The type of customer I am these days is far less committed to the hobby in that I’m becoming less informed, less motivated to keep up with the latest hits, less major blocks of gaming time where I don’t feel like a deadbeat parent. Gamepass is built for me. It gets the hits eventually, it has good indies, classics and…

We’re having a moment right now in fantasy literature and games where the hero with the sword of light who changes the world is replaced by the beaten down anti-hero who just wants to sit in a brothel, drinking ale as the world burns. Of course there’s something to be said in literature about the value of changing the…

This is exactly my concern. Without mimicking the top-down style with pre-rendered backgrounds, modern game devs would go crazy recreating the kind of assets that’s required for the full FFVII experience. They’re going to chop up the post-Midgar journey so hard, and that’s heartbreaking. 

I think his point is that in life there are norms and customs in any group that isn’t written on paper. The Overwatch e-sport community has an expectation that players are not anonymous and legitimacy is important. There’s no rule that says she can’t play, but the obstacles she is facing to be an active competitor is…

I wouldn’t consider calling fans passionate well-meaning. It’s language gymnastics by marketing departments trying to shield their core interests without directly confronting their customers. The whole presentation on stage was pretty tone deaf, and I cringed at the announcement. Going to a hardcore gamer conference…

Ad blocker has to only be part of the problem. We don’t have access to those tools on Android TV, Apple TV, consoles, the official youtube apps for mobile. There are already reports that mobile ads have poor click-thru rates.