This is probably a pretty accurate take, because this whole thing feels very on brand for Red Ventures. It went from a marketing focused company that had a borderline ad agency model, to a gigantic behemoth that owns a bazillion websites you probably don’t realize, and they are all tied together, running ads for each…

What I would give for a Sonic game made by Insomniac. From Sunset Overdrive to Spider-Man, they’re great at making moving through worlds fun. Nearly 25 years since moving to 3D and Sonic still looks and feels like he’s running on ice. Maybe he’d feel less slippery if they weren’t doing that slow wind up to a full…

Is it because of WB and how terrible (and embarrassing) Space Jam 2 was that this game gets these kinds of articles and the Nickelodeon Smash clone didn’t?

Huge +1 to this. If anything, this kind of stuff gets me excited to see another spin on a thing I like. That’s how I approached Cowboy Bebop, and I enjoyed most of it. There were times where everything just clicked and that odd meandering vibe of the anime was replicated in real life and it was super cool (that scene…

It wasn’t until this comment right here that I realized you can give the marines weapons, and you’ve been able to do that since Halo 2!?! Woof. That would have made some of those legendary runs easier all those years ago.

Oh rad, I just looked up some gameplay footage and the animation is quite nice. My kids loved Brave and the Bold when they were younger, and had I known this existed, I would have picked it up to play on the Wii U (which we still have hooked up in our game room...though I could not tell you the last time anyone turned…

Yeah I remember even at the time when they released getting very annoyed with the constant radio chatter from the goons all over the city in both Arkham City and Arkham Knight.

ahh, that makes sense. It’s like they went with the exaggerated look of late 80s action figures (with more exaggeration the longer the series went on). When I played them I would use whatever bat suit made Batman look smaller, because in most of them he looked like he was being played by Dwayne Johnson. To me, Batman…

Totally forgot about this and recently went back to Arkham City because I thought I might let my oldest kid play it, and 10 minutes in I was like...oh, right. That led me back to being annoyed by the grim-dark “realistic” tone of Batman in general.

I would love a zany Batman game where none of this stuff is taken as…

I got a new gaming laptop with g-sync built in to the screen back in the fall and it was the first time I experienced it...and now it’s hard to go back. I have an older 27 inch monitor I can plug into and play games, but I honestly prefer to game on the 15 inch laptop screen because it’s so smooth.

Dang I was kind of hoping for a remaster/remake that let you play the originals and another version that let you play in the 3D (but on a 2D plane) Sonic Generations style. I loved those levels in Generations and seeing my classic chonky boy Sonic in 3D was great.

After the first ep this show was already more interesting to me than just about every single Halo game story. I’m enjoying how chief is struggling with his programming and reckoning with being a propaganda tool. Halsey seems like a very toxic motherly figure and the friction their relationship generates should be…

Lego Worlds was really fun, but there was some significant jank in it. It wasn’t quite the Minecraft killer it looked like it could be. I’d love to see Epic help them level up that concept. Honestly they could just recreate the surprisingly deep creative mode of Fortnite in a Lego game (complete with all of Epic’s…

The games for The Lego Movie, The Lego Movie 2, and Lego Worlds were all made out of Lego, and they look and run great on last gen hardware. I think it’s a design decision. Same for how they animate. These games animate Lego characters like they have knees. They bend and flex (just like all the Lego shows on Netflix),…

I remember getting this before a long family road trip, super psyched to still be able to play my gameboy when it got dark. It...didn’t work great, and it slurped batteries. But it sure looked cool to little kid me. 

Yeah the mode is fun but the challenges are terrible. People will quit a match if it’s not the weapon they need for a challenge. Then there’s also the “Stop enemy killing frenzy” challenge that just absolutely sucks and feels like you have to luck into completing it. I really hope the next season does some serious…

After 10+ hours of play I finally made it into Stormveil castle. It wasn’t long before I realized the castle is like its own open world map. It’s gigantic! After tip-toeing around for an hour, I turned on God Mode (using WeMod on PC) to explore it at my leisure and wow, I can’t believe how big this game is. I spent…

I also have a Alienware laptop with a 3080 (the M15 R6) and I was hoping I would get to avoid the problems others are facing because this thing runs everything else flawlessly. Just got done playing God of War at max settings and it never had an issue.

We’ll see after work if I can get Elden Ring running. What a…

Yeah I’m very fortunate to be able to buy it and put it down if it’s not for me. When I was younger, I would be waiting for a deep discount or sale to give it a go, and only then after watching lots of videos to make sure I would get my money’s worth. I’m willing to roll the dice on this. If anything I like being a…

Yeah I know the From Soft games have cryptic stories, none of which have hooked me, so it’s really the gameplay and atmosphere that has to hook me, and I’ve learned that with most of their games, I got maybe 20 hours in me before I fall off.

Maybe Elden Ring will be different though! Or I’ll peter out and end up using…