There was a ton of this crap. A Mercy costume that’s just a blonde woman wearing a white tank top with an orange scarf is as good as four people in incredibly accurate Pacific Rim suits? Come on. A lot of the themed Overwatch groups were awful too, barely even identifiable as the characters a few times. When your…

This list is a tacit admission by the GMG staff that Joe Pesci’s rap album is good. Thank you and goodbye.

How do you know he’s shown no true remorse? By reading four or five quoted sentences in an article? That’s a pretty flimsy basis to say he should be prevented from participating in what is essentially his job. He hasn’t fought with anyone on stage before, so why would we expect that to be a problem now?

I can’t help but feel that Risu’s comments about Layton being unable to change in the given timeframe to be absolute BS. Is she a mental health counselor? Does she have experience rehabilitating ex-cons into society or helping people with behavioral issue? It smacks of made up “um, actually, studies show...” I don’t…

you are full of it. Players are not punching opponents’ heads into the ground repeatedly with a ref less than a foot away at every single down.

Star Wars 1313 is being resurrected. Aside from KOTOR 3, I don’t know if I’ve ever wanted a piece of Star Wars so badly. Especially after Rogue One, I’m still dying to explore a part of that universe away from the moral absolutism of Light Side vs Dark Side. I wanna have my character get high on spice and work for…

This reminds me that probably my greatest gaming shame is having never gotten past the medieval jousting segment in Lego Island 2.

Lego Rock Raiders was incredible. Has there ever been another RTS that lets you assume first person control of units and play it as an FPS?

Thinking “it’s a cool skin with a cool cultural reference” is not on the same level as “I think this is disrespectful to my culture and my religion.”You don’t have any skin in the game, you have no connection to what other people are saying is a very deep and important part of their life. Essentially, you are asking…

A cowboy hat doesn’t have any religious significance to anyone. It is purely for fashion and utility. I’m pretty confident you can already tell the difference and are just being obstinate, but a better example would be someone in a metal band wearing an upside down cross. There is an element of disrespect as well as…

I also don’t feel the mixed race justification would be good enough even not considering that since Pharah’s “native” skins are a mish mash of already distinct and separate cultures that get treated as interchangeable

But people still believe in what’s represented by the Devi skin, and the symbolism in Pharah’s skins are still important to Native Americans and Canadian First Peoples, so the comparison to Zeus or Thor don’t pan out. Consider instead how a devout Catholic might react if a videogame character had a Jesus skin. Would…

Love the “Heyyyyyyyyy” by Carl at the beginning. What a card.

So “live service” means it’s going to be some kind of Destiny-type thing, right? I guess that could be all right. Not sure what to think about anything from Bioware after their last few.

How about Darryl Sutter? With Messier as assistant coach, obvs

How do they maintain speed while landing directly on the floor so many times? I thought doing anything but wall running, sliding or any of the fancy stuff broke your momentum. Is it because they’re going backwards?

Jason, how have you developed such an extensive network of sources in the games industry? I work at small newspaper, so when I think of developing sources it means having coffee with the mayor’s assistant or something. How do you do it when communication is primarily digital and it’s difficult to find who is who?