I’m rarely if ever in favour of big companies suing the ‘little’ guy but to be honest, fuck these guys. Their attitude is ridiculous.

Yes it did.

Can’t believe this is a site that just last month was throwing a tantrum for not getting preview access to Far Cry 6 and criticising other sites for the way they handled the game, and now a brand new title comes out and they’re telling people “hey, you don’t have to buy the game or the hardware, download the ROM…

Oh, piss off with all that. This is piracy, and you’re blaming the company for it. Don't pull shit like that to try to justify it.

They have to do the separate buttons instead of a D-Pad because when you’re playing two-player and each player has their own Joy-Con, those are their A, B, Y, X buttons.

So when they don’t do it, it’s “holy shit Nintendo, this is so obvious, you guys are weird”. And when they do it, it’s “holy shit Nintendo, this is so obvious, you guys are weird”. They can’t win.

I’ve always been angry that the generally accepted ‘internet’ history of the games industry is an American-centric one, focusing on the “video game crash” of the early ‘80s. In reality, gaming was absolutely thriving in Europe (and especially in the UK) during this period, and Sinclair’s products were a huge reason…

Ahhhhhhh, I get you now! You rented the game and your pre-owned Xbox had a save on it. I stand corrected :)

Great review but I can’t let that Xbox 360 metaphor slide: a rented 360 disc version of Dark Souls wouldn’t have another player’s half-played game save on it ;)

Because the Saints Row series has a reputation for being ridiculous and over-the-top and the developers have literally said, on video, that the new one will dial things back significantly, as is abundantly clear by the subsequent video presentation they posted.

To be fair to Nintendo, though, given the Switch’s handheld nature and the fact its architecture is pretty different from that of the Wii U, it was never really going to be able to take Wii U discs (or even digital games) and play them without a hell of a lot of work. Considering about three people bought a Wii U they…

No, you’d have to be a “special type of fool” to cast judgement on something before you even see it. The upcoming Saints Row reboot shows that nothing is tonally guaranteed in gaming, and while the new Far Cry’s mechanics may be similar – which is what the previews actually address, if you’d read them – the narrative…

Yes, I’m serious. Believe it or not, you can’t just copy and paste the same preview onto every game they make. It doesn’t matter how it’s sold or marketed, every game has to be judged on its own merits, and if the preview version shown doesn’t give the full narrative then that’s one part of the game that can’t be…

Pretty bold to call out other publications and try to tell them how to do their job. It takes you 350 words to get to what I suspect is the reason for this – that during preview phases the press is sometimes only shown part of the game so it’s hard for them to tell at this stage how the narrative will go. Can’t help…

To be fair, as someone who has an Honours degree in journalism, that isn’t the first thing you’re taught. In fact, I was never taught that at all. I don’t necessarily agree with John in this case but that’s purely down to having a different opinion. Let’s not pretend it’s a failure to do his job properly.

You’re trying your best to make us feel sorry for the guy but it’s not happening. ROM sites are expensive, are they? Then maybe he shouldn’t have started one. It's illegal to make money off the damn things, and "but I need to be able to afford keeping the site active so I can give away even more stuff I don't own the…

Obligatory “Aladdin isn’t an RPG” comment.

Sorry, but if the guy’s track record with leaks has been “spotty as of late”, then this is a complete non-story.

“There will be no Stranger Things on Nintendo consoles.”

There are sites like archive.org where people upload collections of ROMs because they want to preserve and share them there. So that blows this whole "but he needed to be able to afford to run the website" argument I keep seeing out of the water.