They’ve been flakey for decades to be fair.
Back in the (yes I’m old) SNES glory-days in the early-90s, Konani were up there with Nintendo themselves as being a name on the box that meant something. Last couple of decades.. some good stuff, but..

I know, I’ve probably forgotten the mushrooms I imbibed for lunch, but can’t help but feel Ubisoft has embarked on a “Let’s stop appearing as fuck-knuckles” policy.
No Season Pass, deliberately deciding not to push out a filler AC..
When I saw them actually “apologize” for AC:Unity, I thought it was some focus-group…

Hisense is *not* owned by LG.
It’s a state-owned Chinese Company. They started out making cheap and nasty stuff, but based on reviews for their current kit are making reasonably good stuff now.
I’ve spent the last week wondering whether to pull the trigger on one of their 4k sets (I currently have a decade old 1080…

Hisense is *not* owned by LG.
It’s a state-owned Chinese Company. They started out making cheap and nasty stuff, but…

Yep, I’d agree that’s EA’s contribution to “the shit I care about”.
I’m somewhat resistant to these “all the games you can eat” EA and humble are punting out. Works well for Netflix and the like, as I don’t have to invest too much time in watching stuff.
As it stands, I like most people have a Steam backlog of…

I’m sure that anybody who has a gaming PC and has any interest, has a gamepad. You can connect a PS pad, but more likely a 360 one, as there are millions lying about the place and most PC games support them natively to the extent of having a picture of the pad in options to describe the button layout, and switching…

Oh course not.
We’ll give you next day response for a support contract of 20% of your license fee.
Oh you’re quibbling Steam - yep, you’re on the rusted-iron-with-tetatus-level support contract.

I suspect it’s mainly though, as he doesn’t have investors and he has control over the game.

He releases a game, it gets slated.
He makes a call that if he recalls it, reckons he can fix it, reckons releasing it fix will ultimately benefit him. He can do this.
EA or Ubi in this position.
They’ve told the market they’ll…

I disagree - I found the driving model varied from horrific to ‘OK’ - still liked the game (but scope for improvement).

and maybe it’ll go the same way - but I find myself wanting there to be a visionary out there I want to follow blindly.
Molineux, Kojima, Miyamoto, Schafer, whoever - I just like the idea of a person “being the game” and backing them through right or wrong.

*bought* £29.99 (UK)
Why?
Well I’m not entirely sure... I loved Braid. Not liked, loved it. Few games have grabbed me in the same way. Outrun, The Monkey Islands, Doom, GTA (the first one), Crazy Taxi, Rez, Stanley Parable, Gone Home, Rocket League - there are more, and they’re all critically well received - but so are…

Nope - I’d call him a depressed billionaire has-been :)

Wasn’t just gaming:

Oh.
Really? Seriously? wtf...
OK, thanks for the info, and very glad I didn’t click ‘buy’ after a few beers.
I was (entirely without research I now realize) under the assumption that my VR headset would just plug into GPU output like a slightly tweaked monitor (that sprays head-tracking-mouse-like-stuff into a USB input).

7a.
This is my personal “money no-object-fantasy”.
Rent office opposite my current employer.
Offer to double all colleagues salary, if they’ll come and sit in my office.
Let them do whatever they want.
Give them 50% equity in anything they can be bothered coming up with.

Rocket League - or something similar.
Something fun, little bit addictive, cross-platform (I’d want a £5 raspberry Pi version) , easy to pick up, universally understandable, spend more on putting into play global low-latency infrastructure to support it - and then just make the damn thing free globally.

Actually I liked it all, apart from the driving.
Could never quite grasp what was wrong with it though - the handling just felt ‘off’ (or more likely, unlike previous games I’ve played).

Aww - harsh.
I quited enjoyed the schlocky story, with my ever-increasing powers of manipulation.

I really enjoyed Watchdogs. Standard Ubi-game, with a bit of wince-worthy 24-style-hacking, and a GTA-getting-around-model.
Up until that final mission. Maybe it was just me, but I was happily bimbling through it, enjoying the odd-failure and retry, and then hit that final mission.
Sod it. Wasn’t fun any more.

Same here. Very old overclocked i7-2600, 2 pretty old 770s, Firestrike happily handing out 11k+ score.
Tool fails both my CPU and GPUs.
I mean it’s *nice* they’ve made a tool, but AFAIK the tool just seems to have been built to provide a half-assed >= spec check - which their target audience really doesn’t need.
Would…

“If you work for GM and park a Ford in your driveway, what does that tell your neighbors? That GM is so bad that not even a GM employee will buy their products!”

erm putting aside all the rational reasons - surely this is a GM management problem.
We give them a discount, we punish them with parking AND THEY STILL WON’T…