It’s an issue of perception. You think about a lot of things, but only notice when it comes up. So you’re left with the false sense that things you think about come up more often. It’s a very particular kind of sample bias.

RuneScape, where twatty British schoolkids all get their first taste of MMOs and while most grow up 1% never leave and become twatty adults.

The bigger news here is that people are Still playing runescape. The pride flag is a non-issue. Some people are just sick of the real world and all its polarizing issues making its way into their relax hobby.

To me the biggest story here is that there are RuneScape Tournaments. Thats like if someone told me NeoPets had a competitive scene which it probably does BECAUSE ITS THE INTERNET.

it’s just runescape, let the game die already

Why would you want another cow clicker game?

It was, until sites like Kotaku started telling everybody about it and now its just overpriced and understocked. :(

All brightly-colored and well-maintained and not a hive of scum and villainy? That’s not the Star Wars I know.

Yeah but it would be filled with microtransactions. “Hey! You can unlock Tatooine if you buy 100 Kyber Crystals! Or for REAL value, spend $90 on 100,000!”

Powerman 5000 is absolute garbage.

all crazy taxi had was like 2 offspring tracks lol that shit sucked

Nope. 本体 means the main item itself. 箱 means box, and is getting a B. 説明書 is the manual. The description below is barely readable, but starts with 本体, so I guess it goes on to explain what’s wrong with the Game and Watch inside (how badly scratched it is, etc).

So Steam shut down 173 games from a spamming publisher because, on observation, they were making Steam look like a nexus for crap.

You do realize that half of the population isn’t female, right? And that this planet does not exclusively revolve around the female gender?

Step one: Stop letting marketing people or “idea guys” like Molyneux talk about videogames at conventions and stop making access TO the places where developers talk about videogames so inaccessible to a majority of folks. If we treated “Gaming Convetions” the same way we treated anime conventions, for example, then…

Bingo. My 6 year old loves watching people play games. Cheaper than buying them for her, and easier to limit screentime. None of that “I just need to finish this mission/match/find a save point” crap.

Answer: For the same reason you watch strangers play football, watch strangers play basketball, and watch strangers pretend to be other people in movies and sitcoms. Because it is entertaining.

Okay so ... Massive spoilers for Prince of Persia movie but ...

Sorry but I think these represent two entirely different types of “video game movies.” One type that uses video games as a plot device, for example TRON, and another a movie that tries to follow the video games plot, however loosely, such as Mortal Kombat; these are the ones that are generally considered to be bad. Of…

The sad truth is that I think only two of the movies on that list do not require you to defend your opinion (Wreck-it-Ralph and Summer Wars).