I genuinely had to check. The only Pokemon releases in 2023 were the S/V DLC, some ROM ports for Switch Online, and Detective Pikachu Returns.

Frank Ippolito, creating sins against humanity since 2003.

It’s worth pointing out that Game Freak are known for having abnormally low employee turnover for the industry. Maybe they want sustainable growth for the company so they don’t follow the “pump and dump” model of ramping up on projects, maybe they’re hiding those cuts as “contractors,” maybe they’re just extremely…

Right? And now once you factor in marketing it’ll have to make $400mil before it’s profitable. So you’ve immediately hamstrung the sequel to a surprise hit because you have unrealistic expectations. Because the execs have survivor bias and assume “spend more = make more” even though for every smash hit there’s 20…

I really hope GameFreak stops the two-year development cycle for mainline games after S/V. Give us a remake in 2024, a spinoff for the Legends or Let’s Go franchises in 2025, and a new mainline in 2026 on the Switch 2. Give the games enough time to bake and polish while introducing new concepts or 'mon. COD learned…

Palworld literally walls off the endgame. If you consider that “complete” then I have a fully functional car to sell you, just ignore the cinderblocks it’s resting on.

I like both Legends and Let’s Go, but also understand that they cater to very audiences. Let’s Go was pure nostalgia and let’s you replay the original games while reducing the RPG elements that can bog the games down. I can casually play a Let’s Go in a weekend and never need to grind for XP. Could live without the…

I’m reminded of how Michael Eisner basically saved Disney by producing one or two expensive tentpole films per year surrounded by a bunch of low-budget, good-but-not-outstanding movies. Basically the entirety of Touchstone kept the company solvent. The fucking Ernest films prevented a hostile takeover of Disney. And…

Sadly I’m more and more convinced that the public at large would rather die in a gutter than hurt the people responsible.

Yep. Put low-grade chocolate into ice cream and it’s as hard as diamonds once it freezes. Might as well call it caltrop ice cream.

Fuck butter pecan.

I’m getting strong live-action Tank Girl vibes from these images. Interpret that as you will.

I think it was meant as a nod to his failed audition for Captain America.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach is the perfect casting for The Thing. Hell, his character in The Bear is basically Ben Grimm without the orange rocks.

Yeah, but Baldur’s Gate is also an established franchise, not to mention the DnD tie-in. I’m really struggling to think of a single-player release in the last year that was successful AND an original IP. Only ones that come to mind are Slay the Princess and Dave the Diver.

Jfc Kylie we get it, you don't like Biden. But demonizing him in every fucking article isn't doing you or anybody else any favors.

Who the fuck is going to pay money to see Brittany Mahomes in a swimsuit?

Thatcher has already proven that there’s an endless amount of piss that people are will to relieve on a grave.

The best response I’ve seen is that Disney makes her character canonically trans. “I’m Cara Dune. I was born a man, but I identify as a woman,” as we watch the impotent rage behind her eyes.

Realistically, any EO he signs is going to take at least an hour before the courts slap it down with an injunction. Imagine how much damage Trump’s cult could cause in an hour before the judicial system kicks into gear? “Well, the White House said that it was legal for me to kill non-white, non-Christians so I did.”…