Make the push for unionization. Push for collective bargaining agreements. If you want to be treated like you’re actually important and not just another easily-replaced drone, cut the shit and do the thing. 

Fortnite Guile wears cologne.

High-end law firms work all over on all manner of lawyerly shit, I get it. But Actibliz could really stand to spend a bit more time thinking about how choices like this make them look. It’s not like Amazon’s union-busting efforts are flying under the radar.

It’s a top-tier handheld. Could you get a bargain basement gaming laptop for a bit more money? Sure, but that’s beside the point. Handhelds are their own market, for the most part. I don’t know that many people interested in the Steam Deck would be the same people in the market for a trash-tier gaming laptop, for…

Absolutely, I’m on board with that, too. Defector has been pretty great, in my opinion, and it gives me my snarky sports fix as well as I’d hoped when it was announced. What made the Gawker Media sites so special to me was their fuck-you attitude — nothing was sacred, nothing was beyond reproach, everything was open…

Fuck, it has been a shitty few years watching these sites just bleed talent, especially when the void seems increasingly filled with content mill-like stuff that just wastes the talent of the people who stick around.

The real problems with Twitch run far, far deeper than that. People don’t want to talk about Twitch’s most serious issues because they might just be inherent to what the site is, making the gaming community widely complicit with what is, at it’s core, deeply manipulative and exploitative. Maybe it’s more about how…

If I wasn’t experiencing a shift in things right now, I’d be all over this. Gaming magazines played such a huge part in the culture, and for me, a 90s kid who had holes in his everything, reading them was the only way I could experience new games for the most part. My soft spot for gaming magazines squishes when poked.

The final result was even more impressive than we had originally conceived.

Musicians make something. For the most part, streamers do not. Without Amazon, or Google, or any similar large corporation willing to host a streamer, streaming doesn’t exist at all. Music, movies, literature etc. exist without a publisher. Streaming only exists because those corporations know there’s money to be…

On the other hand, it makes zero sense to claim control of a person’s job simply because your product plays a minor yet requisite role in their day-to-day.

Compatibility is my main concern with the Steam Deck. It’s an expected concern, though. Hopefully Valve keeps up with ironing wrinkles as they make themselves known. The worst case scenario for me is that Valve pulls a Sony and only wants to shoot their shot and leave before the relationship threatens to progress. 

Well, to a degree all handheld consoles are going to be uncomfortable; that’s a largely unavoidable trade-off for portability.

A long time ago, I made a comment like this on Gawker and the author of the piece replied with “Gawker is not a monolith.”

No one ever competes with Nintendo... ever. I see what you’re saying, and broadly speaking, you’re not wrong. These are similar looking machines that fill a similar niche, but are ostensibly aimed at very different audiences. However, I’m over the idea that Nintendo is never in direct competition with anyone. I feel…

When Microsoft shook the gaming world with their original plans for the Xbox One, the outrage was real and necessary. But you’ll have to forgive me if I say that it seemed like a lot of that outrage only paid lip service to the underlying issue there. The industry was moving in a direction that would diminish the…

Even this year’s handhelds seem to be using the same old guts. I’ve been eyeballing an RG350 (I really dig on the metal one they released) for a while now, and keeping an eye out for other handhelds that may pop up, but I’m still waiting for some upgraded internals. More than anything, I want PS2 capabilities, and no…

Fuck walled gardens. My greatest hope for this handheld is that it disrupts the shit out of the market.

Because Spanfeller wants these sites to all be shitty content mills. 

Final Fantasy X felt so lazy to me, even at 15. It played out like a dull soap opera, and it relied so heavily on trying to tug the same heartstring throughout its entire length that if it didn’t hit in the beginning, you could easily find yourself at the end of the game wondering why the shit you’re supposed to care…