I think that Trump became enamored of tariffs once someone explained to him that he could invoke them unilaterally.

the blame lies, in no small part, at the feet of the victim

He illegally went to an island KNOWING it was illegal and how that island operates and he could die and did it anyway.

Plus: Diablo 3 started life as a game that was fairly close to being completed by the original dev team, and when Blizzard North was shut down (and the original team all left), they completely threw out the game and started over from scratch (although eventually incorporating some elements from the first version).…

But... Blizzcon is an advertisement. It’s not any sort of performance, much less one that’s a bait-and-switch, it’s a fan-club meeting where they also show you ads of upcoming products. Which is to say, it wholly exists to promote their products. And that’s what they did. That it wasn’t what anyone expected is the…

Wohl is the Mozart of obvious, bullshit scams.

Crunch is always, 100% of the time a result of poor planning

Yeah, it’s true (as well as the internet eroding resources for actual journalists), and doubly true for games media. The way that people currently talk about Youtube gaming video makers (that they’re not journalists and thus we can’t expect any sort of journalistic practices or integrity) were exactly the sorts of…

Games media is worse than that, though, as very little journalism is even attempted in the first place (which is an improvement over “none at all,” which is what was historically true - it’s only fairly recently that the word “journalism” appeared anywhere near games writers). What little it supports is low-resource…

Well, ok. There’s two different issues there, though - we can’t expect games media to report on what’s happening internally in studios if no one is willing to talk about it, and then there’s expecting journalism from the games media. Which actually maybe isn’t so different, as I’m not sure we can reasonably expect…

But again: crunch is “common knowledge” in what sense? That it exists, somewhere? That lions exist is not news, that one is in my living room is. “Crunch” covers everything from working a few extra hours one week to 18 hour days, seven days a week, sometimes for months on end. That’s a big and highly significant…

Or the Gotham tv series - it evokes New York during the ‘80s crime peak and gritty ‘70s films, without actually being any specific time (and without actually being New York).

Wait, you thought I was outraged? That’s a strange reading of the text.

“Oh come on, journalism isn’t just listening to insiders.”

I don’t know about that.  I don’t talk about the games I’ve worked on in comment threads either, because I would be doxing myself. So I understand not wanting to say anything. At the same time, I don’t really care that no one knows the “real story” behind the games I’ve worked on, and I certainly don’t expect anyone…

For each of the five AAA games I’ve shipped, I have seen you recycle lies and call it coverage.

How does this hurt Lucasfilm? It’s a mod, you have to buy the original game to use it.

“Show a competent prototype to those that own the license (or in this case has temporary exclusive rights to it) of your favorite game. Pitch your pitch, even beg for at least a kickstarter attempt”

Probably about the same time the strike team of undead (and body-swapped) former US presidents show up on iZombie...

“Games have been increasing in price in the shadows”