I remember being really impressed with some of Corridor’s early videos. Shame to see them go this route for such cheap pops from...themselves, it seems like.

I wasn’t too interested in the Mario ones because of their wonky figures, got a little closer to buying with the Sonic ones (they made great gifts for the tykes), but these and those rumoured-I-think-were-they-confirmed-? Zelda sets are probably going to sucker me in.

Hey cool, I love the little teleporter puck in Unreal Tournament. Not sure why they gave it to her, but it’s not like this game has any identity of its own left anyway.

“I will be straight to the point. It is not sustainable for GameStop to operate a money losing business. The mission is to operate hyper efficiently and profitably.”

Some part of me wants to see the bizarre discourse we’d get around Studio Za/Um being picked for it (lawsuit still ongoing, even) since they’re likely to never touch Disco Elysium again.

Torn on this because I wouldn’t mind the opportunity to upgrade but there are things here I don’t care for, namely the idea that neither of these would have disc drives.

I appreciate the point made about how these are only saving you money if you would have bought the games/movies/etc. individually otherwise. Would I have played those Yakuza games if not on Game Pass? Ditto the other handful of longer titles I’ve made it through as a result? Maybe, maybe not. If I’d been patient, I…

Too late idiots. Any dev who can is moving to Unreal or Godot or Ren’Py and nobody with sense is waking up today and going “I think it’s a good career move to learn Unity”. Nobody has any reason to trust y’all after this.

I’m not sure I’d call the situation with XIV’s turnaround indulging a creator, though. They were forced into doing it by their largest shareholder pulling out from the company with a very pointed message of “this is causing damage to your primary brand”. When I think of indulgences, I think of Tetsuya Nomura. A man…

I had been thinking the same thing, and moreover was confused that there were singleplayer titles on this list at all when it’s paying for online multiplayer, but it makes sense to give people tastes of a lot of different things so they’ll feel more compelled to buy the games outright. That’s why it’s Dishonored 2,…

Square Enix is such a baffling company to me. They control two of the most treasured brands in the Japanese games space, have more money than God, and a legion of skilled workers, but they’ve had this air of being totally adrift for nigh-on ten years now.

I am somewhat sympathetic to the general team working on this game, Lord knows they aren’t all the ones making the stupid decisions that have tanked this game’s reputation since 2016.

You’re not wrong that lies do happen! But also you don’t need to buy a game the day it comes out. You never do. You could wait a month for the early impressions to fully come in (like how plenty of longer reviews drop after release now). You could wait a week to see if the day-one patch irons out the heavy issues that…

So hardcore they need the developers to tell them exactly where to point their guns for them.

Counterpoint - slightly - there are more resources available to learn about games ahead of purchase than perhaps any other products on the market. That isn’t to say we can’t criticize or get annoyed when those games turn out to be bad (or even just not what we expect), but they have ample opportunity to conduct one…

Often I recall that first year of Overwatch and how much fun it was. Empty calories perhaps, since there wasn’t much meaningful content to be found, but fun all the same. And there hasn’t been a moment since I took a break where I’ve felt as positively towards the game. Probably because the scum in charge of these…

Loved this for Chun, and much of the setting in general. After Bison’s death, Shadaloo is still active but being mopped up by the global military forces. The situation in Nayshall (and one of Dhalsim’s win quotes) shows that evil will always rear its head, but the sense you get is that the Street Fighter world is…

Oh Lord I wasn’t even aware that was an invention of his administration. There are things about the man to respect but what an asshole.

“It’s a ruthless strategy that betrays just how overrun Hollywood has become by executives more interested in Wall Street than the stuff their companies are making...”

The context of “I would give you legal currency for this but you won’t let me”. To use this word for emphasis: there is literally no way for me to hand the Walt Disney corporation any amount of money to fire up a server to allow Star Wars Galaxies to be played online. The cost of running such a server would be a…