First horror game? Lolwhut? The Atari 2600 had Haunted House from Atari; Frankenstein’s Monster from Data Age; and Alien from 20th Century Fox ... No one remembers the classics anymore.

As another lawyer (starting my own 25th year of practice ...), the carelessness with which this guy breaks privilege with his client raises a lot of flags with me about the care - or potential lack thereof - with how he may conduct the rest of his practice. 

Sure. But pardon me for doubting that a crowd of Twitch-randos “controlling” the sim via chat commands could do the same. Which was the point of my initial comment.

The game - er, “sim” - allows you to disable damage due to structural or engine over-stress. I’m sure that had to help a lot in this case.

Of course, in the real world, Tex Johnston very famously barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash-80 (prototype for the 707) over Lake Washington in 1955. No option menu cheats available for…

Depends on the aircraft and the system - some stuff is fully functional, like carb heat, fuel mixture, etc for small Cessnas; radio frequencies and transponder code controls usual function too. For larger planes with very complex control panels and systems it varies. From what I gather on the sim forums, a bunch of…

What, no love for Atari’s classic (shark) JAWS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Jaws

And the VCS/2600 game Shark Attack a/k/a Lockjaw (Shark Attack is much more common - Lockjaw is a tiny bit different graphically but super rare). 

If you haven’t already, get ready to make space for DOOM:ETERNAL. By far the best shooter I’ve played in a looong time (and I’ve been playing videogames since Pong ...).

Forget the 80's and go further back: STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, DOCTOR STRANGELOVE, FAILSAFE ...we’ve been trying with minimal success to come to grips with the prospects of humanity destroying itself since the Trinity test in July 1945.

No Man’s Sky - this game is a poster-child for “game that just keeps getting better.” Kudos to Hello Games for not giving up after the craptacular launch and early middling reviews. With every update, the dev team keeps adding more content, more gameplay options and fixes to usability complaints and request from the…

I am (was?) an “io9 Guy” before that little site got folded into and absorbed into the Greater Gizmodo Empire and lost its real center in Analee et al. I’ve kept coming back to the remaining sister sites due to writing and quality of the the curated topicality. After what went down with Deadspin today, however, I can…

I got Game Pass Ultimate at 2 months for $2 back in late July. I played 2-1/2 remastered HALO games (first time with that franchise for me since the early Aughts); GEARS OF WAR 4 and then GEARS 5; and now I’ll get a good start into THE OUTER WORLDS before renewing. Yeah, it’s been a great deal for me. The only…

I see from the comments that many folks LOOOOOVE character creation. Clearly, these folks have never played the classic pen&paper RPG TRAVELLER - in that game, character creation can take 5 minutes to maybe 30 minutes, and very regularly ends in the death of the character you just spent a chunk of time rolling up and…

+1000 for CUPHEAD. I adore that game but at >5 decades on this planet, my reflexes and the time I have to devote to learning a game with timing as intricate as that have decreased drastically. The “easy” difficulty in CUPHEAD doesn’t make any of the boss enemies any less of a bullet-sponge, it merely shortcuts one of…

The old Tuesday Morning Quarterback column by Gregg Easterbrook (sp?) was a proponent of eschewing the punt (and to a lesser extent, the FG) over a decade ago! Glad to see the NFL has finally caught up.

GOD! THIS GODDAMNED FIGHT!!! I’m 51 years old now and only have time to game a few hours during the week, and maybe a couple several-hour stretches on weekends if I’m lucky. My reflexes aren’t what they used to be and control schemes and controllers just keep getting more convoluted - if you play several games a year,…

I wonder what Second Amendment-loving country, exactly,  manufactures this execrable fashion disaster? 

You need more stars than I am empowered to give you, O Wise One. 

Bravo! For even older examples of Nintendo’s overly-draconian IP enforcement policies, see PRINCESS RESCUE, a homebrew recreation of Super Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600. It was (very, very briefly!) available as a pre-made cart from AtariAge but that was stamped out pretty quickly. The rom is still available if you…

It’s like the end of WESTWORLD, Season 2 ...

*Didn’t know or care who these people were before article*
*Reads article*
*Still doesn’t care*
I see the internet is still popularizing made up controversy about people famous for being famous ... Humanity is doomed.