All the dumb insanity of the leadup aside, I will say that it’s admirable that they nuked it all before the payout window on Steam (I believe it’s still a two week holding period, but I could be wrong because I never handled that side of things for the games I worked on). The game always looked like a suspect…

Really relieved to hear it! Congrats

Me thinks you mean CYBERNATORATOR

Do me a favor, play the game. Tell me that if you were picked as a judge based on experience and expertise that it would warrant a spot on this list before any of the other games (or any of the 68 higher rated games on Metacritic this year). I’m gonna tell you, mass appeal is often momentary and reactionary and there…

But that’s assuming the VGA is purely about picking Metacritic numbers, and if that was the case, then it would be a simple numerical game of aggregating. Once again, Metacritic scores aren’t aimed towards specific components of games and largely just aggregate reviewers who are willing to provide scores, which…

They did similar things before with the launch of the first Steam Deck and it worked pretty well actually. Tying it all to a steam account with a purchase history is pretty significant in terms of blocking bots and chances are high that they’re also monitoring strange behaviors too. I’m pretty sure that they monitor…

I did play it, and it was particularly mediocre from that perspective. As I’ve said, the game was largely satisfying to people who like the setting and wanted a self-insert character. It had relatively little depth or mechanical interest for those of us who aren’t into HP. Octopath Traveler II was a better RPG, hell,…

Tell me which categories Hogwarts would have been a better option in and I will be able to find a better game that came out this year for each of them. Pulling up metacritic numbers for games in categories other than GOTY feels largely pointless, and even then, I’m saying that Hogwarts had an over-inflated MC score…

Hogwarts was a mediocre game that had inflated reviews because many people just wanted an HP game where they could make their own character and be a Hogwarts student. Yeah, I guess it delivered on that for those people, but from an actual game design perspective, it was ridiculously mediocre and shallow and is by no…

I hear you completely. I really think that the RE remakes have taken the whole notion of “remakes” to become a master class in what they are. Yeah, RE3make wasn’t the best game ever, but to be honest, I felt like it only struggled because RE3 had a lot of the core problems baked-in and they really did seem to try to…

I feel like Starfield coming out alongside Balder’s Gate was such a comical contrast in a major company thinking it was doing something revolutionary, only to be completely outshone by a relatively smaller company by an enormous margin.

The best apples-to-apples comparison between those two games is the approach to…

Regardless of the controversy, Hogwarts was a pretty mediocre game and it sold because of the IP it was attached to. To imply that it was “snubbed” for awards is to forget that awards are for the actual game delivered, not for the marketing campaign or sales quantity.

It wasn’t misunderstood and there wasn’t any hidden…

How tf does this dude command so much air time when it feels like he’s just making mid-2000's false starts for sci-fi IPs that have no legs?

It’s truly a beautifully wild set of dynamics that really do make you go “wait, so I can just do this?” My favorite thing is if you build up the “Bodyguard” skill, you can basically just roam around higher levels of the overworld and your party characters will defeat enemies without actually engaging the encounter and…

This project feels dangerous as a live action movie and runs a lot of the risks of live action anime adaptations.

Even as a PC gamer who tends to get favorable treatment from Microsoft in the games department via releases and games pass, this whole fiasco is gross as hell.

If it’s any consolation, I have it on PC and I’m not sure it’s something that’s worth the time I’ve put into it. I don’t own a Playstation (other than a 4 as a Blu ray player), but I’d much rather have those exclusives than the weird output we’ve gotten from Microsoft. If anything, I’ve enjoyed the Playstation games…

I’m not sure how her show is produced, but if I were her, I would have sought a waiver from WGA as A24 has done, which basically means that at least her show agrees to follow all demands of the WGA’s contract during the strike. With that being said, my guess is that the show is produced by a big studio or corporation…

Blomkamp has always felt like a person with a great imagination who had the opportunity to make a really solid and fleshed out idea, only to get sucked into a whirlpool of never-ending rushes to push out an equally solid follow-up. I just get the feeling that if he was able to take a moment to breathe after District…

They will not rest until we are living in an AoT world, released in a drip over the entirety of our lifespans!