She’s the top female streamer on Twitch, which makes her Kind Of A Big Deal regardless of what kind of content she’s making, and there’s also the fact that this post has very high levels of engagement.

So he gets these two packs, which have probably gone everywhere together for the past 70 years... he willingly sacrificed the value of one pack by opening it for the sake of science and discovered the contents had unfortunately fused together over the years. A bummer of a result, but I respect that he was bold enough…

I think it says a lot that even among the readership of Kotaku, a (mostly) gaming-related site, it seems like the vast majority didn’t even realize Netflix had games, and some of us who had heard of it didn’t realize it had launched yet. People aren’t going to play games that you keep a secret.

I just want to follow up my own comment because, in retrospect, it reads as being dismissive of this person’s accomplishment of completing the entire game without taking damage, and that was not my intent.

Having played through the game twice, I just assumed everyone had figured out that constantly weaving left and right was what you’re meant to do during the chase sections.

Too many modern cars subscribe to the “Michael Bay’s Transformers Designs” school of thought. You can’t trace a line more than a few inches in any direction without hitting a crease or an angle or a zig-zag or cladding or a vent (fake or otherwise) and, consequently, there is nowhere for the eye to rest.

I’m fine with it. It isn’t as fully-featured as Steam yet, but they’re gradually adding stuff like profile pages and achievements. I don’t really see any reason to dislike it, and the game giveaways (Borderlands 3 and all three Bioshocks, plus DLC just in the past few weeks) pretty much make it a no-brainer to keep…

Man, I don’t even play that game, but just reading about trying to decide whether to peel and play the card or keep it pristine is stressing me out.

Insightful comment, and also: username checks out.

UE5 has some pretty slick new features that UE4 didn’t have, that provide cosmetic benefits as well as significant speed/efficiency gains for the artists using them.

It could just be that the Unreal engine has great features, is generally easy to work with, and has solid support. And just because you’ve spent millions developing your own engine doesn’t mean the best course of action is to continue doing so. (see: sunk cost fallacy.)

I don’t want to take any of the spotlight away from the fact that they’re doing an impressive job of raising money to help those affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but I think it’s probably worth a separate post to discuss the significance of the changes to Fortnite’s gameplay this season.

The longer this goes on, the more I am baffled by imagining what kind of yarns Putin has to spin for the Russian people in order to explain why basically every legitimate company in the world is pulling their services from Russia.

Definitely understandable. I had just started a playthrough of Valkyria Chronicles a couple days before the invasion, and while the scenarios are different, I’ll admit it feels kind of surreal to be playing a game in which an undersized nation has to defend against an invading juggernaut while seeing the same thing…

Honestly, I can relate to most of what you’ve said here (other than getting to drive a Chiron) but I can’t help but chuckle to myself as I sit here imagining the Bugatti rep who set up this experience excitedly clicking the link and then trying to mentally process such an unexpected result.

Oof. The front end looks like what you’d expect from a Craigslist posting from a random guy in the Midwest who learned just enough about fiberglass molding to come up with his own body modification for his beat-up Fiero, but instead of planning it out first he just winged it and now he’s asking $16k because it’s “one…

And, as you can see, the user already has 6 notifications waiting in the app!

They mention in the post that they’re “still ironing some things out” in that regard, so I expect the comment functionality to be one of the first things up.

This is a trickier subject than it seems.

Yeah, I fully expected this article to mention Lewdle as an alternative, particularly since it is at least partially-owned by Gary Whitta, a Hollywood screenwriter with lifetime gamer cred as the former editor-in-chief of PC Gamer magazine.