That’s really sweet, and says something positive about humans I think. But it has to be moderated by Steam’s new review vetting system just like negative review bombs are.

I really couldn’t stand the general tone of FFX-2, especially coming off of FFX which stands as one of my favourite games of all time. But the combat is a goddamn masterpiece, the apex of the well-iterated ATB format, with a tactical job system layered over it more elegantly than FFXIII could ever manage.

Hoo-ah

We lost Dick Dale last month, but he left behind some really cool music.

There are some really cool people in that community, and even though I don’t follow Pokemon regularly I’ve been subscribed to a few of them for years. I heard about these events a couple of days ago and was shocked and saddened. They always seemed so tight-knit, with collabs, in-jokes and shout-outs galore; I dearly…

“That’s okay, I’ve been punched a few times today.”

Thank you again for your dilligence, Jason, and thank you to everybody at BioWare and EA who put so many hours into their games, however they turned out.

I asked the Amplitude guys and they said they did ask the real Pluke Lunkett first if it was ok to use his alter-ego’s name on their trailer. Luke, do a let’s play of Love Thyself!

Jedi Knight was my first ever computer game. I would totally go for this. Wonder what happened to the attempts to remake it in the Quake III engine...

This really doesn’t bother me, but I’m surprised that Square didn’t anticipate it given their previous history with gender-locked races.

One-armed wolf still has an overwhelming limb advantage.

It’s often said Bioware has one of the most passionate fanbases in the business. On the internet, that means they have one of the worst. The Bioware fans I meet in real life are incredibly cool people, but whatever stratum appears of them online was for years one of the most toxic I’d seen for a single player game…

Horizon: Something Else probably.

It’s a guilty pleasure if you personally feel guilt for enjoying it; no need to apply a general label to it.

A few months ago I was wondering what happened to these guys. I didn’t know contracted by Ubisoft or if they were professional at all, but I remembered they’d received some glowing (and some cloying) press attention in the 2000s. I thought they were a self-promoting Counter-Strike clan or something. Glad to see them…

I have a friend who’s a diehard Melee fan. He bounced off Brawl, didn’t last long with 3D, but Ultimate is the one that finally cracked him. This isn’t any kind of indictment against Melee, but you can’t not have Ultimate at EVO right now and I can see how it might be bad for the fighting game scene to have both.…

History is littered with fads that explode in popularity for a couple of years only to decline, and one-hit-wonders of all kinds that never replicate that instance of success (see Telltale Games). Pokemon was the exception rather than the rule when it comes to these things.

I’d really like to see EA do something creative in the next few years instead of basing all their decisions on market research. Right now they’re seeking their money from the service shooter and battle royale trends, and Apex: Legends shows that they’re taking creative control out of the hands of their developers to…

Excellent news!

I want to like to like Anthem, but the demo last weekend didn’t function for me and everything about its release has that EA soapscummy feel that was all over the Battlefront releases. Which is to say, congratulating itself on the multiple release dates and access tiers, with only minor address of the concerns people…