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.

Like it was weird when they announced Brolin as Thanos, then used him as a tease for Infinity War/Endgame for 4 years before he had any real dialogue? Or Stallone, Ving Rhames, Michelle Yeoh, and Michael Rosenbaum as the OG Guardians in Guardians 2 to set up a planned spin-off that isn’t happening? Or when they cast…

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?

What’s your point? A speaking role doesn’t mean a big or important role.

They didn’t cast Thanos till they needed him to speak

Just because Galactus shows up doesn’t mean he’s going to be THE villain of the picture. If they establish him early, they can tease out future appearances, like they did with Thanos.

Who is to say that Galactus would be the focus of the movie?   Perhaps he is merely being introduced.  

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

I don’t like it when Hawkeye does it either.  Either give the new characters a new name to go by or (my preferred choice as a long-time comic reader) retire the old character and have the new character take the mantle.

Dunno, feels bad for Miles to essentially be demoted. I hated it when Gwen went from being Spider-Woman to Ghost-Spider.

It’s going to blow up in their faces. For every theatrical hit there are 10 misses or subpar productions. That audience just isn’t there outside of large tentpoles or things that really succeed by word of mouth any longer.

The problem, I think, is that theatrical films—even doomed ones like Blue Beetle—somehow need massive marketing campaigns

They really need to adjust the tax code so that in order to claim writeoffs on completed work, you have to release that work to the public domain.

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

a) this is a different continuity, so usually this shit that is common in the regular continuity wont be at play here
b) jonathan hickman is an excellent writer and is not a hack and mostly avoids the usual shitty tropes associated with mainstream superhero comics
c) you should probably do some research beforehand about…

I’m pretty sure the whole point of setting the comic in an alternate universe is so they don’t need to do status quo-preserving stunts like that. And that sort of cheap tragedy isn’t really Hickman’s style anyway.

I don't think they did anything like that with the Renew Your Vows continuity. They just stopped publishing the book.