Matchmaking is pretty much constant until you hit a boss.  So, it’s not unusual for teams to get put together one person at a time over a long stretch.

I have said it before, I will say it again.  Henry Cavill is too goddamned pretty to play Geralt.

You have to either find or already own the discs.  And yeah, it’s been forever since I’ve seen it.

For the Brainteasers section, I’d definitely put Paranoia Agent in the running. Urban legends coming to life, psychological trauma physically manifesting in the world, people being clobbered in the streets and coming away from the experience happier for it (for the most part), only Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika)…

Dammit, now I want to play this.

I’m oddly excited about this. Assuming the signature ammo drops sufficiently in the run-up to the boss encounters in the Dark Hours raid, this could give teams a significant boost when the actual boss fights occur.

When the official updates cause more havoc than any hacker has (say,the Win10 October update from last year wiping hard drives), it’s hard not to have a healthy degree of suspicion.  And Win7 does have the option in Windows Update to either download and install or just download updates.  In this case, I suspect it’s…

Sadly, they’re only shipping to the EU at this point in time.

Is it weird I’m picturing a Metroid animated series where the whole first season is with a dude pretending to be Samus Aran, only for him to meet up with the real Samus as the cliffhanger season finale?

I’m genuinely perplexed. I can understand fumbled launches. I can understand blown deadlines and miscommunications between the suits and the devs. But this is beyond baffling. Chernobyl wasn’t as bad of a meltdown as what Anthem seems to be undergoing. It’s like somebody cut the head off of a chicken, watched the…

Somewhere, the shade of Bob Hoskins is watching John Leguizamo sipping a double scotch as he watches this trailer, saying, “Looks like we dodged a bullet there, mate.” And John Leguizamo is thinking the exact same thing.

I would have liked to be a fly on the wall during the design meeting around the inventory. For all I know (and fear), it might have gone something like this:

With regards to perks in Division 2, they’re not like the perks you’d find in something like a Call of Duty game. They’re more to improve your character’s logistical capacity than their particular role. If you look at them, they’re very basic for the most part. More grenades, more armor kits, basic weapon mods,…

Funny awful story time.

Just a wild thought: is the game installed on the console’s internal hard drive or on an external drive?  I haven’t played much on the game myself, but I’m surprised by this sort of thing happening, and the hard drive seems like a good starting point.

It took a little time for me to get the hang of things with the Colossus, and even after playing, I still feel like I didn’t quite have everything down pat.  There are mods you can use to increase health (they don’t come with energy shields like the other Javelins), but I ended up playing more like an artillery piece…

It’s still something you stream.  It’s not like you’re getting the Blu-Ray or DVD.  Which means you’re really not owning it.  You “own” it only as long as your Amazon account is valid.

It’s still something you stream.  It’s not like you’re getting the Blu-Ray or DVD.  Which means you’re really not…

This isn’t exactly my first rodeo, either. The problem is that all of this is data which can be used to predict the amount of server capacity and bandwidth they need. Since you have those known quantities (X pre-orders + (X+3 slots)), it really should be simple enough to plan out. The bugs in the demo proper are a…

It would seem to me the consideration would be the money “wasted” by having excess server capacity versus the money lost by people cancelling pre-orders. VMs can be scaled down just as easily as they can be scaled up. But a bad launch, even just for a “demo,” is likely to cost them a lot more money in the long run.…

This should have been a simple math problem. Find out the number of pre-orders from retail outlets and digital platforms 48 hours before the launch window, operate on the premise there will be a surge of pre-orders of people trying to get in right before that weekend, calculate the amount of server capacity needed for…