Honestly I was looking at a lot of the big exclusives that (to me, at least) defined PlayStation’s slate in the early years and was surprised at how many of them are just completely gone. Like, I remember stuff like Wipeout and Jet Moto and Cool Boarders being big deals among everybody I knew that had PlayStations but…

Oh plus that patch that made everything more grindy and players weaker.

I stopped playing already. Diablo 3 had way more replayability without the constant live-service tinkering. They had a winning formula — all they had to do was copy it. I will never buy another live service game.

That is an absolute lot of words to say “I think Brendan Frasier is hot”

As always, a great post on George of the Jungle and the fact that it’s a female-gaze goldmine:

honestly incredible that people are still doing this bit about sarandon instead of just accepting that clinton ran a shit campaign and was a generally unlikable candidate. its time to let it go

I don’t see effort on Jezebel’s part, or in the NME article it’s lightly-rewriting, to verify that any of the anonymous tweets it’s quoting are a) who they say they are or b) representative of anyone’s opinion but their own. Twitter is full of people appropriating identities in order to add “authenticity” to their…

Meta being unfair was the story they gave. Making the game more efficiently profitable was the goal. If the goal was a better gaming experience they’d be proud of it and announcing it with fanfare. This rollout shouts late Friday bad news drop tactics of knowing that the fans are going to be irate, at the very least,…

The scene is post coital, and she basically gets up, walks across the room and starts commenting on his possessions before randomly grabbing a book off his shelf and demanding he translate it for her. It’s pretty awkward out of context, although the movie continues to characterize Tatlock as an extremely standoffish…

These are right-wing culture warrior groups who have a permanent chip on their shoulder over the perceived favoritism shown to Muslims. It’s really not worth taking them seriously. Western libs don’t know enough about Indian politics to understand these groups’ political associations and agendas.

This is evil. You make it impossible to get a legal abortion, and then punish women for finding a way around that. 

Look at this asshole.

How in the name of all that is good and holy can they include Bohemian Rhapsody on the best list and completely ignore Rocketman which I thought was far superior in style AND content. If you’re going to see only one gay-rock-star-coming-out movie, see the one that actually goes there and gets deeper into the artist’s…

Yeah? Well more people played a shitty graphics roblox looking game developed by three people over the weekend than played all of those game you listed combined. Including halo:infinite and BF2042..... Hell probably H:MCC and BF5, 1, 4, and 3 also. 

The difference between Microsoft and Sony/Nintendo is money. Microsoft has vastly more money than either of them. The scale of what Microsoft is doing is larger than what either other company could even dream of doing.

But as a gamer I’ve attached my ego to one of these corporations!

I love that Fran Drescher is at the center of what could be one of the most consequential strikes of the 21st Century so far. While this (and WGA strike) is mostly about pay, it’s also the first real pushback against corporate exploitation of AI.

You are right in one respect. Business monopolies aren’t like the board game.

They are much, much worse.  

They are allowing the largest software company in the world, and the third largest company in the world by market cap, to purchase the largest game software company in the US (non first party).  That is fucking horrible.

Narrowing the focus of the case to Call of Duty, to the exclusion of most other of Activision’s IP was a huge mistake and negatively affected the strength of FTC’s case.