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Michael Crider
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I genuinely enjoy Rick & Morty, but I’m getting really tired of Roiland’s three voices, all with the same cadence and mannerisms. Putting them in an extended video next to the fantastic Jennifer Hale isn’t doing him any favors, either.

It’s okay man, you don’t have to be the lead(s) in absolutely every project you

Harley is a B-lister at best, everywhere she appears she’s either connected to Joker or actively trying to step out of his shadow. I think she’s only as exposed as she is because DC needs more recognizable leading women and they shoved her into an anti-hero role, which is fair enough.

But she’s been completely

Ugh. Does Harley Quinn have to be in absolutely everything DC does now?

Calling out opportunistic lawyers and endorsing a megacorp are not the same thing.

There are plenty of good reasons to sue a company. “They’re in charge of their own platform and I wish they weren’t” isn’t one of them.

This reeks of lawyers convincing someone to pick a fight with a huge corporation, playing for an off-the-books settlement, and laughing all the way to the bank.

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So many of today’s American athletes were impressionable kids when Toonami and a ton of broadcast networks were importing any anime they could in the post-Pokemon boom. It’s no surprise that the shonen stuff, almost exclusively about getting stronger and stronger and reaching your maximum potential, then blowing past

Multiplayer in the standard game would have been awkward, it’s so focused on big spaces and singular movement. But I can see how it would have been cool for some boss battles, recreate that Spiderverse/No Way Home feel, as long as all the players had something interesting to do.

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The WAAAuija board for Cultist Waluigi is inspired. Well done.

No build really does make it so much more palatable for those of us who never developed the “instantly build a giant tower and also shoot the other guy who’s building his own tower” muscle memory. Turns out there’s a ton of interesting stuff all over the map, no need to add your own cardboard versions! 

And we haven’t even touched on how the emblem is the Game Cube’s, swapping its negative-space G for a P. Or how the controller is a Dollar Store Dual Sense with the trackpad fallen off.

Given how desperate Warner Bros. is to monetize absolutely every single aspect of its nebulous cloud of IP, an officially licensed AI Patronus can only be a few years away. 

Weird that an apparently consensual affair (and a little blackmail) would rock a company that’s taken decades of employee exploitation and abuse in stride. 

“Let the grass die. Kill it, if you have to.”

I’m not a survival horror fan and I’ve never played a game in either series. But were I so inclined, I’d go for Dino Crisis every single time.

Never a good sign when developers tell players they don’t know what’s fun. 

I’m also anticipating something like this. There’s a reason that Cal Kestis looks exactly like his voice actor.

With the little droid getting a cameo in Bobe Fett and a full LEGO set — which I think is a first for an element exclusive to the video games? — EA is clearly looking to more firmly connect its little

When Ong approached PlayStation, he sold it to their VPs with: “We could beat Arkham and have one game and maybe multiple games that could drive adoption of your platform.”

Others say that EA is primarily interested in a merger arrangement that would allow Wilson to remain as chief executive of the combined company.”

Point of contention: wearing a loincloth is not “butt-naked.” To say nothing of the pot. 

Nobody ever made me pay for every single piece in Checkers, then pay rent on the spaces I occupied on the board.