Have you played Heat? It’s basically a return to form in a lot of ways, and believe me, up until this last release, I almost had no hopes for the series, and I say this as a die-hard NFS fan.

Heat was actually pretty damn fun if more like just popping a bunch of chips rather than a full meal, if that makes sense.

I was a big fan of Hot Pursuit 2010 but I’m also sad that this continues to mean no Burnout. I need to be able to chain ridiculous amounts of crashing together damn it.

This would be a good thing, if Criterion wasn’t a shadow of its former self. Criterion founders Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry left after EA moved 80% of their staff to Ghost...so the majority of folks who worked on Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted are now at Ghost, or gone altogether, and won’t be working on whatever NFS…

The Ghost ones were good though.

Isn’t Criterion the one that put crash cams into Need for Speed, which you couldn’t disable? Main reason I stopped playing Need for Speed. (which is weird, considering it didn’t bother me as much in Burnout Paradise. Wonder why)

I have at least 250 hours into the original... But for some reason, I can't make myself care about this game. Maybe it's age, maybe jrpgs have simply lost their charm with me... I don't know. There was a time where FF meant waiting in line and locking myself in my room. Now, I can barely muster a shrug. I've played…

Well you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here and this article isn't "gamer outrage," it's level-headed criticism of a product 

Hey you enjoy the game however you once. I stopped playing Final Fantasy 10 for a year, a year!!, because I got so involved in Blitzball.  I did the same thing with Final Fantasy 7 and sking.  

There’s even more to it.

Where I work Crunch is treated exactly as that, failure on the part of management, and that’s who sees repercussions for crunch. Because of this, crunch almost never happens, because crunch means managers losing jobs. Crunch is wasted money in more than one way.

Fuck CDPR.

Being “rewarded” with a chance to win gifts from a raffle system where tickets are “paid” via mandatory extra hours is the premise of a Black Mirror episode that has yet to be written.

I said this on Tuesday for the FF7REMAKE, and I’ll say it again... Another day, another delay reported by Jason Schreier, the oracle of delayed games.

Now ya got all summer to play through FF7 again.

“ADL assists police in arresting Nazi Gamer who hung out on Steam”

The uproar from PewDiePie fans about that donation is starting to make a whole lot of sense.

I will always and forever appreciate Kotaku’s commitment to not mince words in their headlines.

Yeah, the people who’ve been working 7/7 for months will be grateful for another whole month of crunch...

Unless you’re one of the many devs for whom this delay means 400+ hours of more work, sure.  Not bad.

Jason’s losing his touch.

But.... That episode of Simpsons was based off a combination of Moby Dick and Old Man and the Sea.  So techncially, Simpsons didn’t do it first.  BAM!  That was the sound of our universe ending.