Damn, I would have killed to have so many girls interested in mainstream gaming when I was in high school. All these boys are lacking vision: a shared interest is an unbeatable icebreaker. Dumbasses.

I know you almost definitely meant Satan but Stan is SO much funnier in context.

Two things...

Forget Twitch: Colbert was doing this 6 years ago with his parody Super PAC, while doing a parody of a right-wing mouthpiece.

Or you could just not read the article? Seems a lot simpler than getting angry and leaving.

What bluff? They’ve said all along that they’d include PS4 Minecraft if Sony allowed it. Rocket League says they literally just have to click a box in the server. And Fortnite actually had cross play going on accident once.

I think it’s great. Wish more companies would play nice with this kind of stuff between platforms.

Well a store clerk were not shouted at and no people destroying stores. So I think it is much better than the Szechuan sauce nonsense.

What a weird way to announce Melee HD.

The voices bit is explained in the article via a tweet, but in case it didn’t show: There was a strip of the manga years back where the characters ask that their VAs for an anime adaptation be two very specific, very famous (with a capital F) male VAs.

Not even Sony though, it’s Sony MUSIC, which is wild.

It took a total of 5 minutes... by women. I think that’s the problem right there, no women on the design team, or at least none in a position to voice concerns.

Pray for Wargroove.

That awesome moment someone on a video game blog is a better investigative journalist this half the media in the nation. Anyway, I believe he is lying(it’s obvious) but I don’t say that to be mean to him. I wonder what was his reason for doing something like this? It seems very strange. I hope this gets an update.

Haha I was commenting less on the cost and more on the delightful absurdity of the whole thing. A big figurine display to celebrate the expansion? Cool. Making them all player characters from the game? Pretty brilliant. Making them all the characters of the people attending the convention? Absolutely nuts.

Good god Blizzard, you magnificent bastards, only you would do something like this.

That’s a shame. Torchlight and its successor were amazing distillations of everything that made games like Diablo and Dungeon siege fun. I remember thinking that this was a distinct possibility for them when they went down the MOBA path.

Boo :(

Yes, this was a captivating read! Especially appreciate the fact that a complex situation was not reduced to some sensationalist soundbite. There were no corporate villains here, merely the Sisyphean challenges of developing an ambitious tentpole game in today’s market.

Another great story, Jason. A couple things really stand out to me here. First, The statement you got from Patrick Söderlund is pretty remarkable. I know there’s still corporate speak, but that was still pretty detailed and lined up with all of the rest of your reporting.