If your CEO is touting the blockchain NOW in 2024, your company is doomed.  It was forgivable that certain people wouldn’t understand the technological limitations enough in 2020 that they’d tout it as the next big thing.  But if they still can’t see the complete lack of benefits to game development at this point...…

I wouldn’t mind just simple collection of old games running well. I wouldn’t mind paying more for definitive master editions to play and archive forever. But they need to stop marketing simple collections as definitive masters editions unless they plan on following through on that. Otherwise everyone is going to be…

The first thing I attempt to do in any game is upgrade the inventory so it’s less annoying. The complexity it ads is almost never the fun kind of complexity. Barring true hoarding, we should be well beyond inventory space as a game mechanic in 2023.

Voice actors aren’t the writers.  

Microsoft and Sony are at the beginning of their new systems, which means hardware is expensive and margins are tight. They were probably at cost for every system sold when they launched, and it has only gotten worse. Nintendo on the other hand is still rocking old hardware, and has resisted a price drop that entire…

Ouya was at least trying something new for the time that hadn’t been a proven failure, and was developed and released in good faith.  This thing is clearly either a scam or a joke.

Well, I’ve suddenly lost all faith that Sonic Frontiers will be anything other than the usual Sega Sonic trash fire. And they were doing so well with Sonic Mania and the preproduction press on Frontiers. Also, why make this much of a mess for just a 10% bump? For a game that’s basically an advertisement for Frontiers…

True, but there is also a LOT more competition. It used to be that you could buy a new full priced game, buy a used game for less, or go watch whatever happens to be on TV at that moment. Now we have a thriving indie scene, digital-only games that drop hugely within a year, game subscription services, Humble Bundles,…

The terrible current series of movies didn’t help.

And the gameplay didn’t make you feel like a wizard in an endlessly unique world, so much as a stamp collector walking to Dunkin Doughnuts. They never nailed the core gameplay like Pokemon Go did, and what they had wasn’t as aligned with what people wanted from the…

I feel like the original article was written by someone who has never designed an in-game economy.  

For physical games, this is a terrible idea.  But NFT’s allow for resale.  Part of me believes it should be possible to re-sell your digital games, and NFT’s would be a good mechanism for that.

Do people have cartridge adaptors for MiSTer?  I recently purchased an FPGA NES to play my old cartridges on something that upscales to modern displays quickly and cleanly.  A general use FPGA console would be great, but I’d still like to use the carts that I have.  

Cammy is definitely off. Her face is just too big, and has too much presence. She should have a similar muscle definition to Guile, but doesn’t. Her hips should be about 75% of her shoulder width. She should have a portion of Guile’s V-shape between her waist and shoulders, but she’s entirely vertically flat. And if…

I’m not convinced that Half Life Alyx would make sense as a non-VR game. Immersive isn’t necessarily the right word. Maybe tailored? Certainly a lot of the moment-to-moment interest involves fidgety hand stuff, which would be intensely boring on a traditional controller. Done as a traditional FPS with button presses…

LucasFilmGames? Isn’t that a little bit like StreetFighter The Movie The Game?

After experiences with the Xbox 360 and other consoles overheating, I’m all for giving as much available space for air cooling as possible. This is especially true in a first-generation console.

If everything else made sense in the console naming, that would sort of make sense for the S and X distinction. I’ll give you that.  But “One” versus “Series?” “Series S” makes it sound like the S’s go together. But All “Series” actually go together, while all S’s are separate generations from each other.

The naming…

I’m glad they’ve finally managed to recapture what made the 2D Sonics great. But retro will only get them so far into the future. I’d love to see a remake / reinvention of Sonic Adventure 1, as a doorway to more 3D based Sonic games that aren’t terrible. Quite frankly, knowing that Sega remembers how to make a good 3d …

I’d take a wild guess that labor in Tokyo is relatively expensive, and they’re going to outsource that to China or another area with lower labor costs.  If the robots are $10,000 each, and reduce labor costs by $10 an hour, they will pay for themselves in about 6 months.

How well does it support real gamepads?  (Xbox, PS4, MFi)?