We don’t know how the game was played, full stop. Like most of ancient history, there are plenty of theories and assumptions around online, though.

-So we can agree to disagree on whether or not a large company executive should ever fart in employees’ faces, but the whole point of Cecilia’s article was sack-tap culture is disadvantaging women, because the man (the one who hires) is going to feel afraid and uncomfortable sack-tapping a woman (hopefully), and so is…

Would guess most concerns about segregating content across multiple platforms could be avoided with a “meta-client” able to browse purchased and available games across all platforms. I really don’t like how the VOD market works atm, where I’m searching each platform individually for what I want or need to Google it…

System Shock might be cursed.

“After all, you can’t pet the cats!”

In related news, “Randy Pitchford Is A Liar” has been trademarked by Jim Sterling.

Communist pantload.

That was supposed to be the tip-off, yeah.

At least they work for, instead of against, the people. An ally of the people keeps an ear to government to hear which stories they should publish; an enemy of the people will publish any distracting story (like one about cartoon bears) to keep the public from hearing, for example, about the current administration’s…

Seems to be something amiss with the “50% or more off” search function; gave me a lot of stale pricing (and surprising posts). e.g. lists 113 units of Ocarina of Time starting at $23 (clicked out of curiosity), but clicking page shows only 2 offers starting at $43.

Seems to be something amiss with the “50% or more off” search function; gave me a lot of stale pricing (and…

Wow. I double-checked just because that seemed so bonkers. Similarly, the PS2 had retail releases as late as 2013, around when the PS4 was released (easy to forget just how long 8th-gen has dragged on).

It really was the wild west, a total anarchy completely unacceptable by today’s standards, at times both inspiring and horrifying, and you never knew what you’d find on a server list refresh given the hundreds of thousands of custom maps created. The WC3 map editor was far more robust than SC’s, allowing for the…

WC3's map editing community popularized the tower defense subgenre and spawned DotA. For many kids, it was their first exposure to pornography. Content ownership (before script minimization and obfuscation tools became common) was unenforceable and there was basically no moderation, where custom maps were constantly…

-So wait, were they forced to pay, or did TR offer to make the donation as a peace offering?

ex: donate 1m pounds to Doctors Without Borders or we’ll sue you into oblivion -or- “sorry I lawnmowered your child; I bought a pediatrics wing in his name.”

If an uninstall program threw a generic UAC prompt, I’m pretty sure the majority would click yes.

Wish we got better sales/budget numbers on games like we do with films. There’s no way they’re making money on this game. (right?) This game’s been panned so mercilessly by fans and games media alike, this has to be a huge money pit. (........right?!)

-But then I assumed Telltale was making mad money with their…

“scheduled overtime felt like an obligation”

duh?

I was surprised, tbh, to see so much of the media back off Saudi Arabia so quickly, particularly with large media companies across the spectrum, like CNBC pretty quickly backing out of “Davos in the Desert” (sorry, I’m boring). Nice to see that kind of solidarity exists. Great write-up; thanks.

Nice. I just played EE over the past month (was for LP, but OBS didn’t record all of the game audio, so w/e). Interested to see what they do with Cyberspace, because that was painful to have to look at. The cyborg and other sounds all stacking on top of each other was pretty terrible, too. For pioneering game (maybe…

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.