What you’re describing is systemic racism specifically, and not interpersonal racism or racism in general. The definition of racism does not have the qualifier of ‘except for white people’ and being racist does not require power/privilege or oppressor/oppressed dynamics. I would recommend educating yourself a little…

I cannot, for the life of me, understand what on earth would lead them to cancel a Respawn Star Wars FPS. The Jedi games (licensed) have sold well, Titanfall (original) didn’t. Why would a genre they have excelled at (FPS) with a license that has sold games (Star Wars) not be a shoo-in? It’s absolutely possible it was…

Final Destination teaches us that yeah sure that could happen but death could also come for you standing in the shower. Do you want to die flying through the air at 100mph or wet and naked in the bathroom?

what point of failure? you are not actually riding the broken tracks at all you are just in a cart that is raise above the real 1-piece track.

It seems silly to not backport some or all of these changes to the other versions, but this is Rockstar, a company that still has yet to update the PC port of GTA Online to match the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S editions. This is a company that just announced a big new game, Grand Theft Auto VI, without confirming a PC…

The Intellivision released in 1979 - 44 years ago. So even assuming this hypothetical ideal journalist played it as a young child during its “heyday”, they would be at or over 50 years old. How many in that age bracket are even around or left in the volatile tech journalism field? Between that and the fact that 2/3 of…

The Panic Playdate is a niche product that knew its a niche product and people developing and releasing games for it know it’s a niche product. And it’s succeeded fairly well at being what it knows it is, rather than trying to do something it’s not and never going to be. 

There was a short time while I was playing Destiny (1) on the PS4 back then, when they had a fairly strict implementation of SBMM for the PvP modes.

Lately, the concept of SBMM has been flattened and regurgitated so much that people misunderstand its use, assuming that its detractors just want to play games where they can steamroll people.

It’s a new development in that it seems to have come back after a long absence for whatever reason. Licensed shovelware games were mostly banished to mobile, it felt like. Why are they coming back to PC and console?

Not to mention that with holiday sales hitting you are gonna be able to score it for less then full price 

The switch is conventional design?  The Wii was conventional design?

“Every time”? N64 was a pretty big success, The GameCube was a bit of a failure, the Wii was a MASSIVE success, the WiiU was a failure, the Switch was a MASSIVE success. Every handheld they’ve released has become a huge success, even if not right away.

The DS came out almost 20 years ago.

Perhaps the handheld device could also be a (knock on wood) less expensive alternative to buying a Switch 2 for folks without disposable incomes.

It IS “Classic”! 

It’s not all that weird, BR drives have required this for a while.

When Microsoft debued the Always Online Xbox one, and thr backlash made them walk it back, I hope everyone realized that was only a temporary victory. Out consoles *WILL* be always online mandated, it’s just a matter of when. Hell, our PCs basically are right now. The number of games you can install to your drive and a…

It’s so refreshing to see a developer in 2023 who actually cares about making their games fully playable on the disc without significant issues. Having a note that the day 1 patch isn’t required and only further polishes the experience is amazing.

Unless Bethesda is employing monkeys to write code, the game isn’t keeping track of non-rendered physics objects in memory. Their positions would be stored elsewhere, and be loaded when the player position or camera frustum was close enough to trigger rendering.

Any game can be optimized if it’s a priority; that’s not…