A stand-alone expansion a la Miles Morales would work really well. I know Venom has a reputation as being this edgelord favorite, but the push-and-pull between the sentient symbiote and whoever’s wearing it is always pretty fertile ground for storytelling and character work.

Ahh, that’s better. After more than a decade of surprisingly great games like Batman Arkham Asylum, Shadow of Mordor, Alien Isolation, DragonBall FighterZ, and Spider-Man PS4, it’s nice to see that the tradition of soulless, cheap-ass cash-in licensed games is still alive.

Honestly, it looks pretty funny. When everyone from Yu-Gi-Oh to Doraemon pulls this move, it’s becoming less of an homage or in-joke than the animation equivalent of the Wilhelm Scream.

I’m so disappointed that the title for this article doesn’t include “Fantasy Football.” 

Adding in a modular function probably accounts for the extra cost. True, it’s more expensive to buy a disc drive later, but it’s still better than trying to swap out your whole system if you change your mind. 

It’s almost like Overwatch’s story is a giant mishmash that even Blizzard doesn’t really care about, since it’s now the same free-to-play grindathon as a dozen other live service games, and any hope of stakes or consistency in this fictional world has long since vanished.

Yeah, even some of the amateurs are turning out convincing fakes.

I killed Astarion five minutes after he joined my party, after catching him about to turn me into an adventurer juice box. One stick, one dice roll, one dead vampire.

That’s true. But it doesn’t stop it from sucking.

We had lots of skins, heroes, and maps in the last Overwatch game.

I think whoever owns Kotaku now just let the AI writer loose after training it up on a bunch of Mad Libs. 

They have permission. Explicitly and contractually.

I remember this show from when I was a kid. It had a really cool effect where they’d project scenes from the old Disney movies onto a flat “screen” of water from one of the fountains.

If you’re a mega-fan watching all the new episodes and the movies, I’d say it’s worth it, albeit not a priority. Only 22 episodes, 20 minutes each, and lots of little things show up later in very recognizable callbacks. Technically it’s all canon, even though it’s constantly breaking a lot of the series’ rules. 

For…

As it happens I just finished watching ye olde Animated Series for the first time. It’s pretty darn good stuff by the standard of kid’s shows in the 70s, incredibly cheap animation notwithstanding. Very impressive that they got almost the whole cast back together for it, and a lot of decent writers, too.

Though it’s…

“Which Peter David probably stole from something else.”

Off the top of my head, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Time Machine, and Foundation all have examples of ancient remnants of civilizations living under newer ones.

That’s a pretty easy problem to solve. I’ve got an automatic local file backup every day and a remote backup every week for a few bucks a month.

I’d say that both Borderlands 2 and Tales from the Borderlands improve the story by a pretty huge degree, mostly just by giving the characters a bit more complexity and letting them play off one another.

If it were up to me I’d forget about the first game entirely and make Handsome Jack the villain. But this started…

“A bunch of weird loners search for a treasure in a wasteland” isn’t the worst movie pitch ever. There are certainly a lot of ways you can take it that would be good, even if you have to keep the original characters of the game in there somewhere. 

Looks like he’ll get that buzz cut back in less than a month. A pretty cheap way to learn the valuable lesson not to rely on the word of anonymous internet randos.