Well, if that ain’t the greatest summations of everything wrong with gaming and gaming culture (and a lot of the rest of the world) ever to be uttered, unironically.

As I said before, the Diablo community is really toxic. They remind me of those Smash Melee fanboys that want an update to their beloved D2 and are willing to put the developers’ heads on pikes for it.

Don’t forget that there was a second, even better Poker Night game. It had Max (Sam’n’Max), Ash (Evil Dead), Cl4P-TP (Borderlands) and Brock Samson (Venture Brothers) and - most importantly - Glados as the host!
It is one of the very few games in my library where I actively went achievement hunting ^^

The complete silence from the crowd after the video says everything about what a misstep this is considered by the fanbase. Easily the worst received announcement of the keynote, and the one they had hyped up the most.

Was really hoping for WC 1+2, especially since we currently have a working WC3 downloaded from bnet.

Bethesda games - at least Skyrim, the most recent one I played - don’t commoditize their worlds quite as intensely as the Ubisoft-likes. The numbers and checklists are somewhat more obscured, making them feel more like worlds and less like theme parks/tax forms. Admittedly, the Elder Scrolls games did gravitate more…

For me, it’s because Red Dead Redemption 2's extra world details point towards a larger desire to simulate something real and actual. That impulse and the details that go into it are directly at odds with the people in the world itself, who cannot ever be real or have agency because they exist (perhaps here even more…

As a Packer fan, and someone who likes Ty Montgomery as a player, all I have to say is this...

So i bought the digital version and I’m about an hour in. Congrats to the devs. It’s super fun for me right now because I like flight combat games and stylized games. So this is kind of like xwing meets ratchet and clank meets overwatch. I see what Fahey is getting at, but I’m going to hang in there. They’ve…

Amiibos do kind of have an advantage in that they aren’t tied to a single game and they don’t have the expectation of doing a single thing. It's the one example of toys-to-life that actually seems like it has long term legs, even if they are getting into some wonky territory these days (the triple sized Detective…

Seriously what a heartbreaker.  I was looking forward to a fun gameplay loop with stuff to do.  I guess that’s the challenge with space shooters; they kind of are what they are?  

Odessa, the lady who is convinced she’s the reincarnation of odysseus who you meet on that tiny island next to the starting island, totally sleeps with you and joins your crew but not until you do her follow-up mission.

Kirk, this is easily the best game review I’ve ever read, but also the best writing of any kind that I’ve read on this website. I enjoyed your creative narrative prose over the the technical trappings of FPS and other “data.”

Fair enough place as any to say that we’re here and not going anywhere. And we’re not anyone’s punchline.

Obama lost more offices for the Democratic Party since prior to WWII. Who’s fault is it that he’s that bad at politics he couldn’t maintain the coalition that voted him into power? The voters, or Obama?

I dunno. His 14 years in the spotlight has shown that he hasn’t been as sharp or as smart as he was when he was just a constitutional law professor. His record speaks for itself. He’s wishy-washy, and that’s not what the Democratic party needs next decade, when socialists like me will be driving the bus.

“Commenters, you magnificent bastards, I read your posts!”

Clutch move with the preemptive Chopped GIF.  Saving a lot of comment space.

More pressing thing I can think of is a data breach.

It’s the latter. The big companies buy up stock months in advance now (it’s the same with big books) and this game seems to have gone into physical production very late compared to others.