Fortunately, I have had friends who worked with Taika who said he is probably one of the nicest people they’ve ever met in the industry. I know that sounds like a cliche, but there are definitely some “above and beyond” stories that have been shared with me.

That’s true, however, it’s still an actively regressive pricing system. Making the lowest tier of participation, which is already the most difficult, the most expensive to participate in is ruthless. Yeah, you may have a game that magically hits stratospheric numbers and passes that threshold, but a lot of people make…

That’s patently not true though and all it takes is a look at the Epic games exclusives like Ooblets, Maneater, Hades, Mortal Shell, Griftlands, Phantom Brigade, and numerous others (hell, even in my network of fellow indie developers, I know at least two people that have unannounced exclusivity deals with Epic). Even…

Nope, Valve has only decreased its percentage for big studios that cross certain earning thresholds, which basically means that they’re doing everything they can to hold on to AAA releases, but are happy to tax indies for all they are worth. People really got pissed about Epic exclusivity, but Epic both offers…

I really can’t stress how important Mike Nash was to those of us who do 3D art, especially with hard surface/robotic/mechanical modeling. Even people who I consider experts constantly bowed to him for the way he used form language in a lot of his designs and he’s really one of the masters of hard surface in Zbrush…

Life imitates Snowcrash.

It’s carelessness if you’re fixated on buying games for kids, but in their mind it’s one of thousands of other things that they do and it’s probably more important for them to remember details needed to run their businesses, manage their lives, and care for their families. When you consider that the average mom both…

Considering a lot of consoles are purchased by parents for children on holidays and birthdays, I would not be surprised if this causes a lot of accidental purchases of the wrong console. For example, after the Wii U came out, my mother and my sister kept buying Wii U games for my nephew who only owned an original Wii,…

YES PLEASE! The game is so mediocre on every level (even the gameplay systems). People who are like “it plays fine for me and there’s a good game in there” are being really uncritical because every aspect of the game feels rudimentary at best and nowhere near what a game should be in 2020. I faced a lot of weird bugs…

I definitely agree, they pretty much tried to offset all of the missing gameplay features with a big hero’s journey character arc that felt like such an off-the-shelf and boring narrative. The few branches they gave were super limited, so there wasn’t even much roleplaying or agency involved in that. Beyond that,…

I beat the game two days ago and about 90% of the side content. So many of the systems were completely shallow beyond belief and have been done better by numerous games that came out in the past five years. Hacking was super limited and consisted of menu-based attacks, camera/turret control, and a simple breaching…

I could see them releasing most Bethesda games on PS to gain full-price sales because it then creates a funny conversation of “well, you could buy a playstation and pay full price for a library of games or you could buy an Xbox and pay much less to play an even larger library of the same games for a low monthly fee.”…

Can we also point out that “glitchy flashing” is also just like a major cliche and isn’t really mandatory for any stylistic effect? I’m not sure how or why we were all led to believe that “glitchy flashing” is always the best VFX approach to viruses, “diving in” to VR, or other things like that because it’s really…

Reagan is a president who’s memory will inevitably get more and more tarnished over time because his only benefits were momentarily good feelings about patriotism while he robbed our country blind, let countless people die from AIDS, and enacted terrible (and outright illegal) foreign policies. Yeah, the 80's may have…

Let’s be real here, if Martin even begins to truly hold up development, I feel like Miyazaki will jump in and be like “alright, I’m taking over writing depressing stories, hold my estus flask.”

I’d probably say that there’s a high chance a lot of PoE players are probably going to check out Cyberpunk because of it’s sheer blockbuster quality, whereas that relationship probably doesn’t favor PoE from an inverse perspective (I’m sure only a fraction of Cyberpunk players will have even heard of PoE). If I was…

Yeah, that’s exactly it. Everything is about metrics and data points, so the guy who gave her problems about it is likely just trying to avoid a future “why did we comp so many employees to parks?” questions in meetings or evaluations with his bosses.

With that being said, I’m sure she also knew that and it’s very…

As someone who has worked in environments like Disney/ABC, I can definitely understand it. What people don’t understand is that working in that kind of corporate environment is basically like having to endure thousands of papercuts every day, only to shut up and do it the next. At some point, you get so sick and tired…

I’m down as hell with infinite tooth generation if that’s a choice

Yeah, it’s always funny when people are like “look at these baby skulls” and half the time there are more than one set of additional teeth. Like, clearly, we don’t have three sets of teeth, so why do people look at that image without realizing that those are specific case scenarios?