It's new content for both of the games. Payday is getting new heists, L4D (more likely, L4D2) is getting... something from Payday to tie it all in.

It's not a standalone game. It's a new map/heist for Payday with some L4D plot elements thrown in. Likewise, there will probably be some sort of tie-in in L4D2, like extra skins or some crap. We know more about what's happening on the Payday side than we do on the L4D side.

It's not L4D3. They are not working on L4D3. This is something made entirely by Overkill with co-operation from Valve. Don't read too much into it.

Because the studio has lost its damn mind. I used to love BioWare, but seeing every single dev that used to post on the forums and wasn't a tool bag, just a dude that loved making good games, they've all gone to other studios. Most to Obsidian.

Origins sucked, too. Seriously. Mediocre story and horrible gameplay.

I played the demo, hated the gameplay and found the lore of DA1 to be very generic and forgettable. Not to mention that the gameplay for DA1 was like shoehorning moronic MMO concepts in a SP RPG. DA1, honestly, felt fucking horrible to play. It was like Stockholm Syndrome. I wanted to like it, but every single bit of…

Mrs. Kennedy jumped up, called Ono.

They were so much better with Mike McColgan, IMO. (the founder and singer on their big debut, Do Or Die)

"I think we might burst a bubble in the gaming biz soon, it seems long overdue with how corporate is has gotten as of late."

Now, now. Surely there's enough hate to go around for all of them?

The game development world isn't as pleasant as many think. For every studio that stock free beer and has awesome cookouts, there's 10 that work their employees to the bone. Maximizing profits driven by uncaring shareholders trying to cash in as much and as quickly as possible drives upper management to treat their…

And that's okay, because they're endangered. Save The Spy Crab!

Diablo 3 is an MMO?

Yeah, when I saw that I thought it was some old Games Workshop art, too. Man, just goes to show how much Blizzard really does harp on GW's design ideals. Not that it's such a bad thing. GW's art style is badass.

"for whatever reason, I have no idea because the reasons Blizzard has given me aren't logical enough to justify it"

"It is really impressive that 1 guy made it."

Doom was made by 16 people. Quake had a bump to a total of, I believe, around 24 people, but most were temps. The core team that made Quake was still only 16 people. That includes sales and marketing, etc. This was considered to be fairly large back then, where many softhouses had only 4 or 8 people.

Reading" we don't call it teabagging, we call it victory crouches" for some reason reminds me of about 10 years ago listening to suburban white kids talking about how "we say n***a, not n***er. Totally different thing. See, saying n***a's not racist."

I really, really hope THQ stays afloat. They may not be the best out there, but they take chances and they seem to actually give a damn about their games. Right now, it seems like Ubisoft is the only other major developer willing to take risks on new IPs.

It's the lamest of Christmases, too. You don't get to actually have any of these things, and you most likely won't for months and months on end. It's like Christmas where your parents show you a catalog of stuff that you might be able to get for your b-day instead of any actual presents.