“why people loved Overwatch to begin with”

Hematomas are also clearly linked to smoking - both able to be caused by it, and almost always being made much worse by it.

Even though when you get older and see loved ones and those you were fans of pass, it’s still hard to take when you hear of it. I’ll be 62 in a couple of weeks, and it’s still hard.

So let me get this straight: they just had Hogwarts Legacy, a best-selling game of 2023 that’s single-player with no microtransactions and no live-service component to it, and Suicide Squad which is a GaaS disaster (in a successful Arkham series that was single-player up to this point) that went as low as 250 players…

Its important to remember that back in the PSX era, multiple discs didn’t represent “plot” or “content”, but rather storage for lots of FMV cutscenes. The final sections of the game needed a lot of space for video of it’s climactic scenes and the ending. In reality, without FMV, the entire game easily fits on one…

I’ve re-watched S1 several times in the last ten years, and it’s still my favorite miniseries of all time. I have not re-watched any of the subsequent seasons, nor will I ever re-watch S4. They are just not the same quality of writing, acting, directing, or production. I don’t care who is at the helm, or what sex they…

waiting for thirty seconds while Cloud sloooowly inches through a tight gap in the level

That’s not even the worst part. I’m convinced the writers have some kind of black mail over Sony. Let’s take a look at their entire filmography, shall we?

Yeah the takeaway from this is NOT that single player games are in trouble. There were lots of other potential reasons (aside from quality) why this failed:

I believe that Kotaku can and should write about “nerd” culture, and that includes really cool movies. 

“Now, youngsters right out of school, in their garage, can actually make games without learning Assembly, like Richard Garriot [the creator of the Ultima series] had to.” — Warren Spector

I’m continuously reminded of how out of touch I am with pop culture these days. This is the first I’ve heard of special popcorn buckets for movies.

“its a beautifully rendered fever dream, an lsd trip with a physical disc.”

I got a great severance package when IBM laid me off in 2010 - six months of salary following 30 days to find a different job internally (which almost never happened, hiring managers were discouraged from hiring people who’d been RA’d).

Yeah I work for a fortune 500 company. Contract workers cost a ton of money, but they are used to make cuts like this - which instantly boosts reporting cash to shareholders. It is a horrible model and is 100% smoke and mirrors. Over-pay good workers, dont give them benefits, cut them when you need cash on some…

Exactly.

The question that people need to ask is, “Okay, if you put Margot in, who do you take out?” Looking at the nominations, the immediate two names are Annette Benning and Sandra Huller. Mulligan, Stone, and Gladstone are too good in their respective roles (and I think Gladstone is a lock), while Nyad and Anatomy…

The real snub here

Almost goes without saying, right?

my only disappointment with the Sonic 3 & K part of Sonic Origins is that Icecap music is crap now.

I can live with Launch and Carnival being swapped out, but Ice Cap was life.

Ice Cap had nothing to do with Michael Jackson. It’s literally a Genesis remix of the song “Hard Times” by Brad Buxer’s old band, The Jetzons. The song was recorded in the early 80s but wasn’t released until 2008, when it became very obvious that it was reused for Sonic 3.