Ah Riot, setting the bar lowers every time they’re in PR.

It’s a quick little blanket.

Riot was valued at $366 million in 2011. It’s earned roughly $20 billion ever since being bought by the Chinese. (Forbes)

Okay Boomer.

That Bioware died over ten years ago. It’s never coming back.

Thank goodness you posted this very relevant piece for this article.

It’s a lot easier to kill someone than it is to live under blackmail. Especially someone nobody will miss.

They weren’t originally Games as a Service. PoE was a D3 competitor that was bought out by big fish once it became something and monetized. Overwatch was a Team Fortress clone that wanted to tap into the FPS renaissance that was taking place with Battle Royale games.

I would agree with you (thought I admittedly don’t know much) regarding Fortnite 2. They’re a lot more benign with the whole process as far as I can tell, and not asking for much money outside of the Battle Pass.

Hot Take: Sequels in the era of ‘Live Services’ are cashgrabs and DLC-lite designed to drum up press in order to sell word-of-mouth marketing, and has nothing to do with an actual ‘sequel’.

Here’s the thing: GOP nominees not winning the popular vote is very much in line with tradition. 

To be fair, anything with Kristen Stewart is going to be.... not good.

“Don’t call me out on the thing that I did!”

Are you high? The amount of data you need to send to make a game work as a stream absolutely matters. It’s why a 4K HD video requires a completely different output than a 420p.

Stadia isn’t able to run many demanding titles because there is only so much information you can pump through a server/modem at this stage of our internet world. Some games will have to shave off quality in order to get it to stream properly.

This. I have seen far too many streaming services come and go to want to cash in with Google Stadia.

You didn’t say it, but you directly implied it.

This is a gross misunderstanding of the term. 

If you think FDR didn’t accomplish much, I implore you to to take a closer look at a history book.

nevermind that Weighted Voting is a real thing. Wyoming has nearly 4 times the voting power per person of California - never mind the votes that effectively become wasted once a majority vote is reached.