I expect every headline that starts with “George R.R. Martin” to end with “has died” at this point. I don’t read his books, but I hope for those that do, that George has secretly written them and is waiting til his dies to release them. Then he can’t face criticism, it’s the perfect plan.

Map size is not the reason that Ubisoft’s too-big games are too-big - it’s amount of “content” (side quests, mostly). If a game has a gameplay loop that benefits from a really dense world (which could be part of what this is about), that doesn’t demand that you explore every nook, but rather just benefits from the…

I feel like fighting games have always been ahead of the curve in nonbinary representation, at least implicitly. King, Ash, Testament, Bridget, Seth, Benimaru, Poison, Leo...

If Elden Ring has shown us anything its that bigger games can be fine. I’m for bigger games. I’m not for bigger Ubisoft games. The relentless tedium of them is just the worst.

I don’t think Ubisoft knows it’s okay to finish a game and think “Wow, I wish I had more of that because I loved it” instead of “I’m glad I’m finally done because that because I stopped enjoying this 50 hours ago.” Not that this isn’t also on whiny gamers who don’t know how to evaluate games outside of…

Maybe the plan is to make a game so big that reviewers won’t have time to put out proper reviews at launch thus avoiding 7/10s.

The first half sound like boring job interview questions and the second half sound like job interview questions from the “fun,” manager, who “wants to see how you think.”

What’s amazing is the difference between Horizon 5 and GT 7, if one of them was going to have overbearing microtransactions that ruin the game I would have expected it to be the one on Gamepass since most of its players didn’t “pay” for it and thus wouldn’t be as stung at the microtransactions since to them it was a…

If you need to be told not to ask “what attracted you to me” on a first date, you should re-evaluate your entire approach...

Kind of like those clips of Jay Leno “randomly” helping people on the side of the road - with a full camera and sound crew in tow.

Yeah the part where the car is clearly lined up and prepping to jump, with everyone standing there with their phones out and recording, makes the claim that this was “without warning” really really suspect.

Isn’t Alex Choi the same knob who was fucking around in the LA canyons in a Lambo AND activating Autopilot from the back seat?

“without any warning.”

lmao very LA for one of the random cars that was hit to be owned by a guy with a youtube channel

“He just did the jump with no warning! It was a good think we were all standing off to the sides of the street with all of our phones recording video, because that guy came out of nowhere!”

That looks like (brief) fun.

It appears lifehacker is looking for new writers.

With a grand total of 4 (fairly well known) tips in here...I’m very surprised this wasn’t a slideshow to maximize ad views...

Sifu seems to be really polarizing.  The people who love it really love it, but the people who don’t really don’t.  Polygon left it off their “best of 2022 so far” list as well, and gave it a middling review.