I’ll never understand why Apple continues to sell a product that they know has been disappointing people for a decade and a half now, and is so essential that it’s still at every Apple store. Just make a new mouse that’s a little more fitted and has a usbc charging port in the front. Or Apple it up and make it…

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.  

Am I wrong in reading that the reasons why the FBI Director wants to ban TikTok is because TikTok might be doing all of the things that all social media does, but for China?

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…

I had struggled with this part of the episode as well, but then I realized how on-brand it really is: Luke is an awful teacher. Like, he’s just objectively bad at it. His failure to teach Kylo gets half the galaxy killed. He failed to hold his school together. By the time he meets Rey, he fails to count to three.

As a…

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,…

I can’t believe I’m starting a sentence with “To be fair to Big Bird,” but to be fair to Big Bird he is canonically only 6. He only very recently got the go-ahead to get the shot. ...Though I somehow doubt the CDC calculated the child mRNA dosage for a 300 pound 6 year old avian child.

I hadn’t expected to wake up to Microsoft’s lead gaming person advocating for a sensible industry-wide emulation-based backwards compatibility discussion, but if anyone would it would be Phil. This feels a bit like the discussion around streaming music at the beginning of the century, where a tool for piracy which was…

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.  

They seem like they’re trying to buy low and sell high, without the usual “fixing stuff” step in the middle.  They’re more treating homes like a futures market than an added value system.

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…