I would argue that it’s more complicated than that. When I’m deciding buy early access, there are 3 major factors in my calculus: 1) is it clear that that the game’s development would benefit critically from the influx of capital provided by early access, or is it being made by an established developer who is looking…

It’s the name of the original AC protagonist, which is a weird nickname to have if you call the entire franchise overrated and shitty.

Confusing nickname.

Brands don’t create things, people do. Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are two of the original creators of Fallout, which they made while working at Interplay. They’re both now at Obsidian and leading development on The Outer Worlds.

I’ve banned a lot of people in my 10+ years working video game support, so I’ll submit two stories, both from the same company:

Considering that a) a year and a half is stupidly long in internet years and b) the game’s undergone enough changes and integration that it had distanced itself some its initial gameplay rhythm? Sure, it has.

My time in RDO has been marred by griefers which, when taking into account bugs like pelts on my horse disappearing from time to time, makes my time uniformly un-enjoyable. Exchanging waves with a player and then being shot in the back a second later is funny the first time. But when they wound my horse and kill me…

He’s a pretty young dude talking on stage in front of thousands of people and countless more worldwide at one of the biggest awards shows for the medium. That’s a lot of pressure, y’know?

You can watch him in a normal interview setting with my coworker Maddy Myers here.

Did people really think one of the more anticipated movie trailers of the year would be dropped during a video game show on Twitch? Why publicly premier it to a couple thousand viewers when they can show it during a football game with millions of viewers? People are crazy and probably also a little too entitled. It’ll…

Why would they drop a movie trailer at a game award show?

SonicFox is our king right now. He is a genuinely kind and awesome guy.

From Access to Ashes, From Dust to Rust... 

I fucking love this. Fuck Valve. I’m sorry, but really not at all that sorry.

Legally speaking, it may NOT qualify as a protected dance. That’s for the court to decide, but the legal precendent is that “simple routines” and “social dance steps” are not protected.

Holy shit, great catch. It’s the exact same, the only thing they changed was the word “Kill” to “Win”.

Much like GTAO PvP it’s not balanced at all. Better weapons can give a big advantage. Particularly weapons that can one shot kill without a headshot. It sounds like the only thing that will be truly balanced is the battle royale mode since everyone is given the same weapons.

Causation, no. Correlation, yes. If there is a lot of crossover, it’s safe to say there is some relationship between the two. What, exactly, that relationship is may be a little tougher to nail down.

“It is a difficult situation to be in,” he said, “because we as moderators are not the moral arbiters of the Twitch community.”

Also worth mentioning is that RDR2 has been one of the top games for the Christmas shopping launch this past weekend.