Reading this article, I wonder if some of that “endorsement” comes from the strong ties to smut that fanfiction has. Like, okay not all fanfiction is smut and not all fanfiction is romantic, but if you’re a teenager getting into fanfiction... it’s probably gonna be romance/smut. In that sense, it’s easy to…

love her stuff! I followed her on twitter and saw her getting harrassed over anti/proshipper stuff (I wasn’t paying too much attention because I didn’t know what those words meant tbh) on some video that had a brief aside about it. I can only imagine what an entire video would do.

I will admit, I felt a little bit deflated when I found my fortnite win was probably against a lot of bots.... but I’ll never truly know! Maybe I DID beat all those people. And isn’t that what’s important?

little nitpick (though potentially bigger implications?): If it’s being built in UE wouldn’t it be a remake? Especially when you consider that they’re going to be making some new assets.

I have to give MS credit. Every modern game console eventually has a pretty simple softmod - except the xbox 360. I remember as a teen enjoying my modded ps3 and wii (modding the wii adds SO much) thinking it was only a matter of time.Not so much. idk much about 360 homebrew but I imagine it’s a pretty dead scene now.

yeah. It’s so cool that even DIY portable consoles have managed to remove so much bulk. I think his was designed as a laptop. Also I just looked up his twitter and he’s a bit weird about the vaccine

Reminds me of the old Benheck days. Remember him?

I agree with you on a moral level. I think the right thing to do is to boycott acti-blizzard properties. That said, boycotts for massive corporations don’t really work. It’s like Nestle where they have their fingers in so many pots and have so many streams of revenue. It’s easy to forget about the gaming world outside…

on the contrary, I think even a shallow understanding of “capitalism bad”, or “capitalism is the root cause even though I don’t understand why” is helpful. I don’t know how old you are, but people didn’t really talk like that 15 years ago. Loads of people grew up to have completely idiotic and nonsensical political…

I know it’s cool to love whatever the most recent Zelda re-release is, but I’m still lukewarm on this game.

Some people in the comments seem to think this is the fault of an individual employee and not the fault of the company.

my hope with Activision’s anti-union effort is that it’s a purely digital workplace. In theory this would mean that developers are all “plugged in” enough to see that the company is going to such lengths to stop them unionizing. Hopefully it’ll create some anger or sense of solidarity.

I don’t mind kicking players for being idle. Like Ash says in the article, it’s not out of the ordinary for MMOs. I do wish that they were maybe a little less strict with the 30 minutes of idle time. It’s very easy to be gone for a half hour - maybe you went to grab food but were going to pick right back up after.

I’ve experienced both sides of the “git good” argument. I love me some masocore platformers, and the entire genre is based around dying over and over again in order to learn the screen. On the other hand, I really like Souls games but I’m completely unable to wrap my head around the genre. It’s been years and I’ve…

I no-life’d FF14 sometime last year (ironically it was before I lost my job because of the pandemic). I did the free trial and then bought into Shadowbringers which gave me an extra 30 days of playtime. Didn’t pay a cent in subscription fees and got 300+ hours of playtime. I had an absolute blast with the gameplay and…

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Gotta be honest. As an avid PSO2 player, I.... probably wouldn’t have noticed this if I didn’t read it. I just kinda... mash through unimportant npc dialogue

I can’t speak for sales as a whole, but being in middle school when the DS was popular... Call of Duty 4 was exploding, every kid had a DS and was playing the metroid prime hunters multiplayer demo it came with. CoD but portable must have seemed like butter on bread.

I’ve never been huge on CRPGS, but I’m glad that indie and smaller studios have revived this style of game. It’s one of the few areas in game design where writers are truly the kings of the design. Games like Last of Us may hold their writing to be extremely important, but the writing still takes a backseat to the…

Suck a strange shift that nobody really talks about with nintendo. I remember when the wii was coming out. Nintendo was very proud and vocal about the fact that it CAME with a youtube app. A whole button right there for you to watch youtube on your wii. There were interviews in nintendo power discussing the…