If you like old FPS games, the Marathon Trilogy by Bungie is a free download online.  Fantastic story-driven series.

I can’t actually confirm this, but I heard from a friend of a friend who works at a major streaming service that they’ve been working with Nintendo on a deal. This could be a precursor to them announcing all/most/some Nintendo soundtracks being available via streaming...

If recent lawsuits are any indication, Jeff Koons would probably have a good case to sue Rockstar.

He didn’t say anything about crunch, just a general wish that Bioware make a good product. Given what we know now, it appears that crunch is what killed Anthem in the first place, so I doubt he’s calling for that.

I had a similar issue with Skyrim. Not about perks, but about quest lines. If you play all the big optional quest lines in that game, by the end you’re a werewolf who’s an assassin who’s the leader of the Mage’s College who’s the Dragonborn savior, and probably six other roles I can’t remember right now. And all the…

I can only assume that they’ll now start ban players who use level 1 guns for exploiting glitches

“More commonplace are streamers with 20,000 or so followers, whose tightrope walk between “distant star” and “relatable gamer” draws in smaller but no less passionate audiences who feel they know, and can trust, the objects of their fandom. Microcultures around these microcelebrity streamers collect in tidepools on…

Now that you’re an old pro at the game, do you turn off the visual cues(the pipes and ramps turning red)? I remember in my subsequent playthroughs that turningoff the indicators made the game feel even more liberating because it then felt like there could be innumerable paths to take, instead of just bee-lining for…

There have been multiple posts on Jezebel in the last week that are an invasion of privacy of consenting adults(Bezos and gf). Can we please stop now? I’m about to take a long break from this site.

Love you guys, love the podcast.