The pay gap between executives and workers is widening. Costs are only going up. Margins are thin. Crunch is inevitable. Developers are routinely laid off through no fault of their own. Microtransactions, loot boxes, and downloadable content dominate the landscape as publishers try to make back the exorbitant amount…

They don’t want to pay the actors for their character likenesses, which is why they spam all the helmets, droids, aliens, and Wookiees

They don’t want to pay the actors for their character likenesses, which is why they spam all the helmets, droids,…

The Disney marketing machine keeps on humming along. Not even a pandemic can stop them.

The Disney marketing machine keeps on humming along. Not even a pandemic can stop them.

Duplicate. Thanks Kinja.

Duplicate. Thanks Kinja.

The Lions ain’t going anywhere for 2020, but I have to hand it to them. This was pretty awesome.

There will be a lot of fallout, but the one thing I’m hoping will go extinct are the dumbass floor designs that incorporate shared long tables, along with their high stools. If I wanted to go to a cafeteria, I’d go crash a high school during lunch hours instead.

Best wishes, and continue to take no bullshit wherever you go. As Vyse once told us,

Metal Gear Solid: Dance Dance Snake Revolution: The Pachinko VR Edition

Microsoft puts out a boring textbook by the numbers announcement formula. Trailers with no gameplay footage. A wall of studio logos. What else did they do?

The irony is that, while looking all shiny and super-detailed, most cutscenes today expose poor scene blocking, janky character models, and worn-out cliched dialogue. Actual gameplay footage in this day and age would serve the marketing potential a lot more. There’s no need to hide 32-bit sprites behind fancy…

Yeah, I’d say Nintendo is doing alright nowadays.

The original SAC episodes are looking like the benchmark that the franchise will never be able to surpass in our lifetime. That’s fine by me. Those two seasons delved deep enough into that world to last me a good while. A permanent fixture in my library.

If I recall correctly, the pc version of Red Faction had a map maker. The catch was, barely anyone knew how to use the tools. lol

The materia system in both the original and this one still kicks total ass. Customization possibilities are just unbeatable.

Just finish it. The endgame content will keep you busy prepping for hard mode. The level skip feature is super-generous, unlike how a lot of other games tend to handle their new game + (or whatever the buzzword might be) modes. Go wupp some ass. There’s also that nighttime pond scene at Aerith’s house that has three…

Please shoot VR goggles and put it out of its misery. It will never be adopted as a viable gaming peripheral, no matter how companies want to spin it.

Oh! The studio that did the Worms games. Cool.

Marketing sure loves them cutscenes. To them, gameplay footage is second banana. Probably because they aren’t gamers. That's right, I just generalized and pigeonholed them. And I don't care. lol

So there were vikings, and also... viqueens?

That’s my hope and assumption as well. People have to remember that this is only the first episode, and that any current restrictions could only be because it’s the Midgar section of the game.