I don’t mean to call you out personally for this, but this is a bit of a troublesome trend I’m seeing among my liberal friends and it underscores a pretty recurring criticism that we on the left continue to voice.

Yes, QAnon conspiracy theories are outlandish and totally made to manipulate and control certain types of…

I’m still not really sure I get the sense of urgency because Origami King doesn’t come out until the 17th either and the US review embargo hasn’t been lifted for that game yet, so they’re on very comparable footing in terms of perceived confidence.

I get the strong feeling that both of those games have been taken…

I really wouldn’t be that worried about it because that’s honestly a much earlier review embargo than most companies are going for these days. Anything earlier than the day before (or day of) at this point is a pretty confident move. I’m sure we’ll get almost a whole week of coverage before it actually comes out and I…

I’m TOTALLY messing with you and I’m from California and have only lived on the west coast my entire life. I just thought “Staten Island - Boston” or “Staten Boston” didn’t work as well as “Boston Island” so I pretended like it was a thing. To be real though, from the west-coast perspective, a lot of us mix up various…

We call it “Boston Island” thank-you-very-much

In general, they’ve really tried to make everything more like iOS rather than making iOS feel like a solid translation of desktop capability. User-friendliness is a great goal, but there are a lot of workflows and processes than can’t be buried under a simple graphical user interface, which is why this trend gets…

At this point, “doing everything in my power” to get anyone elected has yielded pretty shitty results because it appears that US voters are ideologically rudderless morons that are willing to sacrifice poor and marginalized people to prop up a status quo where economic factors drive social and political systems. With…

I know right? How dare this website prioritize things like a green new deal, meaningful healthcare reform, eliminating the rampant stratification of wealth, and the end of US imperialism?

It’s like they don’t know that a) that Leslie Knope loved Biden, regardless of his harassment of Anita Hill, unwelcomed touching,…

I’m just a bit floored that you got into vaping despite being a non-smoker. I always thought vaping was that lame thing my smoker friends had to do to pretend like they were quitting. In most cases, they even kept up with vaping after quitting quitting because it was the thing they could smoke indoors during the…

Uh, JRH’s response to you was actually pretty well-founded. The notion of “paying for” any government action through direct accounting with specific taxes is in itself a disingenuous ploy that is only expected of social programs. We never ask “how are we going to pay for wars” or “how can the Pentagon just magically…

Spanfeller sux, Deadspin forever! I DON’T EVEN LIKE SPORTS, THANKYOUVERYMUCH

Open letter:

Spanfeller sux! Deadspin forever!

I feel slightly bad for Spiders because their history seems to be marked with a bunch of very honest attempts at good game building, but with fairly reasonable misses throughout those attempts. Greedfall seems like it could be their game to finally achieve a true win, but even if it’s not a great game, it will…

I recently watched Covenant and I was legitimately shocked at how much acting talent and strong production design was wasted on essentially a Prometheus remake. I was already expecting a weaker entry in the Alien franchise, but it felt like there was practically zero narrative development, just like Prometheus. When I…

No one is making you do anything. If you want to play the game, download the launcher. If you don’t want to play the game, don’t download the launcher. If you want to play the game and not download the launcher, then tough shit and that’s your problem. You are not entitled to have every product/service/commodity sold…

Chances are that there are maybe a few lead devs or managers from old BioWare who serve as figureheads, but the reality is that there is probably very little of the same culture that generated the magic of before. The corporate acquisition process alone often drastically changes culture (in more industries than just…

As someone who comes both from the development and marketing side of gaming, I can tell you that EA really doesn’t seem all that invested in saving this game and they are quite definitely going with a strategy that can be summarized as “support it just enough that we won’t have to issue refunds, but not enough that…

I felt the same way! I was expecting to go any direction but Blue Lions, but after getting the rundown of characters, I even thought that Dimitri was by far the most supportive of his crew through his explanations and they all seemed way more likable overall. I just think of Dimitri as the really “cool” guy in the…

I really have to say that this game and Days Gone both demonstrate how bad games can be through mediocrity alone. Like, it feels like they were given a rubric from a teacher about how to make a game, and then they half-assed and included everything on a list to get a B-. They both rely on really half-assed character…

Even though I’m not really a fan of anything he’s been in, I could actually see him doing a fairly good and different job at the role. This is similar to the Christian Bale announcement for me because I remember a lot of people thinking it was a strange choice, but I think he fit well with the type of movies they…