They still would usually need to ask for permission to create a derivative work, even if it doesn’t reproduce the work in the whole. 

I didn’t see “budget” and came here in a cold sweat hoping to justify the $170 I spent on an Elite 2 controller.

Maybe I don’t understand the particulars of streaming Apex Predator or whatever it is on Twitch, but why disconnect women in the first place? What does he gave to gain from this?

“They do not need to be pressured by massively rich people,” no, they’re just run by massively rich people looking out for their best interests.

Nintendo’s terrible stewardship over its immense cultural legacy is important. You can’t just cut off some arbitrary point where YOU don’t care about something then declare that’s the standard. I’m not saying Nintendo’s awful attitude towards preservation is a human rights issue, but if we care about gaming as an…

And presenting nothing to do outside the heist is antithetical to the open joy of a GTA game, regardless of what fans were hyping themselves up for. 

I think the companies making these games are likely by now aware that live service games frequently don’t have high initial sales and that they need to be developed over an extremely long timescale to be profitable. I’m not sure if they all went haywire when Destiny and GTA Online became money-making machines, but…

I’m not usually one of those nostalgic “Only 90s Kids Understand” people, but damn game boxes used to be so much cooler looking. I mean that Super Mario World box! (Let’s forget about the mostly uglier Western market boxes).

I think it’s something of an inconsistency that makes it feel weird. Trophies are inherently accessible and they’re pretty much universal across all sorts of games. But then some games hide platinums behind tasks that only, say, .001% of players will complete. So you have something that feels most of the time…

Why can’t people be excited about a new game from a great developer instead of being like “Oh shit, I hope it’s part of an intellectual property with which I’m already familiar. Any deviation from the licenses that Nintendo has been flogging for decades would be a disappointment."

Damn, Mixer was my fourth favorite place to watch people play games after Twitch, Youtube and spectating a Red Dead Online match I lost to somebody who called me a homophobic slur.

This is what's known in the business as a very good look.

A good example of output randomness that was jarring for the player was Fallout 3's accuracy system. It caused some bullets to miss due to a character’s gun stats. But in a first-person action game where players want to feel like they’re in control of their shots, bullets that miss for no visible reason feel unfair.…

Obviously, I’m happy about this.

This has long been an issue with VR. The feeling has been that the market needed a “killer app,” but no single game can sell what is essentially one and a half consoles (the headset and the commonly needed GPU overhaul). Granted, there’s lots of cool stuff on VR now, so maybe a great Half Life game can be a tipping…

It’s not a one-to-one comparison. For one thing, Crysis was sort of an outlier, but you could still enjoy it on a lower setting. For most, this will require a much greater investment than just an upgrade of a part. After all, you can't even play it at all without the expensive headset. In that way, it's kind of like…

Dragon Quest Builders 2 came out and didn't let you turn off the music at all; you could only turn it to low volume. Now they patched it so that you can turn it off, but the game still doesn't let you play media over the game on PS4 because it considers the whole game a "blocked scene." I hate it.

We should definitely be providing a better example for how to be “gamers” than the toxic bullshit we’ve allowed to fester for so long. And I think many people are starting to, but it’s creating a dividing line between progressive gamers and shitlords. This of course extends behind the scenes too, where power…

I suffer from depression and I absolutely understand this thought. However, this could be also a sign that if people so immensely talented struggle with their own worth, maybe when “normal schmucks” consider themselves worthless, it’s depressive negative thinking and not objective truth.

Nobody should be harassing developers. But “there are actual problems in the world” is a terrible argument that can be used to avoid any discussion of any issue. What meets the bar for an issue we can care about? Can’t we care about the implications of small issues while also caring about larger issues?

The Ooblets…