“The game can start to get unbalanced as you begin unlocking more powers and accumulating upgrades, especially in the second half.”

I like to think it’s a little bit more than Insomniac designed the game around the PS5. Because while, yes that’s what they did. I feel that Insomniac really good with working with their partners overall. The Sony and Insomniac partnership has been decades long, but Insomniac when placed in a posistion to go work with…

Unless Bethesda is employing monkeys to write code, the game isn’t keeping track of non-rendered physics objects in memory. Their positions would be stored elsewhere, and be loaded when the player position or camera frustum was close enough to trigger rendering.

Any game can be optimized if it’s a priority; that’s not…

Insomniac’s games are always really, really well optimized so this isn’t too surprising, even Spidey MM and Remastered loaded insanely fast for open-world games. Designing from the ground up for PS5 clearly did this sequel wonders, they seem to have taken advantage of every bit of power on PS5, and that speedy SSD…

“I’m definitely disappointed in myself about it because regardless of what anyone is gonna think it’s absolutely not something I stand for or something I say in my private life ever.”

My mother used to work the night shift in the Spinal Ward of a hospital, where parapalegic and quadrapalegic patients were cared for. Every morning she would talk about how most of the patients were there because of motorcycle accidents.

100%. I fire up my PS5 a couple times a year for these big exclusives. everything else is gamepass. If PSN offered some sort of incentive for first party AAA games I might be more interested.

Gamefly is still a thing.

The problem with this is that the current company making the TCG doesn’t really understand game balance. Unlike Magic, which balances out powerful cards with high casting costs ( or self damaging, or whatever), the current gameplay of Pokemon is based on “the most powerful cards are the most rare”. If you make a deck…

I’m going to buy it and I’m going to love it, but it’s also the kind of game that makes me look across my TV to the other side where my Xbox sits and makes me grateful for Game Pass, which is the perfect place for a game like this, that I’m going to play for 15 hours, beat, and then never touch again. At least that’s…

Read all the books and cite all the economic “rules” you want, nobody cares what a thing “should have” cost if it had been adjusted for inflation all along. It wasn’t, and we just care what it cost now compared to a year ago.

The “reality” is all economic “rules” are completely made up and selectively “enforced.”

Now,…

GIRL, SAME!

It didn’t even occur to me that the Japanese Pokemon cartridges would have used the boring grey plastic, the red and blue cartridges (and the later ones) are so iconic in the west.

Weird, I just restarted Pokemon Red yesterday. Had a habit of playing through most, but not all of it. Going to defeat the Elite Four this time. Still, weird coincidence.

Still wondering what the FFB is like on wheel setups..

Beta was cool, I enjoyed playing as a Drag Queen and stealing SEGA collectors items. It is a shame, it was a cute game. It didn’t seem that pricey but I’m going to assume they cut a lot of content.

I don’t think I’m under an NDA anymore so I can say gameplay wise it was nothing new. Aesthetically it really did have…

I did “Kirby farting the universe into existence”.

You’re right, but court is theater and appearance is a big deal. A good lawyer should be doing everything they can to play into biases that help their cases and distance themselves from ones that harm. She shouldn’t be implanting the idea she’s playing games in court in the heads of those assigned to determine the…

Because as far as lawyers go, it’s a bad look. And it gives Kotaku a good excuse to malign Trump, which is always a good thing.

Because CEOs work a lot.