what you did on the project doesn’t sit well with me.

(Of course, so many people left, I wonder if that was in part to avoid making it look like 1000 people worked on it rather than to punish…

Since when should the solution to a company doing something shitty be “get used to it”? It doesn’t have to be this way, y’know. You could organize and fight for actual change instead of continuing to go without credit.

I think the thing that’s gone unacknowledged for two long is what Halo is actually about.

BD-1 is the best Star Wars droid.  I will die on this hill.

In his statement he claims that these are limited edition cards featuring amazing art of his life and career. Then proceeds to have “art” of him as some quasi superman, a freakin astronaut, Rambo style paramilitary cowboy(?), etc.
AND releases them as NFT right when financial outlets report that the NFT market has lost…

The only thing I can think they meant was “sub AAA”. This game, whether you like it or not, looks like like a serious attempt at excellence and not as some filler for gamepass.

Yeesh, blackout curtain manufacturers must make a killing over there.

Hard to call a game antiquated when it inspired so many games that came after it.  Not a lot of developers chasing “antiquated” gameplay.

I suspect that on the PS5 Returnal takes heavy advantage of the insanely fast storage and the GPU’s direct access to the SSD. While an NVMe SSD in a PC gets close, the SSD in the PS5 is still faster. To mimic the insanely fast SSD of the PS5 the game is loading more assets into RAM instead. The DirectStorage API in…

to mind their surroundings /s

That kid was one of the highlights of the (admittedly much-improved) show! He just did a shit-ton of free marketing for Geoff, and it’s kinda ridiculous they called the police on him. If his word salad was somehow antisemitic then I feel less bad about the arrest, but it still feels like overkill?

About two hours in you play the rest of the game as Raiden getting constant phone calls from your passive aggressive girlfriend.

It bears mentioning that as AAA games get bigger, what might have been considered AAA in the past is now regarded as a AA or indie effort.

Yeah, it seems like a bad take to view this at all as a “win” for domestic violence victims. Kotaku has, over the years, continued to “stand by” Amouranth in a way that (at this point) feels almost purely symbolic. Defending and rationalizing their disproportionate coverage of her has become a stand-in for an implicit…

Personally, I’m happy when domestic violence victims are given money and resources to ensure a full and satisfying life away from their abuser, and I’m glad someone was able to do that for Siragusa. Even though Siragusa is already, by her own admission, making millions a year