It’s already the new “Switch Pro confirmed.” Remember that?

Or maybe it’s related to Christmas?

I’m just stating what should be an obvious fact. Consolidation isn’t inherently good or bad. It can lead to good things for employees and customers alike. Or it can lead to bad things. Neither outcome is inherent to consolidation itself.

Can you actually refute any of my specific points or does your argument simply consist of “consolidation is bad mmkay?”

While some cheered, excited for future Call of Duty and Diablo games to be added to Game Pass, the reality is this deal is likely to lead to more layoffs and other problems in the future. As fewer and fewer companies own everything, the lack of competition leads to rising prices and more powerful corporations that…

I mean there’s already some AI tools in Visual Studio. Error checking and autocomplete are effectively that, and they’re incredibly useful.

I think the big concern should be that companies will lean into “good enough” rather than “good.” Eg, with translation via AI, yeah you can do that but it’s not gonna be good,…

Kotaku was probably furious when the plow was invented.

I hope you're right, as the Portal seems like a collosal waste of money. I mean, for half the price you could buy a Backbone controller for your phone and get the same functionality, plus cloud streaming, usually over cellular data, and Bluetooth so you don't have to buy special proprietary earbuds. But if there's one…

Shocking that people aren’t wild about $60k (at 7% interest!) cars with limited, often-broken charging infrastructure and insane repair and maintenance costs.

Bethesda’s future business model is fully on display here. Folks who thought Fallout 76 was going to be a stop-gap gimmick they flinched from when the player base plummeted are seeing instead that every Bethesda game from now on is going to just be Fallout 76 with five coders writing the dialogue between debugging…

I did it in this order: Freestar/First Half of Main Quest/UC Sysdef+Crimson Fleet/Last Half of Main Quest/UC Vanguard/Ryujin

It’s boiling down a mechanic to its most superficial function, and then judging it solely on that, something that Bethesda has been more and more guilty of.

I just... don’t get people who spend all their time walking around not really *doing* anything in games.

With the amount of anticipation surrounding the game, it's actual footprint has been pretty weak online after the initial 2 weeks. Like BG3 is still getting talked about. TOTK basically dominated the conversation for two months. Starfield just kinda disappeared which is weird for a game of that scale

Yeah. I’m a Bethesda fan and I like Todd Howard, and I understand why he feels he can’t say it, but I’d respect a very simple response like “yeah, vehicles would be cool and we would’ve preferred to include them but CE simply won’t let us do that; we’re hopeful that Starfield 2 will have that functionality when it…

“It’s like No Man’s Sky”

No Man’s Sky has both ground vehicles and even at launch allowed you to fly your ship around intra-atmosphere.

So, no, not actually like No Man’s Sky, then.

“Creation Engine wasn’t designed for fast movement of any kind, and also explains why you can’t fly your ship around a planet, either.”

GTFO, it looks fantastic. 2D games can be just as amazing (if not moreso, in some cases) than 3D games.

Of course, the elephant in the room is Nintendo. Everyone likes to pretend they’re not a competitor, but they’re wrong.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.