The Elder Scrolls are niche compared to things like Minecraft, Call of Duty, Madden, and FIFA. Those are the sorts of games that people with minimal knowledge or interest in video games buy. Whoever owns them is best off just making them available wherever so as to remove as many hurdles as possible from the most…

The funny thing is that the vast majority of damage you take in AC games (in my experience) is “by jumping off of things that are too high”.  Like when you accidentally back eject when you meant to jump for a higher handhold, or when you have the stick aiming slightly off the right direction for the leap of faith.

I mean, it’s more likely that MS makes more money by selling copies of CoD to Playstation owners than they would make by selling additional Xboxes to people if they made CoD exclusive. See also “Microsoft owns Minecraft, and sells it everywhere.” By the time that this changes, I doubt CoD would be that popular…

Yeah, I’m an Xbox owner and I’ve always honestly thought that acquring Activision was a stupid thing for Microsoft to do. Microsoft is successful enough in their other ventures that it doesn’t really matter how the video game division does, but Activision actually has a tiny portfolio of games for a publisher of their…

Still no cabbage emoji, alas.

The FTC pretty much screwed up by making their case against the merger *just* about Call of Duty. Since Microsoft is correct (and can demonstrate) that the Playstation will be fine without Call of Duty, the Switch is fine without call of Duty, hell the Xbox could be fine without Call of Duty. It’s a game that has…

From what I understand a cruise is a place where you can’t get away from people, you’re going to end up pretty sick, but at least there’s a lot of food.

Millennials are about to turn 40.  We should not be giving them a hard time.

I mean, the biggest impediment to attracting talent to a Musk-lead venture is that he will fire you on a whim, and then not pay you your contractually owed severance and then you have to sue him, which is a hassle.

The FTC had a weak case, focusing only on Call of Duty. Microsoft probably makes more money from licensing fees for selling CoD on other platforms than they would from extra console sales if they made CoD exclusive for some reason.

It always seemed likely that this was going to happen despite the objections of regulators, since the Video Game industry, like many industry, goes through cycles of “contraction through acquisition” and “expansion through startups” (when some of the acquired studios get shuttered, and talented people with experience…

Isn’t the issue here mostly about packaging?  Like you can have your THC Nerds Rope if you put it in a bag that doesn’t in any way resemble the actual Nerds Rope package?

I’m of the opinion that the “Spicy Sweet Chili” Doritos (the ones in the purple bag) are the cream of the crop, but I’ll have to try the salsa verde ones.

There’s something Shakespearean about Musk. He for years paid people to cultivate the image of him as a “maverick innovator” buying him guest spots on SNL, the Simpsons, Star Trek, etc. The PR people running this campaign for him knew well that “the less you see and hear from him the better” as he’d immediately…

It is truly a bizarre set of events that has occurred that makes Mark Zuckerberg the more likable of two alternatives.  He’s weird and off-putting, sure, but he’s not “the world’s most divorced man”, “the world’s tenderest billionaire”, or “someone who spends all day chasing clout from the alt-right teens.”

I honestly never believed John was actually dead when I saw 4. I understand abstractly that you probably want to end each of these films in a way that could be “an ending for the whole story” so if they wanted to insist he was dead, they could do that. But they absolutely left things wide open for John to come back.…

I really don’t see why not.  After Geralt’s lengthy convalescence in the books, he’s basically a different person anyway.  Even before they announced Cavill was leaving, I had figured “that was the natural point to recast if you needed to” just from having read the books.

I am not sure that “it’s a windowless building” is necessarily worse than “the windows are just open, so insects, birds, and raccoons can just get in whenever”.  Like I’d clearly prefer to live in the former, but maybe school is different.

You can still get it for free through Xfinity Rewards if you’re a diamond member (status is solely determined through “how long you’ve been an Xfinity customer).

It’s still a mystery to me why so many people involved in the games industry, a place where you know you can sell people completely digital goods that exist only in your database, decided to expose their whole ass to jump on the “you can ‘own’ this jpg of a monkey” bandwagon.