it’s so funny that the argument being made here essentially boils down to “No, our company could never be as successful as Sony”, like wow, way to inspire confidence in your shareholders.

Nobody should ever be punished for  Gaming.

“people would never survive in a 2009 MW2 lobby” says gamer who proceeds to host his own custom sex offender server

I saw that purple controller on the cover page and couldn’t help but think about evangelion

My guess was that he was playing it up. The guy had some funky instruments and knew the camera was going to be on him. In the orchestra world, it’s not uncommon for percussion people to be showy because they’re the ones standing up the the audience sees. I’m guessing the flute guy had a similar instruction/idea.

is it just me or is there something eerily realistic about the math teacher? Like we all agreed that the pokemon games have below average graphics, and yet... something about her (from the face down) looks strangely realistic. It’s a little cursed looking in the context of the cartoony pokemon world.

Geez, seeing the 285 issue count makes me realize that between me and my older brother (6 year age gap) we’ve nearly got a pretty good chunk of nintendo power. He subscribed from around 5 - 90something and I was subscribed from 120 - 200something. I absolutely LOVE going back to early nintendo power. There’s something…

man I stuck up for her and now I feel like a fool :/

I hate that our unique cultural legacy has settled on “What if we were all adults who act like children????”

glad the weather channel music is getting some recognition. I’ve BEEN talking up how bizarrely good the stock music they use is ... and they’re constantly cycling in new stock music. It’s awesome.

I dunno man, it’s not like people stopped hanging out with their friends in person since the advent of the internet. I get that you can play online, but people still go to other people’s houses. Hell, people still live with their friends. That’s Halo’s bread and butter. I’m literally not exaggerating when I say that…

I think out of the big three, nintendo has the least to worry about when it comes to piracy. Is the Switch the easiest to emulate? Yes. Is the switch the easiest to jailbreak?... Also yes. That said, the Switch is cheap(ish) and also portable, those are two big selling points. You could pirate BoTW and play it on pc,…

to be fair, and not dismissing the entirely valid criticisms, I feel like Saints Row has always been the platonic ideal of a 63 metascore. They didn’t make the game that people wanted, they made the game that the series needed.

that joke is not applicable here.

This really got me thinking about what it’s like to run a game studio that gets by mostly on contract work. It sounds awful. In this case, Sega could (and it sounds like they did) completely kneecap their efforts to turn in a good product. Now everybody else sees your work and doesn’t want to hire your team because…

Generational politics are a bit of a myth. Young people skew a LITTLE bit towards democrats, but for the most part it’s about the same spread as older people.

I mean, as somebody who likes sonic games... what you just described sounds awful.

This type of sonic opinion bugs me. Sonic was never about going fast. It was a marketing gimmick. Go play the genesis sonic games and you’ll realize that the only blazing fast levels are the first 2 or 3. Yes, you can go really fast if you’re a pro, but you can also go really fast in any game if you’re a pro. Mostly…