What is even left in your life if you’re capable of pouring so much emotion and energy into something like this? Is this literally all you have? I don’t even care enough about this as an issue to be typing this, so it’s hard to imagine what it takes to make death threats and coordinate hate campaigns against…

Wow, lotta hate for a guy for suggesting he wouldn’t mind an occasional show of appreciation for catching a potentially costly bug while accepting his McDonald’s-level hourly pay. Somehow several people managed to imagine he was asking to “be paid more,” “(to receive) a bonus,” “to get a promotion,” or astonishingly,…

Completely agree. I realize the challenges of filling the internet’s giant gaping content maw, but most articles written about major games are essentially narrative building, for entertainment and click chasing, not an honest and fair assessment of their strengths and weaknesses. Because at the end of the day, I think…

Exactly, and BR players like the ones getting slaughtered have been conditioned to accept that quickly dying again and again is somehow the way of the world, and not an antiquated way of handling differing player skill levels. It’s kind of like wanting to play a pickup game of basketball, but you are forced to play…

Yep. Heather’s argument here is puzzling, and seems like an attempt by someone who really enjoys something to put themselves in the shoes of someone who doesn’t, and missing the point. I do not understand the appeal of BR games in general, a genre in which you are almost guaranteed to lose, get virtually nothing when…

“OMG this is horrible” – The Internet

At its best, Fallout 76 does still have a lot of what made both previous Fallout games and MMOs so involving - it may lack the involving storytelling and deeper content of previous Fallout games, but it has the emergent gameplay possibilities and underlying systems to support a lot of great things in the future.…

Most likely they are better off for not announcing something before they were very, very comfortably ready to do so, given that anything they might have said or shown would then be referenced for future “lies” and “betrayals” if the final product differed or was seen as inferior in any way.

Maybe all the birds wear those as accessories in Water Town...

Doesn’t the MTV Movie Awards already have this covered?

Keep in mind these are kid-sized, even though they are very nicely decorated. For some reason I can’t post an image, but you can see it here: https://www.gamestop.com/toys/arcade1up-rampage/157866

Keep in mind these are kid-sized, even though they are very nicely decorated. For some reason I can’t post an image,…

What a cogent argument! I mean, except that Napoleon Dynamite isn’t a person and that the famous dance from that movie itself drew inspiration from other black dance styles. Keep fighting the good white fight!

Wow, what a buncha haters. “I would literally throw up, punch a hole in the wall and burn down my house in outrage if Nike sent me a free pair of rare basketball shoes that will probably resell for hundreds.” My guess is the rarity of these alone will make them sought-after by collectors.

This cultural moment we’re in always amuses me... there’s this concept of “what the fans want” and it will not be denied, as though the creators of games/movies/TV/music are nothing more than fanservice generators. And then specifically within gaming, the various subcultures and the presumed hierarchy therein…

Ooh, could this be a console version of the 10-player arcade game Killer Queen? Could be interesting...

This looks like it would eliminate the need for actual cats.

I still recall (with some fondness and a little embarrassment) the old school EverQuest/Dark Age of Camelot grind — find an area you can stake out, preferably with a friend or two, designate a puller/kiter, and spend the next 2-4 hours killing the same mobs over and over, to gain a fraction of a level. There were of…

So will Thanos’ super power be to instantly kill half the remaining players? Or will it be builds-tower-really-fast-and-shoots-you-with-a-shotgun, like the other new “superheroes”?

I think Fortnite would be greatly improved by the addition of optional, experimental modes tied to activities like this. There’s a big enough playerbase right now to allow for trying out some wacky things (I’d love to see PvE-only events, like a horde-type game, a scavenger hunt, etc.) without it totally fragmenting…

This is not the first example of this by any means, but I just want to point out that we’re living in an era in which choosing one video game over another is referred to non-ironically as “masculine” or displaying “machismo.”