Sega has repeatedly denied that there’s any contract with Michael Jackson. So someone’s not telling the truth here...

I wouldn’t agree with either argument. There were allegations made, he strongly denied them. Then his employer investigated, and concluded that they couldn’t confirm anything. He certainly doesn’t deserve to be blackballed, IMO.

We need to get off the idea that 1 employees alleged and unproven domestic abuse has any bearing on this 2000 plus person project.

Completely agree. It’s one thing to think he’s a creep, it’s another to argue that he shouldn’t be allowed to earn a living.

Finally, EA gets the message and adds a bit of Underground flavor back into NFS. However:

It’s more that if the NFL makes an exception for Brown, they’d have to make one for Tom Brady and Aaron Rogers as well. It’s a slippery slope, especially if you put yourself in a position where you’re risking two high-profile QBs.

According to the official list, it’s not.

A little bit of poor wording in the article. The issue is that the helmet design is 12 years old, not the actual helmet itself. So even if someone made him a “clone” of that helmet, it still wouldn’t pass muster.

Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor Dave Meltzer’s insisted that the message being delivered on an investors’ call was “a very dirty trick” and an “[a]ttempt to portray [AEW] as an unevolved promotion behind the times, to hurt them [in] getting sponsors.”

Really well-done series. The last two Hitman entries have been, in my opinion, among the most criminally under-appreciated games this generation.

I know it’s not worth much, but my sealed copy of BurgerTime for the Intellivision is one of my prized possessions. That was my gateway game.

Are you suggesting that you don’t want to keep all your money?

Also, he’s the Roastmaster General. Everyone loves that.

On paper, this is one of the stranger pairings in recent memory.

Eckman Acres from Backyard Baseball

They prefer the term “Identical-Americans.”

My sense is that it would be easier to do this in a TRPG that’s not Dungeons & Dragons. The premise of the system is that all the characters are adventurers, so many of the design and character-creation decisions are bent toward that end. But there are plenty of systems—particularly narrative-driven ones—where Vicco…

“Name of agency must be spelled correctly.”

How many of their other posts did you read before you came to this conclusion?

Kitchens took an unexpected little detour in the middle of the discussion, to deliver a stern message to players and coaches and everyone else in the organization: he intends to fire anyone who gives anonymous quotes or leaked information to the media.