They’ll find a way to not end AoT, even if it means breaking up the last half of the last episode into four episodes and continue doing that until we have to watch a whole day of AoT happen in real time from several different perspectives.

After getting out of the most recent Spiderverse movie, I said to my nephew “I’m willing to bet when the next one comes out, someone will be able to make a 90-minute cut of both movies together and actually have something somewhat competent from a storytelling perspective.”

I will give them credit on the animation, the…

This is such a dangerous statement to make for MS/Bethesda. At some point, they need to let the product speak for itself because frontloading expectations like this could lead to some very disappointing memes after release if they don’t nail it. If they’ve got it together and the game truly is in great shape, then…

I have zero horses in this race, but I’m just going to say, a game I worked on was hit with similar accusations because our lead designer didn’t reveal his work at a previous company and it literally shelved our project forever (or we would have had to pay out a percentage of the game to the previous company). A lot…

That secret passage was so freaking annoying without Yunobo’s ability. It was one of the things that really challenged my trust in the game’s view of rewarding exploration. There are just far too many parts of the game that invite you to dig deep (in this case literally), only to wonder why the hell you wasted so much…

I’m with you, it’s an 8/10 at best and does A LOT of things that don’t respect the player’s time or effort. I spent a long time mining away at breakable rock walls underneath that central area once the passage with the respec statue opens up, only to realize how much resource churn I had to do just to get a pretty…

It’s kind of a funny development because I’m not sure who the CEO is really actually matters to any of us if Twitter is still autocratically dictated to by Musk. Like, cool, he got a new face person to hopefully win back Tesla sycophants and drive Tesla stock prices back up, but that’s not actually changing people’s…

Although the TB-303 may not have been the robotic bass player desired by one-person-bands, it’s easily one of the most sought after and recurring synths in electronic music setups. It’s been remade countless times by small companies, Roland (albeit non-analog versions), and now by Behringer (which is analog). So yeah,…

You forget that Valve doesn’t really care if a game underperforms because Steam is practically an ATM for them and, if anything, not having reviews or other methods of tempering user expectations would lead to unhappy customers blaming Valve in addition to developers/publishers for bad launches. They’re happy to take…

I think all games are soulslikes in the sense that Elden Bloodsouls games are all games. In this essay I will...

As much as I feel for Conrad and know how awful those types of situations are in the games industry, this really looks like a situation where he needed a more level-headed and experienced person telling him how to poker face his way through this legally rather than blowing the whole mess up. I haven’t spoken to my…

From a business perspective, I’d agree with that hypothesis before the update was leaked, however, I do feel like the resounding response from the community made a scarier market statement than WoTC was ready to hear: “Dungeons and Dragons largely owes its current popularity to the open nature of the OGL and people…

I’m generally concerned by the fact that we’ve let our resource distribution system essentially take precedence over our ecosystem and social system, both of which are needed to house an “economy” anyway.

Well, I was trying to toe the line of mockery without verging into scathingly mean territory, so I veered a bit into whimsical self-deprecation via sarcasm. As a pretty avid anti-capitalist, I will always side with service workers and labor, so I wasn’t going to really engage in a “which is worse” conversation with…

I was but a mere baby, born into a world of game development with no other experiences on my soft hands. Even if I wanted to, my little soft baby hands could not lift a plate or handle the smallest bit of conflict with another person, which is why I was forced into a life behind the computer.

I’m only 32, so it mostly felt like I was living in a world where our market was fellow millenials and 90% of the people we’d hear from were other millenials via feedback and community channels.

One of my friend’s teams was actively harassed by a power player because they wouldn’t make a non-vr version of their vr game for their friends without VR headsets. That may work for some games, but if you knew which game I was referring to, you’d go “how the hell would the non-vr version work?”

My favorite is “I want a feature that requires rebuilding the game from the ground up. Yeah, I liked the game as it was, but I’m not going to recommend it unless you completely remake it so that my friends and I can do this one thing we like in a totally different game that you didn’t make.”

Honestly, developing games or software with “gamers” as the end-audience is one of the worst professional experiences of my life because it’s the only industry where people think their $10-69 spend entitles them to make ridiculous demands or access developers in ways that wouldn’t be appropriate in literally any other…

If I was him, this is what I would do. It really seems like he was thrown under the bus to save Black Adam from flopping.