This is the real problem but the issue is that 95% of people who sneer violently at EA and fail to do so about Activision never played any of those games. Most of the people who did play those games are 40+ now, and not the main people chatting shit about EA, who tend to be 20s and very young 30s. They never played a…

EA bought up many beloved developers, meddled with them, ran them into the ground, and then killed them. RIP to:

Actually you can’t tell here. There are honing steels that will hone the edge of the knife and there are sharpening steels (e.g. diamond steel rods) that have a rougher texture and will remove material and sharpen the knife. Both are available and sometimes they’re misidentified by the packaging as well. The majority…

As this article mentioned, cheats and counterfeits are perfectly not-illegal in China, so someone in their company had to made the a party officially really made. I am far more interested in that story.

The criminalization of violating software terms of service as if it’s real theft is something that worries me. Kinda feels like the State operating as the enforcement arm of corporations, creepy stuff. I get that the context for that is different in China than it is in the US or EU, but we’ve seen similar stuff in the…

Anthem was a GaaS and requires a good CCU to stay afloat. That’s probably the main reason they pulled the plug on it - it’s just too much work.

Going through the same thing with many other games. I recently quit basically all the games I play that use any kind of model like this and fuck it’s improved my mood so much.

Activision CFO seems like a good fit. Finally frees COD to focus on the golden trinity of microtransactions, toxic behavior and military recruitment. No more apologies.

Video games have gone through a few boom and bust cycles - starting off with hobbyists and enthusiasts who drive innovation, becoming more popular and therefor profitable, being taken over by corporate interests, then suffering some major setback which causes the corporations to seek profit elsewhere and leave the…

“Perfect fit for Activision Blizzard" is a really accurate statement.

No?

I’m in the US and my town has 4 recently-built roundabouts (with 2 more on the way) and it’s been... not great. Mostly because people are idiots. It’s like they come to this unfamiliar circular piece of road and everything they know about how to drive just vanishes from their heads. Most people come to a complete stop…

Oh I can assure you, drivers here can’t figure out roundabouts either, and there are a fair number in older towns like in DC.  For all the noise we make about cars, we’re shit drivers.

I mean, Evangelion was mostly terrible, but that’s no reason to harass someone over it. If you don’t like it, just move on.

Thanks for writing about it, this is a very good thing you did, I’m sure it won’t completely destroy the project. But I guess it’s a two for one, you get to write this one and then the one complaining about Nintendo after they wreck it. 1000IQ journalismsss.

If a door texture failing to load is the one thing coloring your view of a game that is absolutely filled to the brim with beautiful and stunning visuals you might just be a miserable asshole.

sounds like he’s a shoe in for congress as a republican in 2022.

Old release date: Never

I played the demo during Steam’s showcase event in February and the game was a grind. By the time I had updated 2 or 3 buildings I was already getting tired of having to place the same cards over and over knowing that my gear was entirely random before the boss showed up and that was what primarily determined if he…