If that is the case, that outside company did a subpar job or that company sub-contracted it to another party who did a mediocre job.

Some of the English text in PSO is written awkwardly, like one the inital release of Ys VIII published by NIS America. Usually, the problems fall into grammatical errors or diction…

That life event of fixing her first game at eight may have indeed inspired her towards STEM education. I don’t think Linda mention how see got into engineering in the the Guiness video in this article.

When I read about how such and such person got into their job field/hobby/passion, their foray into their life’s work s…

Much of the Phantasy Star Online text makes me think that Sega had in-house localizers rather than hiring an outside localization company to smooth out the language in different regions. Some of the text just read awkwardly.

I like that Linda is an electrical engineer. It seems to combo well with understanding how these games were made and having enough knowledge to repair/maintain them.

I open up my unresponsive game controllers, and all I can do is make things worse. lol

I bet many people do not read the manual. That’s why companies like Apple spend a lot of time and money on their product design and out of the box experience.

(Apple has had some duds from an aesthetic viewpoint, but they rarely have any interaction issues like Sony has with the PS5).

Hi Robert. If I had a PS5, I would likely place it upside down to for the reason you mentioned (if I didn’t look at the user manual). If Sony is complaining that people are putting it upside down, then they didn’t test the interaction experience or out-of-the-box experience (OOBE) of their product sufficiently. That…

Alright, usability is not the right word here. Let me call it a general design fail: it seems a non-zero and notable number of people put the unit upside down, which is not what the Sony wanted. Somewhere, Sony needed to test how people would interact with the product. For example, Sony could have printed a 3D model…

Hardware usability design fail.

Thanks for the information. If that’s the case, I haven’t seen any of the single unit from either Sony or Microsoft. I have an Xbox One, so I don’t need an S, but I haven’t seen any listed at their original normal prices. I have had no luck with PS4s.

Didn’t both Sony and Microsoft announce last year that they were going to stop producing PS4 and Xbox One units to focus on their next-gen consoles?

From past generations, both companies would continue to produce the previous gen consoles while the new consoles were ramping up. By stopping PS4 and Xbox One sales to…

It just means the employee is unlikely to be living in Manhattan borough of NYC, unless the rental unit rent stabilized, that person has lots of roommates, or has other connections. (NYC has 5 boroughs. When outsiders see typical pictures of NYC or think of NYC, they are often envisioning Manhattan borough.)

For an…

I think the staff writer roles will eventually get filled, but I also believe those people will stay at Kotaku just long enough to be able to parlay the experience to work somewhere else.

I presume that the herbalist at G/O Media wants to be able exert undue influence over the staff.

May’s theme sounds like something Atlus could have written for one of their Persona games.

Hmm, why is the game soundtrack only available digitally and only if you bought the special edition of the game? Sigh.

You should probably cosplay as GG May to complete the trifecta/inception.

Interesting. I didn’t know that even that part could be mimicked.  Thanks for the insight.

Wow, there are a lot of isekais in the last two years. 

The early sealed product had plastic tabs with a hole in it on the back of the seal. You could unfold it to hang it up on a store shelf with protruding rods.  If you grew up going to KB Toys or Toy R Us in the 80s, video game boxes were hung like that. 

I just went to a site and looked at a sampling of Arita’s artwork. I like his artwork style, because it still looks hand-drawn, and the lines are clean.

In addition, his art has been used on cards that have seen tournament play, especially his contributions to the Tag Team GX cards.

Has Nintendo patched some of the previous BotW glitches?   I wonder if this would get patched out, since it is too easy to do.