Sorry - I was assuming interview/hiring process wasn’t too dissimilar from similar jobs in other industry, don’t have first-hand knowledge of games industry. US labor market’s pretty bonkers rn, was able to get same-day interviews with HR this year.

Haven’t most of the employees already been hired elsewhere? I don’t think they’d be particularly willing to ask their new employer for a 1-month vacation to do a reunion tour.

Kind of seems like a “both ways” situation to sue cheat devs ($8M last time, right?) and not pay non-cheat devs.

Do you think they could get away with actually reproducing (a physically smaller version of) the PS2 with its backward-compatibility and have the games straight-up pressed again, with most popular included in the $100 bundle, and then you can buy whatever extra discs you want? -Or switch to flash memory and just sell…

Quite a few open-source reverse-engineering projects operate this way, though usually only for graphics. You can’t distribute assets from another paid game with your project, but it’s okay for owners to rip the graphics (or w/e) from their own legitimate copy and move it over for their personal use because the asset…

Scent and taste operate similarly. While most people will associate nostalgia, happiness, and fun with new videogames because that’s what they felt after smelling a previous one unintentionally, it’s very difficult to unintentionally lick a videogame box. However, you would probably experience a similar nostalgia if…

Friends were in this situation. She wanted to get married to prove she was happy to other people. Now, wedding’s over, they’re still paying off the debts, and cheat on each other; don’t seem to get much benefit out of the relationship. Still married, though. I had to quit job just to get away from it (one was…

My uneducated guess is that MS has it in their EULA that one account must be used only by one user and that Valve doesn’t explicitly state that in their EULA, so therefor must assume that the user may change. (but then I still don’t understand the “one day” thing; idk, it’s 50% law and 50% what some lawyer thought was…

Hello. This is your courtesy reply from the future. D:OS2 has been ported to the PS4.

Whoa, what? Welcome back, Mike!

This is why I rely on Kotaku to tell me about the new games. The newest game I’ve played is Fallout 4, and I probably won’t complete it until 2031 or so. I’ve spent decades just trying to catch up with the 21st century. Not to mention all the older movies, TV series, books, and magazines. (though I’ll add it’s still…

Just an aside, but personal finance suites like Personal Capital (free, and with mobile app) make it very easy to keep track of all expenses. By labeling purchases, you wind up with monthly and annual reports on how much you spent, with graphs you can drill down into to see which stores you’re frequenting, or which…

Welcome to this episode of CR1B5. Today, we spend the evening looking at Jason Schreier’s basement where only one PC (with two PSUs to handle the four 1080 TIs) suspended from the ceiling powers a labyrinth of over 40 rooms each tailored to a specific game.

“-So this is my Train Simulator 2018 room. It looks a lot like…

Oh, cool, someone figured out how to play Dark Souls like Youtube makes it look after a gameplay upload!

Do any companies with voice chat currently “black box” their voice chat for the purpose of reports? That seems like the solution, though I don’t like it.

Oh, that’s right! Thanks. I even remember reading that article; think it was here.

Jeez. Have they announced yet if they’re abandoning the core TES/FO games? Skyrim came out 7 years ago, which’d give the next game a much longer time between releases vs historically, so it seems like ESO was in place of a new core game since we still don’t have a proper announcement; would be disappointing if this…

Easily the best purchasing decision I’ve made this decade was buying a Brother laser printer and throwing the inkjet down into the basement a few times. Color’s not worth the time and frustration.

Easily the best purchasing decision I’ve made this decade was buying a Brother laser printer and throwing the inkjet…

>poor 3rd world peon ... basically a years’ salary
>$29,000 

nah, I just pick up a lot during the big Summer/Winter sales and sometimes Humble Bundles, so to that end, the library size is more a product of time with only ~$150-250/yr spent on games, way less than most spend, I imagine. A lot of them, I’d already played and just categorize into an age group to release into…