It is Terri as Shodan (she is Shodan), so at least there’s that.

This seems reasonable enough on the face of it - but the last fiasco is going to poison it with suspicion about things like how they’re going to force you up the ladder.

Yasunori Mitsuda is just the best video game composer of all time - and I know there’s a lot of excellent competition like Hitoshi Sakamoto, Inon Zur, Koji Kondo, but he just consistently nails it. And Xenogears: Creid is the single best game related soundtrack ever, though there’s a lot more competition for that.

They don’t seem to care about desktop computers enough any more to actually invest in a radical redesign.

Unfortunately they do, overwhelmingly. We who want to just buy a game for $60 are the minority freaks.

Technically it’s quite doable, and they’ve got the infrastructure. The problem as always is that Google gets bored real fast and moves on to chasing the next shiny thing.  They need to actually be committed to this to make it work, and for that to happen it’s got to be central to their ad delivery strategy (search,…

I don’t share your optimism, but you could be right and you are in the pool!

So are we betting one year or two years before Google gets bored and just shuts the whole thing down?

Unfortunately, this is also the circuit that F2P games exploit to get you to pay up money.  They give you a lot of pleasure, then they ramp up the pain, and hope to get you to pay money to relieve the pain.  Of course instead of finding it within yourself you’re finding it within your wallet.

Murdoch’s Sky News Australia was pulled off the air in NZ as well for refusing to stop showing the footage 24/7. Like Fox News and Kellyanne Conway in the US, they absolutely loved the idea of some white race patriot shooting up mosques and were running it as an inspirational video while pretending to tut tut.

And totally worth it - it’s just dumb Mad Max(ine) fun.

And totally worth it - it’s just dumb Mad Max(ine) fun.

I don’t know about freecell, but Japan definitely had Minesweeper and Qix and Breakout type games where you clear the screen to see cartoon nudity.  Right in the arcades even.

Thanks! Bought this once I found it actually had a decent single-player game (the way people were talking it sounded like a Destiny).  Will start this weekend.

The DRM problem that leads to review bombs on Steam is when the publisher adds another layer of DRM, like Denuvo, and the game’s performance completely goes to shit. Steam’s DRM is not much of a performance hit except up front.

DRM problems are ‘off topic?’  Yeah, this is aimed at boosting the review scores for badly performing games - which boosts Steam’s take too.

Well, that’s very... generic.

Wait, is this a viable single player experience even if other people just happen to show up in the world, like WoW?  If so, suddenly I might be interested.

Thanks for doing the legwork, Laura - It didn’t exactly consume my day yesterday, but I was definitely wondering ‘Who are all these assholes?’

Google’s rolling out a new game console (LOL) - seems like this is just their usual flailing around, abandoning not that old projects, and rushing towards the new shinies since they have the attention span of a gnat. I certainly wouldn’t count on ‘fewer but better’.

April, 30000 feet in the air, over the Pacific Ocean: