Months? No, I don’t think so. The game map is split up into individual play zones, one solar system in each. The central systems - the “Alpha Quadrant” in Star Trek terms - are policed by non-player character security forces, which can beat the crap out of even high-level players when they engage in PVP combat. But…

I find pro gaming in general distasteful and unnecessary. BUT. This is pretty awesome of Blizzard. Good for them for advancing the crazy idea that if you’re doing a full-time job, you should get a livable wage and support from your company, no matter what you’re doing.

God damn EVE is so interesting. I just wish the actual gameplay was more fun than filling out a Starfleet requisition form for self-sealing stem bolts.

Microtransactions don’t bother me. Cosmetic items don’t bother me. What bothers me is tying game extras to randomized systems that then give you the option to pay for them. That’s gambling and it’s bullshit, no matter who’s doing it.

I hate NYC, but because it’s expensive and full of assholes. You don’t have to be a redneck to dislike overcrowded cities.

I don’t have a problem with the roid rage design, I love me some stupidly ridiculous huge dudes. Stoic the Vast from How to Train Your Dragon is my favorite, he’s just a giant side of beef with a beard.

So western indie devs are embracing the Japanese dating sim genre, but only in the most ridiculous and self-aware ways. I can dig it.

Is it really “another” round if Atari isn’t Atari anymore? I seem to recall that the rights to the name and trademark have been passed around like a high school blunt.

I didn’t know Alive Peeing was a thing. I don’t install adult mods, because porn already exists.

Came here for this.

Nah, too much work to make two similar characters that are both balanced and distinct. We’ll probably see all the incarnations as skins, though.

$20 for a few minifigs and a bunch of 2x2 pillars in that Aquaman set is just an awful value. Remember when LEGOs were supposed to be toys for kids?

The purpose of infinite scrolling isn’t to load up more articles, it’s to load up the ads in those articles. That way a single click with, say, 5 ad impressions on a story can be turned into 10, 0r 15 or 20 or 25, without Gawker/Gizmodo Media having to produce five different articles that are interesting enough to…

You are intentionally misunderstanding this issue. We’re complaining about the infinite scroll format, which is a dishonest attempt to manipulate both readers and advertisers, not the advertising itself.

Add “||taboola.com^” to your list of filters to get rid of those low-rent ads.

It was already monetized with advertising on every single page. That didn’t bother me, even when it was annoying auto-playing videos - hell, almost every dollar I’ve made in the last seven years has come from advertising.

I think the reporting system wouldn’t feel quite so hopeless if you got some kind of feedback for reporting jackasses like the one described at the start of the article. A pop-up at game start saying the player you reported had been banned or muted is probably too much to hope for, but some indication that you’re not…

That’s a pretty shitty attitude to have. No one needs your permission to like something you like, no matter who they are or how much you dislike them.

Wow, that is some seriously awful box art. Looks like someone took a crappy photo of a treeline, cropped it out and filled it with rocks for some reason, dropped a blank paint splatter on top, then stuck an Xterra render from the game in the front. And the sky is a flat blue texture. Even for 2000-era games, that’s…

After that excellent South Park episode about everything wrong with mobile gaming, this licensed game better not have all the usual randomized IAP-driven kinda-sorta-gambling collection elements that these sort of RPGs tend to include.