The exec has denied all the allegations, except for taking the photos. “I was asked so I took the photos,” Maki is quoted as saying. “The truth is different.”

I actually like making my character stronger by every big encounter, gaining new abilities that open up the world bit by bit.

Fun fact: if this somehow manages to work, I give a year, two tops, before every major publisher out under the sun comes up with their own streaming service, and you can only stream their games there.

Looking at the game lineup, it seems no publisher was willing to tie new releases to this thing. Probably trying to avoid bad press when it (inevitably) comes out that the lag makes the game unplayable with Stadia for a bunch of people.

an early preview build of Sonic 3 that’s quite different from the Genesis game that was eventually released.

Very interesting story, although the title is a little... odd?

Company that takes forever to finish a game creates an ad that takes forever to end.

Clash Of Kuni?

As someone who is playing this on PC, unless they implement a matchmaker that separates PC/phone players, people will begin droping out of this game very quickly. You can quite easily dominate the game with a mouse and keyboard.

At that point, doesn’t farming just become an artificial way to inflate the amount of time a player is stuck playing your game? Isn’t it just, very honestly here, an artificial way to gatekeep players from “fun”?

Don’t expect a Hollywood version of Nausicaä. As NHK reports, Hayao Miyazaki has turned down that offer.

The contract most likely did not have any details of what they would do with the store codes once the contract ended. The developer probably understood that the publisher would transfer the codes, because that is what they were doing up to that point, but since it may not be specifically written that way in the…

As long as “live services” continues to be the goose laying those golden eggs for the gaming industry, then we will have to deal with living in an age of perpetual update roadmaps. Why work on a whole new game, from the ground up, when you can simply work for a month and sell a repackaged version of the game you sold…

I always wanted a decent farming sim, something like HM but better, and Stardew Valley scratched that itch so hard that I no longer feel like I need another game like it.

First 30min of the movie will be spent by the main character looking for the key to open this door:

If my memory serves me well, I think it is a very long game (a lot longer than Grandia II), even by JRPGs from that time, so be prepared for that.

Wait, I can’t be mad at this...

You’re trying to get into a flow state on something productive, but somehow, your mouse gravitates to your bookmarks, and suddenly you’re browsing Twitter, or Tumblr, or another internet addiction of your choice.

“We don’t call them loot boxes, we call them ‘surprise mechanics’”