I know these financial reports typically focus on a single calendar year, but I’d be really curious to know how last year’s blunderbuss release strategy of every secondary title they had in development affected their financial situation as well, as it seemed like most of those titles lacked necessary marketing…

“Let’s put all our eggs in one basket!” -Square Enix

Gaming culture’s fascinating. It’s like the perfect consumer culture, because the guys within it don’t believe they’re consumers, and few can make their own cultural capital so they have to buy things that - they think - will make it cool. They need to pre-order every Ultra-Special Limited Edition With Collectible…

More than halfway through the clip, you can also hear another demonstrator yelling, “Vote for Ron Desantis!”

If a game doesn’t really get going until around 50 hours once the main quest is done, then shouldn’t the main quest be better?

“Man that was an awesome mission. Let’s tackle the next one before I go to bed.”

I know animation isn’t for everyone, but Rebels was truly some of the best Star Wars content that’s ever been released to TV/film. Ahsoka, in particular, is one of my all time favorite characters. As a 40 year old hard core fan of the original trilogy and 90s era EU who has decidedly not been a fan of much of Disney’s…

To be fair, it can actually be difficult to even find non-IPAs at your local liquor store. Or at least, at mine. Around here (southern wisconsin) beer has become a lot less seasonal and a lot more HOPSLAMMOUTHFUCKER IMPERIAL OVERLOAD all the time. A client I used to work with who actually grew hops for breweries even…

This may be a bit of a hot take, but the craft beer industry has only themselves to blame.

Your comment has 11 stars currently and yet is somehow still underrrated.

They found what looked like a tape backup, but it turned out to be Laserbeak in disguise. (He was part of a deep cover mission to make Starscream look like an idiot...)

I would say changing the combat system with each game is specifically Final Fantasy. The thing that defines the series to me, as a fan since FF1, is the mix of sweeping change with each game (different world, story, characters, combat/job/class/equipment systems) with familiar motifs (music, Chocobos and Moogles,…

Can I just say?

Yoko Taro has helmed three different mobile gacha games already, fwiw. SinoAlice, NieR Reincarnation, and 404 Game Re:Set.

I have seen the same indent in a lot of people’s heads, who are not gamers and do not regularly wear headsets. I have a similar indent myself, even though I mostly game with speakers. I think it is just a natural formation in many people’s skulls, and most people’s headsets fit most comfortably in that groove. 

Or anyone that wears glasses

my hearing will suddenly fade like a low pass filter was turned on or like I’m under water, and then I’ll get a high EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

GET IN THE FUCKING FRANKENMECHA, SHINJI

I can’t believe this is the end result of the Instrumentality Project

Alton Brown’s talked about this, from a slightly different perspective. Basically, he says that when he was a consumer of non-sugar sweeteners (Diet Coke), he felt that it would essentially dull his taste buds to sweet, so that if he ate something with actual sugar it would take more to get the satisfaction than after…