Not sure whether this one would be for me — the art is very nice — but while I’m enjoying our current board game renaissance, I do wonder when we’ll move beyond this FOMO-plagued funding mechanism. Even if you’re someone that keeps up with this stuff, it’s easy to miss a lot of great games or only hear about them…

For some people, there is no solution, the outrage is the point. And for a lot of others, there is no solution other than “Erase yourself, because white people have had the spotlight for too long. Stop creating, so non-white people can be more represented.”

This whole thing strikes me as odd – what did they “fuck up”? You point out that this project would have used the environmentally-friendly Solana blockchain, then you ignore the fact that you just said that to go on to validate the objectors’ supposed concerns about its environmental impact. Nobody is forcing you to…

I couldn’t care less about Bialik or who hosts Jeopardy!, but Bialik is not an anti-vaxxer and most of the other shit I’ve seen floating around about her is basically narrative building and comments taken completely, deliberately out of context.

Completely agree – there’s a lot of performative outrage going on here, as usual when something like this comes up – its actually incredibly easy for something like this to accidentally occur, especially given how primed everyone is these days to see and hear something that causes outrage. One guy thought he heard…

I actually don’t disagree with the idea that linking to a purchase platform could be considered biased (though literally every site does it daily, e.g. links on this platform to Steam, Amazon, etc. regularly) – I was originally going to link to either the developer’s microsite, which is http://koshutin.com/ (worth…

I don’t know why articles like this so often omit any kind of link to the actual game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1434950/HighFleet/

I picked this up mostly out of curiosity, knowing it wasn’t likely my thing, and it isn’t. Nicely done, but a game designed to be as punitive as possible, even more so than a Souls-like where it’s more about learning how to deal with specific challenges than overcoming random bad luck — which I would be cool with were…

I will probably check this out despite having little interest in either roguelikes or punishingly difficult games, partially just because it’s from Housemarque. But I tend to fall for these “new system showcase” type games. I will definitely be buying the disc version so I can sell it, however.

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It’s a shame, though not super surprising given the state of the movie exhibition biz. I loved the Minnesota location (haven’t been to any others), and there really isn’t anything else in a lot of markets that’s an alternative to the AMCs of the world in terms of both sensibility and actual offerings. Hopefully it…

It’s almost like any game tied to the Vampire: The Masquerade franchise is cursed, doomed to never develop any further, feeding off the – OK, maybe it doesn’t quite work, you get the idea. Thinking about the cancelled CCP WoD MMO that I was actually looking forward to...

Ultimately this is true – scalpers are essentially moving a small part of the supply from people with an excess of one thing (time, to be able to research and show up exactly when and where they need to be to snatch up the available supply within a 20 second window, and also luck) to people with an excess of another…

Not intending to split hairs, but as Batista Thumbs Up also pointed out, MLB Slugfest was really the NFL Blitz/NBA Showtime of baseball, as it was 3D – the 2D video capture style of NBA Jam/High Impact Football/NHL Open Ice/WWF WrestleMania is what Power-Up Baseball was doing. But yes, Midway did indeed do crazy…

Gamehistory.org’s article showed at least an in-progress version of the cabinet, though it doesn’t actually have the trackballs this game supposedly had:

About the same here, on PS4 Pro (I also have it on Stadia, I may do my second playthrough there), it definitely does crash at least once per session, which is not great, but that’s the only real issue I’ve encountered. I do wonder if anyone in the G/O Media network (or really the gaming press in general) is allowed to…

Though the comments here may or may not be representative, based on my general observations it seems to me the attitude toward this game is shifting toward “the negative hype was overblown, it’s actually a good game,” but of course the gaming media is so invested in the narrative it has built that it has to keep…

Of course the PS5 is only so “available,” except through scalpers. But hey, there are some great deals out there, like the one for $31,500 that comes with a free 1991 Nissan Skyline GTR, or several that promise they’ll donate 20% of their $10,000 asking price to charity! (These are extreme examples, but the fact is…

I foolishly typed out a long reply on my phone, only to have it glitch out thanks to Kinja’s shitshow of a mobile implementation, but then it would probably just hide my comment as “pending” anyway, so why bother.

Enough already. We get that gaming media choose to create and then build upon a specific narrative for every major news story, and the story leading up to the Cyberpunk launch was “Cyberpunk is troubled” with the trans disrespect angle and the crunch angle being flogged again and again, and the story now is “LOL…