This is absurd. NES games are Nintendo games, sure, but when people asked for classic games, they meant more than just those released on its first console. It’s infuriating that Nintendo has asked us time and time again to cough up the dough to play these games and still hasn’t modernized or standardized how they…

Speaking from a technical perspective, a delay at this point would likely be more of a “recall.” I believe the physical discs have started being manufactured. That means all those packages that have been finalized will need to be repackaged with new discs. I don’t know that this has ever been done, and there would…

This should finally shut up all those fans who were clamoring to play Super Mario as a disembodied floating hand.

Why should we have faith? If anything their track record is full of boneheaded decisions like not using gamer tags for years, how they marketed the Wii U, weird one-off peripherals, stopping the manufacture of NES and SNES Classic. They do everything in a baffling, roundabout way. For every cool idea like the Switch,…

There actually are some games where this is a category. FFXII has a category where you have to get a certain rank that literally requires you to battle at least one of every type of monster. The fastest time right now is 23h+. In those kinds of runs, it’s usually less about optimization and more about endurance. It’s…

“Hey, if we didn’t design our games to be boring grinds so that you would spend money to skip actually playing them, then we wouldn’t be able to parcel off the games’ content accross multiple editions so that you can get the whole experience for the low, low price of $80. Also we need the revenue from the product…

One time I got “[Celebrity whose name I can’t remember]” and “cancer (disease).” I was like “Hmm... I wonder if this dude died of cancer,” and sure enough he did. It was one satisfying jump, though kind of macabre.

I noticed that my love of Hollow Knight tends to fluctuate with how difficult it is. I never thought it got too easy, but at the beginning it was really hard because I had so few tools and I was still learning. Then it became wonderful as it challenged me relentlessly but I always felt I could tackle the challenge.…

Watch Dogs was also an issue of tone shifting from trailer to gameplay. The trailer felt genuinely fresh and subversive. The actual game was fine but it was derivative as hell.

The level of adulation for Steam is baffling at this point. It’s not a good platform by any measure. I don’t know what Bethesda is planning at this point but I couldn’t give a shit if every future release by them avoids the Steam toll-road.

That being said, publishers angling themselves to control their own DRM and…

To a certain extent, any game could be said to be inferior to what we envision in our collective imagination. I think the best way to combat these kinds of inflated expectations is for developers and fans alike to be cautious and realistic.

Just speaking to the stigma surrounding gaming, I told my psychiatrist that I was stressed out because I had no time to play my games (among other forms of self-care) and she said “I think that’s a good thing.” No, it’s not; you would not be telling me it’s fine to be so overloaded that I miss other things I enjoy…

Yes, technically, if this case made it that far. But their code would be kept under wraps, there’s no point where they’d have to share it with anyone other than the arbitrators and even then, probably only in chunks they think make their case. But really the winning strategy is to keep this from ever getting to court…

I don’t think that realistic games need to lack an original art style. There are plenty of stylized games that are realistic. I think the issue is that PUBG started in very functional terms: the game was about its mechanics more than anything. Now that they’re hugely popular, they’re too far gone to consider an…

This is very un-Zen of me, but corporations have reduced a word denoting a complex dialectical philosophy and system of praxis into cool bamboo shit and, like, a really “chill” atmosphere.

Part of me would like to imagine that Poehler regrets the fact that P&R (which I mostly loved) almost entirely depicted a white, liberal fantasy world and that she has since become radicalized.

Your comment is absurd. We already have two experts in this article who assure you that this is the cheaper, easier option. If contracting and sub-contracting in these instances is not about increased profit, then why are they doing it?

I think you mean free markets and meeting people’s basic needs don’t mix very well.

I think the worry is that this trend will quickly become unwieldy and there will be a number of boring retreads on offer. Like with “crafting” games or rhythm games or, hell, even platformers in the 90s. There’s really not much to do about this since corporations gonna corporate, but it would be nice to imagine a…

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