I just want to say, I don’t play basketball games and in fact couldn’t care less about basketball, but I’m greatly enjoying these reviews. Can’t wait for 2K24.

You know what they should really add to this — hear me out — is a set of toys that interact with the game, so you collect the toys and then the associated characters appear in the game. They could even add Star Wars and Marvel characters. The possibilities are... endless. Limitless. I feel like there’s another word…

This strikes me as similar to being angry that Portal shifts from being an actual portal testing simulator to a defeat-the-evil-robot narrative (sorry, um, spoilers I guess?) — clearly cat-plus-robots-in-cyberpunk-town was the game they wanted to make, not a cat simulator. I don’t actually disagree with the author…

No doubt there are people who are addicts in a classical sense who get ensnared in schemes like this, but I suspect the majority are simply people who make a choice to play and decide not to check their impulses. The term “whales” came from casino gambling, and those whales are generally rich people who drop a pile of…

Yeah, I completely agree that for-pay loot boxes are bullshit and it’s probably wise to outlaw them. I don’t mind them as much when they come as rewards for gameplay. The larger question of F2P monetization is stickier but I still would rather game companies go back to thinking like entertainment providers and…

I agree that the F2P monetization model sucks, and has sucked since its inception. It’s unfortunate that Blizzard went this route with Diablo: Immortal, though I agree with the authors that I haven’t found it to be excessive or annoying at this early stage.

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…