In 2018, it had been almost a decade since I had watched any anime and I was considering trying to see what I might be missing. Kotaku ran a roundup of hot new anime to watch. The only one that jumped out at me among a pile of slice-of-life shows was Darling in the FRANXX. I’ve seen EVA and Gundam. Big robots are…

I figured Vaan was just supposed to be an everyman audience surrogate caught up in international political intrigue and we get to experience it through his perspective.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I really like it when they swing for the fences with Final Fantasy. FFXII is one of those games. It isn’t perfect and lots of folks bounced off it. But it blew away my expectations like few FF have. It was incredibly ambitious and imo it has some of the best world building they’ve ever…

The fees and shipping are the real killers. Assuming you sell the N64 for $850, you’re gonna end up paying almost $150 in fees and shipping costs. Sometimes trading stuff in is actually the better value (or near enough the time/hassle saved is worth it).

I used to sell some MTG cards on eBay, but I realized I was…

even though what they actually want is to play a tabletop RPG with friends

Honestly, it’s why the non-service/competitive games I play are almost all indie. What they lack in photorealism, they compensate for in art direction. Plus their budgets/scope are such that they can afford to take the creative risks those big studios can’t. At least on PC, the indie space is where it’s at. Heck,…

Preorders are usually dumb, but for these limited release products, it makes sense. You could even do produce-to-order like WotC does with Magic the Gathering Secret Lair products. Folks have like a month or w/e to pre-order, Square-Enix can use that as a basic for their order volume, plus some extra if they want more…

I guess we’ll know for sure tomorrow when the embargo lifts, but the leaks suggest 200W max load (not including transient spikes)

How bout it. Secondary market or open box pricing really lays bare how bad a deal gen-over-gen these new RTX cards can be. Price-per-frame is at best even with last gen and often worse. But the deals on lightly used last gen hardware are pretty significant.

The 4070 is definitely a higher-end product with better native rendering performance, RT performance, more stable drivers and more value-add features, but with a much higher price tag. The top-spec Intel Arc A770 16gb is $350 like the RTX 3060, but with performance somewhere between the 3060 and the 3060ti. Intel Arc…

Your next upgrade should be a monitor, friend. Obviously, you do you, but those higher end GPU’s, including the 4070ti, lose a lot of value at 1080p. The 4070ti is only like 15% faster at 1080p than a 3080 for 25% more money. The difference at 1440p is more pronounced.

Everything I’ve read suggests they’re no more likely to crap out on you than a used gaming card. Maybe less so as they’re often undervolted to reduce energy costs. If you buy a card, it works and has the expected level of performance, you should be ok (afaik)

As much as Nvidia might want everyone to use DLSS 3 (Frame Generation) in it’s comparisons, they really shouldn’t. Unlike DLSS 2 where you’re rendering each frame at a lower resolution and upscaling it, DLSS 3 is adding ‘framerate’ via entirely AI generated frames. This works best when you already have a playable…

Just like the last time, it’s probably gonna just be all State of Play/Nintendo Direct/Etc, The Game Awards, and PAX. It’d probably help to space out the hype too. E3 was such an overwhelming news dump

Exactly backwards. The way you disincentivize car travel is by ensuring it’s not the most efficient way to get somewhere. Dedicated bus lanes and protected bike lanes with signal priority, robust train/light rail infrastructure that actually prioritizes passenger rail over freight; those are the kinds of changes metro…

Like others have suggested, the fight’s on a 2-4 minute timer, you just need to survive. Running away is good, barricading doors can buy you time, shooting the chainsaw guy can slow him down as he’s the biggest threat and killing villagers can give you some space. It’s still tense, but knowing you don’t have to ‘win’…

that all makes so much more sense! i blame brain worms. i honestly figured they called it Unreal Tournament 3 because UT 2003 was like a false start and we all just collectively agreed to ignore it. they were released only like 16 months apart and that was even after a 5 month delay!

Source 2 is getting kinda long in…

Definitely some uncanny valley with the lips and mouth, but that’s only because of how impressive it all is. It feels like her mouth stays open wider at rest than one would expect, like in between phrases. The mouth is open, lips working like she’s enunciating and projecting, but Senua’s at rest and a half whisper.

Some…

it’s all logistical. it’s still easier to sell a game by highlighting the impressive graphical fidelity than by trying to convey how creatively structured your core gameplay loop is.

it’s the same thing that’s happened to the movie industry where the comedy or drama with a low 8 figure budget basically disappeared.…

Calling it CS2 feels the really odd.

It doesn’t look like more of a significant departure than their previous named updates. It’s get a graphical overhaul, a new engine, some balance changes and some mechanical changes. If that’s a sequel then why aren’t we calling it CS4 or CS5? Pretty sure Counter Strike: Condition…