I feel like this comes down to both perspective and perception. I follow games a lot more closely than most people, by virtue of reading this site, listening to podcasts, following devs on Twitter, and consuming all manner of media related to games that aren’t just the games themselves. All of that stuff serves to…

I’m looking forward to this. I tend to come back to Apex a couple times a year and it always takes a while to figure out how to shoot the guns again and move in a fight when playing the BR. This seems like a more direct way to recover my game sense. Better at least than running around for 15 minutes and then dying…

I’m finishing up a second playthrough of Sekiro. I played it for the first time at release and so far I’ve been pleased to have retained a lot of the instincts that I developed (through much trial and error) back then. Nothing has taken me more than 4 or 5 tries to get past, and I’ve styled on dudes that bled me dry…

Still not sure when I’m gonna get a PS5, but this game is high on my list when I do pick one up. I hope it does well with the current install base.

Oh for sure. That’s a great way to play that game, too. I’m just saying that for me it would be a similar muscle to the one Destiny flexes.

This is why one of my biggest rules as a Destiny player is that I only need one Destiny. I’m not gonna go for the Division or even something like an Outriders or Borderlands that’s a similar concept with a less appealing texture. I’ve hitched my horse to one wagon, and that’s the only one for me. That allows me to…

I think what I actively think of as my backlog isn’t that big. Stuff that I know I want to play but haven’t gotten around to, like Kentucky Route Zero, Disco Elysium, and Obra Dinn is on there, and I just need to be better at playing those instead of playing the same things I always play when I have the opportunity to…

I’m suspicious of how sudden this feels, but maybe the signs were there and I missed them. Things have been so turbulent at ActivisionBlizzard lately I just can’t help but go “hmm.”

Seeing someone else report on Destiny has me wondering: Is Ethan on some kind of leave of absence?

Bring on the weird names, doomed women, and special boys.

I really hope they find him. Enough tragedy has befallen his family already. Darius’s son, Simon, is the rabbit who died on that United flight several years back.

I had a similar experience last fall. It was time to rebuild my PC and I knew all the new cards were coming out. But for budget reasons and just not wanting to deal with the stress of trying to snag one, I opted for a 2070 SUPER, telling myself I would resell it and upgrade in a couple years time. Fast forward a few…

“catchy-ass soundtrack” i see you, ash

Just want to say, Nathan, I appreciate you for covering this beat.

I wish Darren had picked up that best Audio award, too, but still a great haul for a great game.

Fuck Amazon

So, uh... when’s Melee?

Aaaaa it’s too soon. I’m gonna have to make some time this weekend to get in there. I never got around to finishing my Nightmare run of the first DLC, but I guess I’ll have to get back to that down the line.

I think the most explicit way my relationship with games has changed is that I have more time in the day to play them. I don’t have a commute to or from work, which means I can stay up later playing games and there is also less time between the end of the work day, eating dinner, and the beginning of nightly gaming.

I get what you’re saying, and there’s certainly something to be said for making it less cumbersome to get what you need out of a social space, but I dunno, I wouldn’t want to see the Tower go away in Destiny. It’s part of what I feel gives the game its sense of place. Running around the Tower is a grounding experience…