I think we’re giving Ubisoft too much credit here with laying the blame on the console. Isn’t it possible that Ubi’s engine for Assassin’s Creed is just terrible at optimization?

“the majority of the writing is pretty piss, and revolves around there being a bunch of other characters who do the exact same things as the dudes in FF7 but more boring”

Yes, but also consider that in 2007, we’d never seen a handheld game with those kinds of production values, or relative “importance” to a franchise co…

Almost without fail you see someone presenting this particular strawman BS argument in these types of discussions. You’re trying to make an apple out of an orange here, but Nintendo is not an individual, and this data is not personal information about any individual. It’s simply company records of obsolete products no…

Frankly, we need laws that protect this kind of “disclosure” in the modern digital world it’s way, way too easy for media to become lost, and that hurts all of us as a society.

Imagine, for example, trying to show your kids the entertainment of your youth. My dad could show me movies he watched as a kid, and I could…

Games like Doom and Quake, while classics that already had established modding scenes would likely be nowhere near as popular or accessible today if their source code hadn’t been released. I feel like most games and consoles, once they get past the time where they’re massively profitable (i.e., they’re no longer…

Understand your point and glad your friend’s little girl was able to get her Switch.

And it might have been the phrase

“...was forced to pay $550 to get a Switch.”

that triggered the negative response. You friend, obviously, wasn’t forced to do any such thing. Your friend was super fortunate to have $550 extra dollars…

Maybe that would have been a good time for that girl to learn that you dont always get what you want. This is something a lot of people will need to learn for the future.

I don’t get why this article is skirting around the fact that Riot is owned by Tencent and the fact that China has strict censorship rules which likely heavily influenced this decision. Is anyone really buying that removing small puffs of blood in a game about characters shooting each other is really about making it…

True, but it closed the story loop perfectly. Ichigo got his powers because of Aizen, Ichigo loses his powers because of Aizen, then everything goes back to the way it was before Rukia appeared.

We just had a shut down order in the state just last night.  I guess when faced with that actual reality and the order as it reads they weren’t willing to fight the government and public opinion at once on this one.

the balls on ubisoft for playing the paid expansion card on the same day as the “we’re sorry, this game was so fucked up now let’s make it good” patch. 

Except that it was stated that we would be able to play all PS4 and PSVR title on the PS5, and this really makes it seem like they are already working on creating an “out” for when not every game is available.

Well, sure. People shouldn’t be surprised or angry about this. But we should, in fact, be surprised about how crazy impressive is Xbox SeX’s BC. Comparing both next-gen consoles, BC is an obvious and objective win for Microsoft.

Nintendo and Bethesda have really dropped the ball. They should have broken the street date/released the games digitally already. 

Despite GameStop’s outward messaging, internal documents provided to Kotaku by a current employee show that the company is less than prepared for this pandemic

If PS4 can’t play XB and XB can’t play PS4, there is still no difference. Console-preferred gamers are the only ones buying many third party games on console. PC gamers only get the exclusives so there is no extra sotware revenue just because someone else bought a PS4. The gamers that prefer console aren’t going to…

I would 100% buy PS Exclusives if they were released on PC, but I will not be buying a PS to play them.

Sony fanboys who were mocking the idea of first party titles on PC as they perceive it diminishes the value of their precious plastic box

But they gain and expand the software sales, which is a much bigger chunk of profit than hardware. 

Getting cloth to flow in CGI is just as difficult now as it was back in the early-00's. There’s a reason why even modern CGI films often don’t have capes or long trenchcoats, and why women in CG cartoon series rarely wear dresses. They made a joke about it, but the reason The Incredibles don’t have capes isn’t because…