While I do think it’s fucked that cities are essentially being given the opportunity to pay Amazon for the pleasure of its patronage and not the other way around, a federal law banning the support of private business interests is not the way to go. If you’re looking to stimulate growth, you may wish to help subsidize…

I’d be the first person to criticize Brady’s off-field attitude, but come on. You don’t go after people’s kids. Ever.

I’m back on Endless Space 2, with its new DLC. If you like strategy games, give ES2 a go.

I didn’t know this stereotype existed, and it’s not something I’d encountered in my use of Twitch. Problem is, there are always going to be people who objectify women in any environment, especially the faceless exchange of the internet. At this stage, if you think you have any reason to call someone a “whore”, it’s…

Ten bucks for four hours of story? Might have to pass on that one.

Really enjoyed the game overall. But... Combat system was not enjoyable for me. It forced me into stealth mode very early on, which is fine, but then put cheesy boss battles in my way at the end, which was not fine.

I think it’s because the bits we love got put on the backburner. By far the best bits of both Inquisition and Andromeda are the linear story missions, but there are so few of those compared to the number of enormous worldspaces that Dragon Age had to gate them in several ways and ME Andromeda could actually be…

Yes the media has a toxicity problem about EA, but their approach to Anthem does scare me and so does your article, even. First there’s the systematic shutdown of developers. Everything about Visceral’s demise is a red flag, and after Andromeda it feels like BioWare is on probation. Your testimony of Bioware folks…

I managed to finish it last week, and though I love the setting and like the story I was struggling by the end. The gameplay loops are still repetitive—here’s a fort; sneak or smash up to your objective point; then maybe get told you’re doing a boss fight, which the combat system isn’t good enough for IMHO.

Shout out to the voice actors too for making the characters seem so real. One of my favourite things about Bayek is how well he gets along with children. You see it in the temple of Sekhmet on Lake Mareotis, his interactions with Reda, and when Hotephres and Khenut’s arc comes along in Faiyum it really gives scope to…

It’s smaller than the gaping Bacterian-sized hole.

I’d love to finish the extra content on this now that I’ve finished the story, but I’m a bit burned out on infiltrating forts.

I finished Origins’ main story this week, having missed out on Unity and Syndicate. While I loved the world and liked the story and characters, I felt the switch to a leveled system was unnecessary and by the third act had tired of the fact that EVERY quest involves you infiltrating some fort for murder or rescue. I…

I feel like there’s a whole system of etiquette that servers have but is unknown to customers in general. Have you thought about publishing a book?

My partner and I played Strip-Soulcalibur once. That was excessively fun, and made the fights a bit more competitive I think.

This is one of the things Andromeda does brilliantly. I’ve never thought the game deserved all the crap it got, evidenced I suppose by the 300 hours Origin says I’ve put into it. Sure there’s only one new species to interact with outside the disappointingly-generic kett baddies, but Andromeda successfully captured one…

I was leaning towards the one on the right being real at first based on the creases in the bodysuit, but examination of the bone structure of the shoulder, skin detail and the background (which shows off the artificial lighting and shadows) changed my mind. Damn good stuff by both parties.

Ran out of reasons to stick with Chrome a couple of years ago; it’s been Firefox ever since. Aside from the functional benefits, it’s kinda nice to have a browser that isn’t provided by a data-gobbling megacorporation.

Amazing visual design is just one facet of a memorable character. Luke citing the example of Final Fantasy XV is a good one, because while those characters are not visually striking they do have pretty distinct personalities. I might have enjoyed Armoured-Gorilla-Arms Gladiolus, or Purple-Hot-Pants-And-Thigh-Highs…

I like to think Rey’s mundane origin was the writers thumbing their noses at the incessant fan theorycrafting that goes on in films and TV these days. I feel like in TFA they wanted to convey that it was something heavy on Rey’s mind, but didn’t anticipate the public reaction and particularly relished slamming the…