This is not a bad piece, but I wonder if it’s really worth looking this deep into a game with writing shallower than a kiddy pool. They don’t deserve this kind of credit or effort.

I think it’s because of how many teams & rounds there are now. It used to be that you had two teams in the playoffs. Then four. Then eight. Now you have ten. Instead of the champions playing to be super champion, you have teams competing to be Champion.

Cool engine trailer. Can’t wait for the one they make for the game.

Two problems with this:

This is said often, but it’s more of a (cliched) correlation != causation thing. Jobs died right as smartphones were about to hit maturity, and it is close to impossible to introduce a new product as world changing and popular as the iPhone. A smartphone is a product that is a vital communication device that everyone…

I will take Luda’s side here without much info: movie studios often cook the books enough that they claim movies like Star Wars (STAR WARS!!) has lost money. This enables them to pay for other movies using another’s astronomical budget, as well as getting out of paying actors their rightful royalties.