Having watched a couple games this weekend, the empty stadiums definitely sap a lot of the excitement out of the games. There just isn’t the same tension and drama that makes baseball work on TV. I don’t know this will fix it. I’m guessing this will make it feel more weird.

That’s awful, especially when 90% of the broadcast is behind the pitcher or shots of the batter.

After years of watching baseball it’s off putting, to say the least, to watch professional teams with literally no one in a stadium made for 20,000 people. A broadcaster recently pointed out why and I think it’s actually funny. Because baseball is so slow you end up watching some of the crowd in the down time.

Not his family, his estate, and nothing like that. No one stole his work and released it, like what’s happened here. 

We’ve known Luigi was intended for Mario 64 for years. You even link to that in the Kotaku post.

Imagine if you were an artist, you’ve put out your best work, and people loved it. You also had work that you didn’t want out so you put it in a store room. Some thieves break in said store room and release all of your incomplete, unfulfilled works. You’d be pissed. I’d be pissed. While it’s cool to see what could…

They also cancelled The Expanse, even though it’s going to be a nine-book series.

The funny thing about that story is that if Regis talked for an entire multi-hour flight it would have been a lovely experience.

I read all of those quotes in his voice.

I always liked him because he seemed to not take himself super seriously and was able to poke fun at himself and his image. Very sad.

Agreed. The weirdest thing about ESPN’s KBO broadcasts earlier this year was the lack of noise. Korean baseball is famous for its rowdy crowds and the lack of even a peep from the stands was just plain odd.

This is a great idea. There, I said it. There’s nothing creepier than silence at a sporting event. Fake CGI people is less creepy than nothing at all. As someone said, it’s unnerving without fans/noise. This season is going to be weird, so they might as well lean into it. I like it. I’m all for it. I have spoken.

Back in the Mariners’ early days there were some games in the Kingdome that had very sparse attendance—a couple of thousand in an indoor stadium that seated nearly 60,000. The players said they could often hear conversations in the outfield and the announcers complained about how the echos caused feedback on their…

Baseball has a very high ratio of downtime versus action compared to other team sports. The ambient noise actually helps distract viewers from the boring parts when nothing is happening.

Even if he did tell people to take valid action against allegations, and even if those people then failed to follow through or do what they were told, the responsibility still rests on the one giving the orders. I do a fair amount of project management at my job, and if one of the developers on a project fails to…

No. This is a horribly embarrassing idea. 

He wasn’t talking about 4, he was talking about the trilogy remaster. 

I feel like this is just a “trying too hard to come up with a hot-take on Kotaku” sort of article. I don’t have any major beef with Nintendo keeping tight lipped about the rest of the year, but I don’t see why the industry could or should be moving in a more secretive direction, it doesn’t really benefit anybody. Hype…

He said Metroid Prime Trilogy which I assume is a remastered bundle of the first three games playable on the Switch.

Counterpoint: Having things to look forward to gives people hope, even when those things are just some cool video games. This complete dearth of “hype” is really a dearth of news that could very easily indicate a dearth of actual games. There’s no real silver lining here that I can see.