All the big awards shows are masturbatory celebrations of self-importance. But the VGAs are just commercials with some awards given out to draw attention. Gaming doesn’t have the arrogance film does, and honestly, I wish it did. I might not like the Academy much, but I like that the Oscars are all the way up their own…

Games reviews are entertainment at the end of the day, and entertainment has taken a brutal turn in the internet age. The very concept of entertainment has become something awful for too many people. It’s not enough to read a story; to watch a story, or to hear a story. You have to live the story. People live and die …

On a side note, RIP FRD. Man, I miss them.

I rolled my eyes... then he impaled Mario as a gag and I smiled. Well played, Nintendo.

I remember being a freshman in high school and playing games on Candystand. I binge games on Kongregate every so often, and have for a long time now. I’m happy these old flash games aren’t just being trashed. All games deserve to be archived. 

Sony has long had their heads up their asses when it comes to controllers. Third-party manufacturers have had to pick up the slack for a long time, and I hope they’re working hard on PS5 peripherals now.

They exist. They’re just not very popular.

I feel like from a practical standpoint, subsidizing anyone trying to make a career of being an internet friend to everyone and no one in particular is a bit strange. Say nothing of the racial component, there’s just something about subsidizing people to become full time influencers that just doesn’t sit well with me.…

There were so many concerning things in that gameplay demonstration that this comes as no surprise. It felt disjointed in a way that hinted at deeper issues than just the lackluster graphics. It looked like a middle-market game with a huge budget; like the AAA equivalent of a game like Just Cause 3.

Your condescension aside, yes, that would be crazy. Besides the fact that they’d alienate every other audience on the planet with a move like that, Chinese audiences love American blockbuster-style movies. The formula for profit there is pretty clear. Considering how wildly successful studios have been in their…

A writer was probably told that the movie was intended primarily for the Chinese market — maybe not the writer, but a writer. How do you try to appeal to an audience you know fuck all about? You get an actor of Chinese descent to acknowledge that they’re of Chinese descent on-screen. But you can’t just have the…

I was led to believe that play had no limits, Sony. An oversight, I’m sure.

I’ve always wanted a game like this, in this kind of setting. Really, my dream has long been some kind of open-world RPG in a Neo Tokyo type of city. This isn’t quite that, but it’s about as close as I may ever get.

Nothing will come of it and things will carry on as they always have. Change the headline to this post to:

The fans do what Nintendon’t.

Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another parking lot!

Oh, it makes perfect sense that he would compare it to the use of homophobic slurs. It’s Twitch, everything is performative. This is a performance for an audience, well-intentioned as it may be. You see this kind of thing all the time on social media platforms. Do you want to take a stand that really doesn’t have the…

I mean, that’s what they say. But I’m pretty sure that Patches is indeed farting, and it’s just a matter of figuring out what it means.

I remember BioWare.

The entirety of the argument I’m making is that people don’t have a clear, unambiguous idea of what is and isn’t kosher. I make it clear in my original comment that I’m not speaking directly to the specific case in this post, and that it’s a bad idea.