That A Better ABK filed a suit with the NLRB yesterday is news. And it may indicate movement toward a former unionization effort by Activision-Blizzard employees.

I haven’t fired Deathloop up yet, but I never had any of the issues that people reported with Dishonored 2 when it launched, so I’m not expecting to have many issues here.

The funny thing is that despite it selling so much worse than the previous 50 Cent game, it actually turned a tidy profit for THQ, who picked it up for a song in the Activision/Vivendi merger fire sale.

I think he saw it as a cool tech experiment and I think to some degree a lot of the criticism of it is based on failing to totally get what he was doing creatively with it. I haven’t watched the whole thing, but I watched a clip of ‘I Just Can’t Wait To Be King’ from it once, and what immediately came to mind while…

Correct. It’s not just Rand’s height, hair, and eye colour that make him unusual for a Two Rivers man, it’s his fair skin. Elaida specifically remarks on his skin colour when she notices the untanned skin under his sleeve when they meet in Caemlyn in the first book.

- Really? Cindy is sad about killing her father?

All the things that everybody else has said, but also: dude led the fucking charge for Sean Spicer’s attempted public image rehabilitation tour, and for that reason alone Corden can rot in hell forever.

Nate’s spitting to activate ‘Confident Nate’ is surely building up to a moment where he spits directly in someone’s face (I’m thinking it’ll be Roy. But there’s a slim chance it’ll be Rebecca), and then ‘Confident Nate’ will be destroyed utterly.

Seems pretty clear from the trailer and additional press that the player character starts out as The Boss in this one, as the storyline is about you getting your new gang established in the city and taking over, instead of being a rando who happened to witness a major dustup and got saved by the Third Street Saints…

Jesus christ, it wasn’t my takeaway from the trailer, it was my takeaway from the Gamescom presentation.

The official Saints Row twitter has confirmed that there is still character customization. They maybe should have had a different line for the actor at the Gamescom presentation than ‘I play The Boss’ when they were talking to Keighley, because that’s generated a ton of confusion on this point.

It sounds like The Boss in this is a pre-defined character, which is an odd choice considering that character customization has been one of the biggest draws in the franchise. It would also seem to preclude there being a campaign co-op element, which is the other biggest draw in the franchise, and shows that Volition…

The Hulk thing isn’t a retcon. In Iron Man 2 the phone video of the fight at Culver U is on one of the screens when Fury is talking to Tony at the end and tells him the evaluation found him unfit for The Avengers. So at least part of Iron Man 2 takes place between the final ‘main’ scene of Incredible Hulk and the ‘not…

The Saints Row 2 update wasn’t really a remaster, and is on indefinite hold. It was only being worked on by two people at Volition, one of whom was IdolNinja (of the Gentlemen of the Row mod), who has stage 4 cancer.

As a person who has had testicular cancer, I wasn’t a fan of the “Boyle might have testicular cancer” sub-plot, since it got basically everything about how a testicular cancer diagnosis goes wrong.

While you can definitely see the reduction in budget (Season 2 has 1/10th the background extras Season 1 did)

I’m pretty sure the doctor was the only one who knew. And he kept quiet about it because his son was natural born.

The way Niccol uses LA is always pretty interesting (though also frequently geographically nonsensical, like in In Time).

1000% QA is probably the segment of the games industry that would benefit the most from unionization.

I worked 3 months in QA at Neversoft back in 2013, after nearly five years in QA at THQ, and Neversoft was the worst three months in the industry I’d ever experienced.