While I agree with the sentiment, but I also find this kind this both pointless and disingenuous. Partly because it doesn’t really address the issue at hand. All award shows are just ways for media giants to pat themselves on the back, but ultimately they mean nothing. So who really cares if Hades won GOTY, because it…

Feels like “Best Direction” at the Game Awards is becoming the same as “Best Director” at the Oscars: it almost always just gets handed to whatever wins Best Picture/Game because people don’t put much thought into what a director actually does (or go with the logic “well the Director is in charge so best direction…

It’s good to spread information about crunch as possible so that it stops is a good thing.

“It’s my favorite show. It ran for 16 years on the BBC, they did nearly 30 episodes.”

His behavior reminds me so much of different people I’ve known with untreated personality disorders* (borderline, bipolar, narcissism) that then add alcohol to the mix. I hope he gets help.

The entire LotR trilogy is, entirely without exaggeration, far and away my favorite movies ever made.

Denis Villeneuve is an anagram of “evil elves in Dune”.

Someone who has played those characters already and wants a new character to play.

He was 97. That is a life long lived.

Thats sad but 97 is a pretty good age to go.

If I need steaks or something more than basic there is supermarket with a butcher. I ask him what is good and he has never steered me wrong.

Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another parking lot!

I was hoping against hope, because Brenda Braithwaite (maybe Romero at this point?) is a genius and one of my personal heroes. And the idea of shifting genres as you “zoomed in” sounded really cool. But it always had that weird janky look and generic art style that never bode well for overall quality.

I’ve never been to Chicago so I’ll take your word on Watch Dogs’ geography. Watch Dogs 2 butchered the Bay Area so I’m not surprised.

I’m not saying that people can’t learn and grow in terms of taste, but people seem to forget how much people loved Ready Player One when it came out, including The AV Club, which gave the book an “A.” I feel like that evolution is way more interesting as a phenomenon than talking about how good or bad the first book…

It’s definitely worth 25 bucks for the single player component!

It’s a shame too because the single player campaign story is actually good. It’s the multiplayer aspect that is dragging the game down.

I worked briefly at that mall and there was always something interesting going on involving security.

Great article, Ash. I can relate, maybe not to the same extreme, but very similar, with some games absolutely changing my life for the better (I remember the day Breath of the Wild launched - I could *feel* the change in my attitude and outlook over the next few days). Seems silly to attribute it to video games of all…

I know I’ll catch fire for saying this, but it bothers me that Thanksgiving is being celebrated on American Thanksgiving, for many of us Thanksgiving was several weeks ago. It couldn’t be that hard to arrange to have these events take place at different times depending on your region. Blah blah blah American are the…