What amuses (or irritates) me about the people who gripe about how so much gets reused and there is no originality in the games they play simultaneously want nothing to do with unique IPs with the sort of originality they claim they want.

Eh, I’d say SOME fan art and fan projects they’ll not actively hunt down if you keep it mostly to yourself. Even Nintendo’s lawyers only have so many hours in the day.

Well... depends. If this guy was using art assets ripped from a Pokemon game, for example, they absolutely COULD go after him, “fair use” or not.

The fact that no one would give him the time of day if he didn’t use Pokemon is the reason.

That’s kinda the thrust of it.

No, they’re not struggling with their first party titles at all. For example, PS4's top selling title was God of War at 19.5 million. The Switch features six exclusive titles that top that, and two of them that damn near double that.

Yeah, I wouldn’t agree that Sony is “done,” but they sure as hell took a solid body blow. While Call of Duty meant a great deal to their bottom line, it’s not like CoD was much more than a small percentage of their revenue. It’ll hurt, but it won’t be a knockout punch unless Sony lets it.

It’s theoretically possible they could.  Saying, “We’re gonna knife this fucker in the back the moment the ink is dry” isn’t something you can or should say while the deal isn’t even final.

For most people, the difference between 60hz and anything above that is barely noticeable. They might identify better “smoothness,” but nothing they can really put their finger on.

For most people, the difference between 60hz and anything above that is barely noticeable. They might identify…

Kotick was never going to get the sackcloth and ashes treatment like we all desired, and deep down, I think we all knew that.

Kotick will remain CEO “until the deal is complete,” is the wording I’ve heard.

Care to point out what was slanderous about that article?

As long as Blizzard Activision is making a ton of money, absolutely no one with the power to do anything about Kotick is going to be the slightest bit inclined to do anything about it.

Ya know, when I read Genshin streamer reacts negatively in a vaguely racist way, I thought, “Tectone? It was Tectone, wasn’t it?”

Oh it’s directly inspired by Gnosticism, with the gods of Celestia playing the role of the Demiurge.  Hell, even the Traveler and his/her sibling fill the roles of the envoy sent by the true God.

Because “Any Press is Good Press.”

UNLESS THEY'RE COVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE AND CAN ACT DUMB FOR US!

The issue there is that the game itself doesn’t hold rate/damage at a 1:2 ratio. The game mechanics in terms of artifact rolls are actually closer to 1:3 in aggregate. You actually start gimping yourself trying to keep 1:2 because you’d be passing on greater crit damage artifacts to keep that smaller ratio.

Eh, the 1:2 ratio is a decent rule of thumb... up to a point. Especially if you’re using buffs and depending on your team comp, once you start hitting 60-65%, that ratio shifts to more like 1:4, because of the diminishing returns you get from more crit rate.

Somewhere, Dead or Alive fans are very happy.