TBH “Lord” Palkia looks way better than Lord Dialga. Palkia looks distinctly different and more horsey, while Dialga just looks like someone inflated its legs lol

The most upsetting thing here is how this will just accelerate further buyouts. And IMO it’s way worse than all of those media company buy outs, because it’s relatively easy for your average consumer to hop between streaming services, so there isn’t much lock-in. Video game consumers are going to lose SO much more…

I think most of Microsoft’s purchases were about the long game and weren’t intended to bear fruit for another 3-5 years. AAA games take a long freaking time to develop, and that’s before you even look at studios like Bethesda. Microsoft was well-aware. If anything, these purchases suggest that they understand what…

Between this and the Unsighted review, it seems like Renata enjoys throwing shade at games that are supposed to be the "heir apparent" lol

It gets worse and worse.

This is the worst part. I read the announcement, and after my initial ambivalence I was excited that Kotick might be out. After hearing they were keeping him around... Well, Tyra said it best:

It’s wild to me that people willingly play third person action games with digital (IE, keyboard) movement controls

“PC is the ultimate videogame unifier,” they say after playing it on an incredibly expensive gaming PC

It’s worth noting that in the gaming industry, tons of positions are terminated when a studio/publisher is between games. Most of those are contracted positions, but it happens fairly often to full time employees as well. And likewise, many positions only open up when a developer is past a certain point in a game’s…

“If you’re asking what Summer Wars 2 is, well, it’s this movie, Belle,” replied Hosoda. “Summer Wars is really Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! 2, and so, Belle is Summer Wars 2.”

That’s crazy. I mean, he’s far from the first games journalist to go into game development/publishing/PR... but I feel like his quality of life must be way lower now than it was when he was an EIC lol

Man, “global director of integrated communications for shooters and Star Wars" is a WILD position title lol

How does your neighborhood handle recycling? 

Source?

Does the California law say you can’t use bags?

omg Hestia! I totally forgot about that role!

I fucking love Renata haha

I got a refurbished Kishi for $25 on Ebay a few weeks ago, and I LOVE it!

It’s an underrated feature! So many games expose all the mechanics at the beginning (including the tutorial), far before the broader game actually asks you to use those mechanics... And then by the time you need to use the mechanic, you’ve forgotten how the mechanic works lol

Yeah, I think immortals got a bit of a bum rap. It was BotW by way of AC, like you said, and had a lot of the same magic (albeit with a lot of worse stuff in between). The dungeon design was spectacular, and the combat was tons of fun.