You know what sucks? Working a 12 hour day on freelance rates to single-handedly run a website, and spending most of that time trying to highlight unknown indie games, to then find the only comment under a review of a properly great game deserving of wide attention is some sneering wankery complaining about a slightly…

The right to bodily autonomy and privacy is not political.

It’s not about “fairness of opinion,” it’s about what your health insurance and benefits that you rely on every day will cover and provide.

I hope it runs well, but I can’t imagine it will. The VR update was celebrated by them, but definitely didn’t perform well.

Don’t tell anyone else this, but I thought the Batmobile was legit fun with some controller-layout tweaks.

I didn’t mind the Batmobile in Arkham Knight.

Eh, disagreee. I can remember both games but with City I also remember how much of a fucking chore it was to get around from one side of the map to the other which the game frequently needed you to do.

Not to mention there are hundreds of games there at any given time. Its been this narrative here for a while with the anti-game pass takes. But I’ve been playing tons of games pass games. I rarely even buy a game these days. I feel like Ari forgets that normal people don’t play every single game that hits and just…

Xbox Game Pass has had a rocky few months

Anyway, reading through the article all I could remember was that one time a few years ago where a game journalist spent like a solid half hour trying to get through Cuphead’s tutorial because he couldn’t figure out how to jump good (despite there being a tutorial on the wall behind his character)

To be fair, it’s easier to not care about delays when you are an indie studio that created a bestseller.

I’m not going to name any names, here, but it seems like SOMEbody might be trying to build a personal brand for themself, hoping to put together a decent reel and a sizeable enough media presence to open up some opportunities on other platforms...
Yeah, there was literally no reason this had to be a video, other than…

fuck videos, type the fuckin thing out

Decent vid.

Tell your designers to remove the fake progress bar, so you can pause, control volume, and scrub to rewatch sections.

I DREAM of a bright and vibrant cell shaded Sonic game. Those abstract landscapes would be SO COOL to explore... 

Game Pass is pretty awesome, though.

Yeah, I despise paying $15 a month to get brand new games every week!

I too am in the “Sonic doesn’t work in 3D space” camp. I prefer the snappy, polished, well crafted 2D Sonic platforming over linear stage design, homing attacks that decide to attack the bottomless pits and a 3D camera more drunk than Jeff Hardy.

I think what bothers me most is like... why do we need an environment with photorealistic textures and natural-looking plant life? Our first exposure to Sonic was with colorful cartoony worlds and geometric palm trees and the overall cartoony look of Sonic himself just doesn’t vibe with his environment.

Why can’t we…

Basically, Zach and his team spent all the time that most devs use to learn how to make a conventionally good game learning how to make what is essentially the crystalized meth amphetamine of engineering and design puzzle games.