My empathetic take is that maybe Luke is just burnt out on E3 style announcements from having to cover them and doesn’t yet know how to approach them as just a fan watching.

Yeah, it’s a horseshit article. By my count, my various wishlists fattened by nearly three DOZEN titles this week. Granted, the bulk of that was due to the utterly delightful one-two punch of the Guerilla Collective and Wholesome Direct shows, packed to their gills with indie goodness. But on the other end of the…

It never ceases to amaze how Kotaku has leaned hard in to creating long op-eds out of literally nothing. E3 came and went, some good game news came out of it but wait! What if we turned this in to a lengthy article about how the world isn’t back to normal yet and we could have just skipped E3? Yes...we shall point out…

Metroid is my all time favorite series in gaming by a long ways...but, by all accounts, Metroid games don’t sell. They never have, unfortunately. It’s insanely popular with us, the diehard fans, and apparently no one else.

Gamepass is great for trying out games. Like, shit, Wasteland 3 was on it. I was interested in the game, but at $60, I wasn’t about to bite.

This. Years later I would still pay full price to play the latest God of War on my PC but no dice...Can’t say I feel bad about this.

Okay, now write this same article about Sony releasing Horizon, God of War, Last of Us, and the many other exclusives.

I know right? I was kinda bummed when he pretty much said “Prime 4 still in dev” and was willing to turn off the stream but stayed anyway because they said they got some Metroid.

Based on how long I’m expecting it to take to make, and how far along it seems to be (no dev at all, just concept/art/etc), I’m guessing 2026+

The trick for me on the map in Forza is to just use the filter to hide things I am not interested in doing. If you leave all the events on the map, it was barely manageable after about 10 hours of unlocking events, but 2 years later, wow that make is choc a block.

If you, the player playing the game, switch between the two modes and cannot tell what is being lost as you go from one to the other, then chances are that nothing (for you) is being lost.

Why would that floor you?

They bought Bethesda only very recently. All the money in the world wasn’t going to conjure polished gameplay footage if they didn’t have any to show off at time of purchase.

Not a defense of Bethesda, who I think have poor project management skills, but Microsoft knew what they were buying.

I mean, considering covid and a lot of folks working from home, I felt like it was a pretty good show? Excited for Flight Sim, Diablo, Horizon 5 and Far Cry 6. Will probably grab Grounded once achievements are in, which they announced.

You end up driving slower and being chill instead of a tourist douche.

You know, people could just save themselves the trouble of having to rent a car and just drive to Hawaii in their own.

Well it wouldn’t be the US if we didnt have a mess.

When Microsoft bought Bethesda, I immediately said these guys are pushing XCloud hard. It’s gonna be a great system if they pull it off, Bethesda’s big, slow-paced single player portfolio seems like a perfect fit for streaming.

You're disappointed that a Lego piano didn't have wires and hammers inside of it so you could play it? What in the actual fuck are you talking about? 

Also keep in mind this is an Ideas set so a fan designed it and gets part of the proceeds. I’m buying it day one, which I rarely do, but this thing is amazing. And it’s going in my office next to my antiquarian book collection. They’ve got another ideas set, a Van Gogh Starry Night set, coming soon too.

When it is cheaper to just buy the thing Lego is making a model of.....oy.