Having played this just recently during Gamescom I am amazed to find myself agreeing with you. This game has every right to be bad or revolting and yet it is actually pretty good. It is a Nintendo game made by Ubisoft but feels like an Ubisoft game crafted with the attention and care of Nintendos developers. And yes,…

Hello from Germany, yes it is quote illegal. The Salute, as well as the swastika and similar Nazi symbols are unconstitutional by german law. The problem is usually in proving that it was the salute and not just a animated description of how high that tree in your backyard currently is. Jokes aside, perpetrators…

The problem with the Holocaust was that it started very much like described. The Nazis didnt suddenly march through the streets, screaming about how they were going to arrest and murder whoever they dont like. It started very slowly, step by step, and was kept very secret from the general population for a surprisingly…

Look, I am all for applying game desgin & balancing expertise to politics. Its actually a good idea and could go a long way if done CORRECTLY by people with the NECESSARY EXPERIENCE (Hint: not you Zynga!). In general there are a lot of parts of game design that could help make a political system more stable and fair,…

As a budding developer & designer myself I often am simply astonished how worked up people get over the smallest parts. Seriously, do you have any idea how much other stuff had to be changed or thrown out while working on this? I couldnt care less for one stupid UI element/Item/Number/etc...
As long as nothing clashes…

Probably gonna get some hate for this, but whatever: I do not approve of Skull and Bones.
Like, at all.

For a few fleeting minutes this looked so good. Then they made it online multiplayer focused, instead of its own RPG.
God dammit Ubisoft!

I suggest Nintendos E3 2011 Opening. Yes, the presentation of the Wii U left a lot to be desired, but Oh my friggin god, that Orchestral Zelda Medley followed by tons of Skyward Sword AND Ocarina 3D stuff! Those first minutes were just perfect!

So, yeah, from a ease of use point of view this is vintage Nintendo, as in why the hell would you do this? Its not quite “kill the headphone-jack on a smartphone and sell wireless headphones that everyone keeps losing” level, but kinda in the same territory.
BUT, you gotta admit, the squid shaped adapter is cute & the…

Can we all appreciate the fact that Trump, Putin & Co. (C) are now so afraid of the investigation that they are pretty much admitting that Comeys letter won the election for them? Just sayin’

Wow, thank you!

As someone who just finished a six-month internship in QA I am afraid it isnt that simple. Yes, Witcher 3 and Skyrim are both big open world RPGs, but when you get to the smaller details, there are quite a lot of differences there.
Just look at the storyline and questsystem. Skyrim pretty much sets you loose and lets…

While I agree with your argument, I do not think it really is applicable here. She says so herself in the articles: She tries to promote more critical thinking. As someone currently learning the craft of game design & development himself, I can confirm how easy it is to just “go with the flow” and include things &…

With all this sh*t happening, I bring better tidings from Germany:
The AfD (German Trumpists & new new Nazis) continue to fuck up and are expected to maybe not even cross the 5% they need to get into Congress and best of all, Frauke Petry, their furious little Fuhrer, is already thinking about leaving politics behind…

This is actually my pitch for all that are opposed to action against climate change:
Lets make it a Pascal’s wager!
To recap, this is the original wager: Live as if God exists, even if you doubt it. If he does not exist, all you will have done is having lived a good, fulfilling and rightous life, and hardly lost…

This is Stupid Watergate!
John Oliver predicted it weeks ago!

Ok, German here, its like this:
America has been the butt of endless jokes from Europe for as long as I remember. Thats how it is if you are the biggest Superpower on the planet but also have prominent people insisting that the dinosaurs never existed.
The thing is... It became harder under Obama. Because he was so…

With all those comments here... This is an actual thing? Im not falling for a stupid internet hoax? Never had anything like that here in Germany, nor heard about anything like that neither at schools/universitys/work/whatever else.
The fact that everyone talks about it so nonchalant is making me shiver.
God (or which…

As a budding Game Developer/Designer all those people bragging about “hacking” BotW on social media are starting to really annoy me.
Yes, big N has a sh*tload of money, but this game also cost a sh*tload of time and money to make!
Those are the same Guys crying foul whenever we get some shitty DRM or overpriced Games.…

Yeah, the following-something-very-small-more-by-sound-than-by-sight aspect of it all was interesting, but the rest really messed it up. Worse, when I got to the Shrine I wasnt sure if I could just walk up to him. Would I inst-fail again? So I snuck around him, did the Shrine, came back out and: No Krog in sight. I…