Agreed, this whole article is just a bunch of ballyhoo!

Microsoft is not a monopoly but is a gigantic tech company that should have been stopped in its tracks for anti-competitive practices long ago. This is bad news not only for gaming, but because, with Microsoft taking more and more of the gaming pie, it will roots its other tendrils into our lives even more.

Agreed, Sony and Tencent aren’t our buddies either.

I would have vastly preferred Activision/Blizzad to stew in this shit of their own making for a while...

Dissolving the board... so sad it just a metaphor and does not refer to an actual chemical reaction.

Even if Phil Spencer looks like the gaming buddy you always wanted and their Pass is a ‘great deal’ to many, Microsoft is not a force for good (or evil but that is another discussion).

Yeah... Even in the very unlikely circumstance that many game developers/publishers would be up for this, it is not technically feasible with how games are made currently.

NFTs are practically the dark arts and soulless and predatory in nature, so it is fitting to use them to celebrate the release of a game about a dark, soulless predator.

Activision/Blizzard may no longer be an innovative game company, its employees are trailblazers still. This bold and forward thinking move shows once again that the real power of an organization is in its people, rather than its C-suite and shareholders.
Here’s to hoping they succesfully unionize!

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s cynical comedy once again tells more truth and makes more sense than any pundit or politician ever could.

Roblox is going some way to capture that spirit already in how it not only relies on minors playing but also for a good chunk making its content.

Talking about opposite sides of the spectrum, I feel like I have been playing Open World games these past few years with experiences that are diametrically opposed to yours.

Here I was, ready to read about the fact that it is fucked up to play in what has a real serious shot at becoming our actual, awful future (and is for some parts of the world already a reality), but I guess rubberbanding is a real issue too.

I teach a Game Studies course called ‘Games and Stories of COVID-19'. Animal Crossing and all our diverse stories of this game feature prominently in it.

To think that maybe D&D will be the thing that finally ushers you guys into the modern age. At least where it comes to measuring distance. ;-)

Really nice game, really really nice review!
You’re certainly giving Kotaku some more reviewer verbs and nouns with thinkpieces like this that meaningfully wrap up ritual, ontology, and identity in the real world and in the game.

The devs seem to have put thought into this and say they want to be respectful towards this complex history. What this dev blog shows, imo, is a typical judgement error: that one’s own perspectives on the past is everyone’s idea of real, accurate, authentic, etc. history.

Thanks for keeping us updated on this outcome, but... As has already been expressed by others, why focus on the studio’s games being bad in the very first sentence?

I don’t agree with D&D being (very) flawed. For what it tries to be it is an immensely successful design. Still I agree there is so much goodness out there!

Fantasy RPGs can still mean a lot of different things, but I can really recommend Numenera and other games like it in the Cypher system.

That analogy is completely off the mark. Drinking as a minor has been convincingly shown to have major health and other wellbeing implications for the (any) individual.