Wow, it’s depressing how many people in the comments are saying, “No! We want Saint’s Row to be more like all the other games!”

Her schtick as “edgiest woman” on Twitch relies on Twitch maintaining an edge, drawing lines and enforcing them. Otherwise she’s just an unremarkable one of a million girls on PornHub.

A game that insists you play it a particular way which you don’t like sucks. A game that lets you choose how to play it is comfortable and often quite good. But the very best games are the ones that give you something you didn’t know you wanted, that offer a challenge you wouldn’t have chosen but turns out to be much…

Kinda on the nose that the term for being proud of yourself for finishing a single-player game is “beating it.”

Some of us have been doing our own art direction for Minecraft by editing terrain.png since 2009.

I get that having to pay for promotion sucks and that Sony’s price is exhorbitant for an indie developer.  But I don’t know what the solution is to 10,000 game developers who all shout the system is broken because it doesn’t promote their game more prominently than the other 9,999.

The problem with the Meat Circus is that it was intended to be a puzzle level where you figure out which powers make the challenges much easier, but they didn’t clue that enough so most players just tried to brute-force platform everything, which was frustrating. The Double Fine website (tongue in cheek) put it like…

You just know that if someone wanted to build a huge spinning blade (powered by fossil fuels, natch) for the express purpose of killing lots of birds, those folks would be falling all over themselves trying to defend the right to do that.

Just because Square Enix wants us to play their Marvel game every day for two years and buy lots of outfits doesn’t mean we have to evaluate the game that way. I keep seeing reviews that say, “The single player story missions are pretty good, but they get stale if you go back and grind them over and over to get an…

The original Half-Life’s “story” was perfect because it didn’t try to be a mediocre Netflix SciFi movie. It understood that video games aren’t movies and stuck to the things video games are good at. "A dude is stuck in a lab when aliens attack and has to escape" is a lousy movie plot but a perfect video game setting. 

This assumes that 0% of the Steam customers you lost buy the game when it eventually comes to Steam.

You are not Steam’s customer. You are the product Steam sells to devs. Epic is offering to sell you to devs at a better price. The devs are the ones whose customer you are. (Steam has pretty good customer service when you understand who their customers are.)

Like Steam isn't also doing everything for the money? Of course Epic is doing it to make money, but I get free games and devs get more money. That's what competition means. Epic makes money by giving me something I want and giving devs something they want.

If they sell 1 copy on Epic, and 99,999 copies on Steam, they make more money than if they sell 100,000 copies on Steam. Every person that switches from Steam to Epic gives the devs more money.

The reason these girls are doing this on Twitch instead of a soft-porn site is because they want to to be the edgiest girl on a gaming site rather than an average girl on a soft-porn site. But if Twitch allows this sort of thing, it will become exactly the kind of site they are trying to avoid. Everyone wants to be…

Oops! They got a games journalist with no interest in their game to write a front-page article announcing the upcoming DLC for it on Kotaku. What a disaster for them!

The insidious thing is that they’re selling this as “more realistic,” and people who play this will have a completely false idea that now “they know what it was like” and believe they have a more informed opinion about whether the USA should do something like this again (probably never really articulating or…

He’s not selling anyone’s paintings. He’s offering to sell something like a unique Steam Card that refers to one of the paintings. The artist can also offer one for sale based on the same painting. You can also offer one for sale based on that painting, even if Roher and the artist both already sold one.

NFT’s are for…

The Surviving Mars music reminds me a lot of the Daft Punk Tron soundtrack.

Note that the “research” Nathan refers to consists of counting how many people liked spoiled stories better. In other words it uses the exact same methodology as Hollywood using box office receipts to prove that Transformers: Age of Extinction was a better movie than Mad Max: Fury Road.