SURPRISE it’s a marketing gimmick and this is an ARG that eventually unlocks the newest Porygon evolution.

I said everything I needed or wanted to say about the entitlement that informs EGS rage (and no, I’m not an EGS fan—but come the fuck on) in the previous story on Ooblets.

The only thing I feel a need to add at this point is: if a person’s argument in defense of issuing death threats/sexist epithets/mocked-up photos…

What you’re noticing there is what the “Ethics in Games Journalism” crowd never could figure out, and that is something called a ‘separation of departments.’ 

See, to avoid conflicts of interests where the advertising team and their deals can influence the editorial staff’s writing, or where the writers can influence…

I blame Microsoft! Nintendo’s layout came first.

Not going to lie, adding female knights to a medieval combat games seems A LOT closer to adding an eastern sword style than a Gundam in your analogy.... 

honestly you end up getting so many weapons that I was annoyed my weapons weren’t breaking fast enough

if they don’t like the job they can just leave...

I disagree. Everything is political, because politics is about our society, and who it’s for. When people say they don’t want to bring politics into something, what they are really saying is that they want to maintain society’s status quo and pretend anything that is “other” doesn’t exist, or is too indecent to be…

I always hate this topic because too many of the people I tend to side with on the subject are.... not great.

Damn, that's almost three whole Manaforts!  

Your entire comment is unnecessary.

This post generated a lot of feedback, including a lot of frustration and anger with Ubisoft from some people who just resent the idea of microtransactions in any $60 game. I get that and tried to acknowledge that sentiment in my piece.

To make your own designs like these guys, yes, although you’d still need the game to do all the cool interactive stuff. The reason you buy from Nintendo normally is because the game comes with interactive instructions that teach you how to build the stuff, and then a bunch of games and activities you can do with that…

Can we please stop adding gate to things. Watergate was the name of the hotel, not Nixon having an issue with water lol

I feel like we just learned a whole lot about you, haha.

As much as I sympathize with the victims of the shooting, I dunno if it’s fair to hold anyone accountable for the gunner. Sans our useless politicians who prevent meaningful prevention of this shit. 

My biggest thought on all of this is the chilling repercussions this is going to have on the smaller esports scenes…

“failed to provide a safe and secure environment” for the participants, among other complaints.

Penny Arcade got a genuine laugh out of me for the first time in a while.

So people here might be wondering how this was actually done.

The last metroid fighter is in captivity. The internet, is at peace.