It never occurs to people that those making decisions might be privy to more information than them.

What a fucking scumbag.

2017: The year when irony died.

Nick Cannon was one of the few bright spots of Up All Night, but admittedly I haven’t seen him in much else.

I think you’ve highlighted an important point that the “chasing visual fidelity is a fool’s errand” crowd fails to grasp. Higher visual fidelity means that more details can be seen on screen, and those can have conscious impacts on the gameplay experience by making crucial information easier to absorb. From a more…

NBC: We peacock The Office!

I don’t think anyone else here would have seen it, but for my money, the worst film of 2017 was BLAME! It was a boring, meandering, and inept 3D CG anime film whose only apparent purpose was to serve as an advertisement for what I’m assuming is a much better manga. I’m glad it was released to Netflix so I didn’t have…

I can confirm that they’re all over L.A. bus stops too. They made my morning commute very confusing.

If we’re talking about the year’s overlooked games, I think you should all check out Tokyo Dark, which came out this fall. It’s a modern detective noir/psychological horror game that blends elements of point-and-click adventure games, Telltale-style branching narrative adventures, and visual novels. It was published…

Honestly, it feels like Bethesda called this game Prey so as to defend their intellectual property rights. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the 2006 game of the same name.

She wrote an article about the criminal history of one of the tourists who ended up at the Oscars this year in one of Jimmy Kimmel’s bits. Commenters called it out for essentially being a loud racist dogwhistle, and the A.V. Club took the article down.

Katie Rife is really the last person who should be making racial jokes, considering her Oscars article.

On the docket for this weekend: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Without spoiling anything, Act 2 tells a very thematically different story from what people thought it was going to tell.

You’ve described most of what I disliked about Yooka-Laylee perfectly. One other thing I wanted to mention: the writing. It has almost zero wit or charm. Every joke or pun is something you can see coming a mile away. The main characters - especially Laylee - are odious little shits. I dreaded every time those assholes…

I haven’t finished A Hat in Time yet, but I’d highly recommend it. Structurally, it’s more like a cross between Super Mario Galaxy and Psychonauts than the SM64- or Rare-style platformers.

If Yoko Taro never gets to make another game, I hope he spends the rest of his days narrating increasingly bizarre and unhinged let’s plays of cute children’s games, exposing the horrors that lurk within.

I know everyone loves the cannery sequence from What Remains of Edith Finch, and I think it’s brilliant too, but I wanted to give a shout-out to the comic panel sequence, which just completely comes out of left field but perfectly captures the tropes of old horror movies and comics.

It’s a shame, because I think it’s the best immersive sim since the original Deus Ex. It has a remarkable clarity of purpose, and each of its systems fits seamlessly with the others. There’s also a thoughtfulness to its lore and level design (which complement each other beautifully) that I don’t see in a lot of other…

Imagine a cable drama for the main plot and a network comedy for the sidequests.