~things like this erode a percentage of your desired audience while attracting less desirable audiences and thus are net toxifying~

Hot take: It should never have been expected that any creatives (or really anyone for that matter) should have to work for anyone for free.

In the hours and days following the layoffs, fans on social media demanded to know what the series’ future might be, a request that seemed absurd to some of those recently laid off, such as The Walking Dead: The Final Season designer Emily Buck. “‘The Company will finish it,’” she wrote on Saturday, paraphrasing fans’…

Prior to Telltale’s statement, in a discussion thread on The Walking Dead’s Steam page, one player suggested ex-Telltale employees work for free to finish the season’s final two episodes. “If TWD cast, crew, actors and developers REALLY cared about this franchise like they claim on twitter etc., then they would…

Nope. No way I’m sorry but people saying “oh thank you telltale” and all that BS really doesn’t sit right with me. They shouldn’t release the last two episodes UNLESS they use the money they get from making a deal with what ever other developer/publisher and give it to the employees they axed without giving severance.…

The next stuido to use up and throw away its staff like used trash the way Telltale did is right around the corner. Game Devs need to unionize before that happens and gamers need to support it.

*3 Million.

I figure more people own a PSVR headset than can actually figure out Kingdom Hearts’ story.

The obvious joke answer to the heading is: “Because they’re the only ones still playing?”

I think about mass appeal a lot in games. I see it as a product of capitalist competition and more evidence that capitalism destroys art. In a world where art and media were publicly supported and funded, where they were seen as fundamentally important to humanity, there would be a variety of games that all fall along…

These little nibs that serve to give children milk and that men only have because evolution never bothered to get rid of them are EROTIC and EXTREMELY SEXY!

The best thing to do with quests in this game was how they named the quest where you had to stop people from making counterfeit religious relics “Ulterior Votive”.

In fact, I believe they said the hardest thing to do was the moment where Elastigirl puts her finger through the hole in Bob’s costume. That tiny moment was the hardest shot in the damn movie. Clothing...hard.

Death Note. It’s a meme on the ending of the series, which was originally screencaps from the Manga edited with the dialogue replaced with these “Swimming Lessons”, but then someone went and made it a gif when the anime was released.

Girls, he reasoned, aren’t toxic.

“Hand-crafted” exo-suits?

That’s just... an odd thing to point out about them. I mean, it makes them sound like they are gluten-free and made by Brooklyn hipsters.

Think about it this way: would you want to fly a “hand-crafted” fighter jet?

Tales From The Borderlands ending was very satisfying, and knew just when to stop. I think The Last of Us was the most “real” ending I’ve ever seen in a video game. 

Okay. 

To each their own I guess. I appreciate the weirdness. E3 is a show not a vidcast. They get once a year to let their hair down and fly their freak flags. I think it would be for the worse if this stuff went away.