Vastly different art assets to start. There is at least one additional planet, and multiple planets and objects have been renamed (like “The Interloper”). 

Having actually gotten the Archaeologist achievement (before 1000/1000 the game), I can confirm that certain log locations do not tell you “There is more to explore here.” Off the top of my head, a certain dangerous ‘seed’ on Timber Hearth, the explorer’s camp on Ember Twin, certain mysterious entity tracking systems…

Being born and raised in Taichung, which apparently is the home of boba tea (apparently, it’s either there, or Tainan), I apologize on behalf of my hometown to the denizens of Tokyo for inflicting this on them.

Good article! I won’t lie: I love how, since this was obviously a unnecessary but popular tradition by the Second World War, it’s survived in mythos derived from that. For example, though practically battleships were probably obsolete even by 1941, the Yamato-class battleships (the largest by tonnage of the war) did…

KOF, fortunately, wasn’t gone (maybe a little dormant though), thanks to the outstanding KOFXIII and it’s very wide release (unlike the not-as-good KOFXIV and it’s narrower release, particularly in arcades). Though 2019's Samurai Shodown is more of a success story. Hard to picture what a more...modern?...take on Metal…

The look of the security guard at the PSFro owner in dark blue is kind of priceless. “WTF is wrong with you? Now I have to get someone with a broom to clean this up.” 

God, it’s nonbinding talks with Pyongyang all over again, with its “No, we only talk to them if they give us everything we want first! That’s how America should negotiate!” deal bullshit.

That’s, like, your opinion man. Though I blame myself for not conveying it clearer: I really don’t care if someone among a billion Chinese nationals (or maybe an American film producers who knows some in China) forced the filmmakers to change a patch. I don’t take it as a severe indignity or slight against the country…

So, as a Taiwanese national (which naturally makes gives my opinion substantial and serious weight), I find it really hard to give a shit about a particular flag on a patch . Maybe this evocative e-card will convey my sentiment better.

As stupidly obvious as it sounds, animation studios in general are more than just anime. They’re full of living, working human beings after all. Of course, that doesn’t diminish the tragedy of what is most serious arson-caused loss of life in Japan since the end of the Second World War. It would’ve been incredibly…

Actually, courtesy of archival research, and not swimming in our own propaganda, we know today that this whole Star Wars-esque “You have failed me for the last time,” thing was actually quite rare during Josef Stalin’s time, much less 40 years later (and actuality, the liberalization of Soviet society proceeded…

I’m going to use your smart, reasonable complaint** to add my own very irrelevant one.

An entirely-unexpected but deeply desired sequel among its (small) fan following, to a previous title that was a cult hit on the Xbox 360, and unarguably one of the best real time strategy games on any current generation console.

An entirely-unexpected but deeply desired sequel among its (small) fan following, to a previous title that was a…

Any time I’m not spending with Jorge shoot me in the back of the neck or Kat driving a Warthog off the world geometry and glitch the whole level is unacceptable.

Military Commander-in-Chief Heidegger has been hitting treadmill on the 64th Floor I see!

And by “Xbox streaming”, you mean, “streaming from your home console to a PC (or portable device) in the same home”, right? Because I’ve actually used that, and it’s convenient, but it’s only possible because you already own a console—and even then, the quality leaves something to be desired.

I don’t think we’ll see Xbox game streaming to Switch (mostly because I’ve followed the progress of Microsoft’s original plans for Xbox streaming...back when they showed off Halo 3 on a Windows Phone, and they haven’t really inspired a lot of confidence), though I don’t fault anyone for their optimism. With that in…

I can’t say much about the RAF-77 (which, in classic Soviet style, was manufactured in Latvia...and Armenia), except that is the most mini-bus looking mini-bus I’ve ever seen. 

I haven’t watched Chernobyl on account of having studied it somewhat extensively in undergraduate (and early graduate) school. I’ve always been skeptical of historical dramas, entertaining as they can be, though I did enjoy HBO’s Citizen X years ago—maybe because I’d never read a book on Andrey Chikatilo, or maybe…

It really says nothing about the technical and mechanical design of the game, and I can’t remember the last time Call of Duty had a female player-controlled lead, but the story of Farah, the child-of-war and then guerrilla (or in this context, “freedom fighter”), at the moment, sounds like someone at Activision…