I swear I could have wept when the first teaser image of The Last Guardian hit. It was just a picture of a chain, and I was with it. It’s crazy for me to think that by the time the game actually released so many years later, I just didn’t care. I’d moved on by then.

A friend of Nandin has started a fundraising page so that “his mom never, ever has to worry about any out of pocket expenses.”

For me the game feels entirely made for creators...

Eat some good ass food. Have some good ass conversation. Smile and play some good ass games with some good ass people. Keep safe around some good ass grandmas. Have a good ass holiday. 

Cities like the one in Cyberpunk don’t come along often. They’re ambitious by virtue of the fact that that level of detail is rare and hard to pull off, not to mention expensive. Whether or not the final game reaches the bar set by the marketing is another story, but the hype behind it is completely understandable.…

Wait, you’re telling me Roach wasn’t meant to walk on his front legs or hang out on the roof of huts? I was under the impression he was just a badass horse doing badass horse shit.

I suppose there’s nothing shocking about it. It’s one of the most hyped games of the last 10 years, and for good reason. It’s ambitious in a way most games aren’t. The again, No Man’s Sky was another ostensibly ambitious game that sold really well even though it was actually a pretty standard affair with a few…

I love the PSX aesthetic. I wish it were more popular than it is, I really do. I would pay good money for an open world game like Cyberpunk made to look and behave like a PSX game. I’m serious, devs. I’d support that Kickstarter.

Oh, how I feel so bad about pirating now. How ever will I sleep at night.

Nothing about this seems kosher to me. But whatever, this is content creation. Nothing in the world of internet content creation surprises me anymore.

Gross.

I hope they raised hell. I don’t know what the labor landscape looks like in Poland, but goddamn if this game doesn’t make a very strong case for unionization all by itself. Devs had their fingers worked to the bone and this was the result.

I still wish we knew what actually happened to No Man’s Sky. The Sean Murray Redemption Tour seemed to gloss over the fact that something serious had to have happened for the game to have been cleared of what had been a pretty well-defined central concept. It’s easy to understand why the game is what it is today, and…

Twitch simps for shareholders. It won’t be enforced because it’s utter nonsense, but it’ll look good in some meeting on community retention or some shit. Look at how they’ve made inroads with the incel community!

Yeah, I’m sure the devs of Mario 64 are losing sleep that I’m emulating their game. They’re big on the sanctity of gaming.

Yeah, I’ll never feel bad about pirating Nintendo games. They can have their money celebrations all they want. I’d rather celebrate the playing of games than the buying of games.

“How could we have been so blind to that thing we didn’t want you to see?”

If a company does something good, awesome! Now do another good thing or fuck off. There’s such a strange and disconcerting undercurrent of shame among gamers online that seems to have people walking on eggshells when talking about benefitting yourself over some gaming company or another. It’s like the Catholic…

If they were really committed, they’d stop treating us like children and produce a series of video game Schoolhouse Rock cartoons. I learned more from Conjunction Junction than I could ever learn from a feel-good list of corporate platitudes.