I think most, if not all, of Yahtzee’s points are completely valid, although very clearly magnified for comic effect. He’s worth taking seriously, but not forming a complete opinion with.

At a high level, many review figures were part of larger enterprises and publications that would be sold as part of a bigger product. A review would be tucked into a newspaper for instance. This meant that the review was not the sole readership draw and as a result, a reviewer was more abstracted away from…

I can guarantee you I don’t talk about censorship much, because I don’t like using the word censorship unless we’re serious.

While this lawsuit is pretty ridiculous coming from this developer, it does bring up an interesting conundrum: Should people really profit as much as they do off the misfortune and shortcomings of bad games? There is a spectacular tendency to play up the failures and drill games for the perception of failure purely…

Since the other Marvel playsets were in 2.0 (which is not being updated), that’s a no.

You’ll need the starter pack, as it contains the game.

You can technically get by with the starter pack and the figures that come with it and the playsets. For instance, the Marvel Battlegrounds playset comes with the new Captain America figure, and you can get by with that alone. It can be more fun with more figures, particularly if you decide to monkey around in the toy…

Working in a game company is much like watching the sausage get made. The good part is that different genres of games are quite a bit different from one another. I can play Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and have fun because it’s so different. On the other hand, I’ve rarely played any of the game I’ve most recently worked…

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Encoding any sort of video with the compression needed to substantially cut down the HD video required in this sort of thing would bottleneck at the processors, no matter how hardcore they are.

It’s the uncompressing the HD video that’s the difficult part.

In many cases, I’d agree, but you don’t buy out a company of Ubisoft’s sheer size for just a single IP (or even their entire IP library), you do it to get a profitable subsidiary. While it’s true that there are tons of people willing to work in the industry, it is crucial to have a core development team at all times.…

The talent exodus is the real issue. A lot of executives would likely leave the company to form the new company. In turn, they could bring a number of art and technical talent with them. In turn, the exodus of talent to this new company would create a more glaring exodus as many simply decide to leave for other…

Point stands either way.

There was a certain amount of purpose in this, as the developer edited out the assassin in the picture, likely to get it in as a placeholder until something better came up. Invariably, it never was replaced until now.

...in case it wasn’t obvious, the article originally said Avalanche Software...

Just Cause 3 is produced by Avalanche Studios. Avalanche Software produces Disney Infinity.

You amuse me greatly.

On the contrary, it is possible to copyright, trademark, and patent a haircut (depending on the situation), as long as it’s novel and not obvious. It will be exceptionally difficult to do that, but it’s entirely possible.

Bingo. There’s a winning idea.