Yeah, I play both CCGs (digitally mostly) and PvP mobile games, and card upgrades are a staple of the latter, whereas growing your collection and finding synergies is really what CCGs are all about. Snap has grown on me, though I expect I will shortly hit the wall where the people I’m going up against will have…

Yeah, as I’ve played it more it made more sense, in that the card progression is really just a sparkly thing to make you feel like you’ve progressed, whereas getting new card unlocks is the only true progression in the game.

I’ll admit I’m not quite getting on the hype train for this game yet... the mechanics are fresh for sure, but I think it’s the relatively meaningless upgrades that are sapping a lot of the energy for me, and to some extent the game mechanics themselves. Unless I’m missing something (I haven’t played it a ton yet), the…

So now we’re just browsing Reddit and quoting whatever thread looks good? I expect this sort of thing more from those random gaming sites that feel like AI-generated clickbait repositories than Kotaku. (Note, the “three tweets = a trend” article style that is also very popular also sucks.)  

I don’t know why they think they need this extra step as a security precaution when their existing tactic of simply not allowing anyone to log in seems to be working just fine.

Right, but you’re talking about getting the whole thing for free for season 1, and then having to buy the Premium Pass (or grind) to get new heroes beyond season 1 — which is still ultimately cheaper (if the Premium Pass is around $10) for quite a while than Overwatch was at $40. I can’t see people who like the game…

I don’t entirely get the uproar over the gated heroes. When Overwatch came out, you paid $40 and got the game and all the heroes. When Overwatch 2 comes out, you can pay $40 and get the game and all the heroes (if you’re a new player — existing players get everything already). Only now you can play it for free and…

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/