I’ve been a big fan of supergiant games, and I’m so hearted to hear they they are actually a decent company...

I’ve been following Hades development since day 1, and the small slice interview is really understating how well the directed the development of the game was. Since the game was in early access since 2018, Supergiant has had a lot of time fixing and creating new updates for the game and it was quite the journey to see…

Feels like “Best Direction” at the Game Awards is becoming the same as “Best Director” at the Oscars: it almost always just gets handed to whatever wins Best Picture/Game because people don’t put much thought into what a director actually does (or go with the logic “well the Director is in charge so best direction…

If you haven’t already, I highly recommend watching the “Developing Hell” series from Noclip on Youtube, which basically follows the development of Hades from the beginning. At no point do any of the developers seem stressed about a release (except maybe the owners). They managed timelines and released features when…

Also Animal Crossing where Nintendo delayed it because they don’t do crunch. They treat it like a 9 to 5 job as should be the standard.

Good management ability should be rewarded. If anything, that would send symbolic signals that hopefully will shift the culture of game development. Hearing how Hades was developed made me want to play the game more, and that is something we should promote.

The most alarming thing here is how readily we accept that games are so broken at sale. Would you accept a car that just didn’t work when you bought it because “well, I bet in 3 months this car will start *every* time and the brakes will work more than 90% of the time”?

Honestly? It’s probably the darkest game I’ve ever seen, and that might be the point but it’s just like, I didn’t play it but I watched a let’s play of it and like... I’m kinda glad I experienced it through a filter. Was it good? yes. Graphically. Could I have gotten along fine not watching most of the cast die and/or…

I can hear it.

All I can say is “!”

I don’t know, there’s quite a bit of recent archaeological evidence that suggests that the Vikings were much more literate than assumed. Most of what we know of the Vikings so far has been interpreted by some sexist point of views (in regards to warrior tombs and the gender of those buried there) and also through the…

I don’t know specifically when it happened, but at some point American media became so obsessed with redeeming irredeemable characters (who’re typically white men) that we stopped having shows about flawed protagonists and started having shows built on the back of genuinely bad people.

You mean an industry mostly led by workaholic middle aged men who rarely dedicate enough time to do proper parenting will somehow overrepresent bad fatherhood in a sad yet absolving way in the media they create?

Who can hate this game?

‘It presents all of Sony’s history as iconic, world-changing, adored by the masses’
One of the things that I actually thought was really cool about it is that it DOESN’T do that - yes it’s a celebration of PlayStation minutia, but it actually pokes fun at itself in a way I really enjoyed. The description for the Move…

Probably not nearly as bad as Being an American in 2020.

Squadrons is worth it, but at this point I would wait for Black Friday sales. Gamestop is throwing it up for $16.99 this week, which is a steal. I don’t have my PSPlus subscription active, so I haven’t jumped into multiplayer, where the meat of the game is, but even the single player experience is a lot of fun on its…

I dabbled in VR with some fellow colleagues at the University I work at whom specialize in VR development, and while they had some impressive equipment, I never bothered doing a home setup myself because it was so expensive.

PC gaming isn’t for me. I can’t fathom spending the time chasing the next set of performance markers and the investments in time and energy to stay current enough when everything changes every few months. If it’s your thing, awesome - but my computer’s used mainly for work and web, and my games are on the console.

We are introduced to this new story by our omniscient narrator, Master Yoda, who explains that Rey has begun training Finn to be a Jedi.