I graduated HS in 2006; everyone had a cell phone, but they were all pretty much garbage bricks and almost no one had internet. It actually kinda blows my mind to think about how rapidly cell phone tech has advanced in the last decade.

I thought it was a Community reference. Which is more deserving of praise.

Thank you for your excellent analysis and actual deference toward some the people who slogged to make this happen. THIS is what game journalism could/should be, not a laundry list of graphics/sound/gameplay, but a keen eye to observe even a bad game as an important cultural artifact.

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holy s**t, remember when people used to invade Beatles’ homes or novelists or even scientists?

“This morning as part of a quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft put out a slideshow full of interesting nuggets for anyone who’s curious about the future of video games.”

I have played 40 hours AC origins and that game spit out so much gear at you that I don’t really see why anyone would pay for more.

OW is a major player that kicked the loot-box method into mainstream/overdrive. Not exactly sure I would call that “the right way”.

Yes it does. And to their point GTAV is the bes example of how successful this type of games as service idea can be.

NBA 2K comes out every year!

Gamers everywhere will now be furious that these companies are businesses and act accordingly.

You’re right that no one is surprised it’s more profitable, but it’s pretty interesting to see some actual figures.

They also released a study concluding that if you read this article and then immediately toss out their data to insist that, no, actually you stream new music all the time because you are a very knowledgeable music person, you are missing the point entirely to be insufferable.

a technicality saved him this time around

Not a delay? YOU’RE OFF THE HOOK FOR THIS ONE, SCHREIER.

Nah, I think Asuka beats Bliss and then it’s Rousey and Flair. That’s the match anyone really wants to see. They were considering a Four Horsewomen angle at first, which would lead to this one day, but I guess they think Ronda’s ready to go.

Smooth.

A YouTube video with nearly 900,000 views titled “Why Anthem Should Scare You | Has EA Destroyed Bioware?” just miiiight be the type of thing that the second-to-last paragraph of this article is talking about.

Serious question: Going by the bands you listed, and the average age of fans of said bands, how do you not already have a couple of teenagers to drive you insane? Most of us are already sending the first wave off to college.

When I become a dad, dad rock will be things like Tool, Nine Inch Nails, RATM, KORN, Third Eye Blind (hell yeah), Deftones, not that bullshit glamour “metal”. I will drive them to kindergarten every morning and they’re going to be so goddamn amped up from the music that they’ll punch a fucking hole through their…