Not foolish enough to try that, but definitely foolish enough to drop $100 on the gold edition just to be able to play it 3 days earlier 😉

What exactly does going Free-to-play entail here?

You think we’ll be able to keep up with the youngsters in San Junipero?

Thought the same thing at first, but if you look close on the left it casts a shadow. Guess his strap-on is in the wash.

Yeah but those are rarely if ever armed... I’m talking specifically about being able to spawn a rocket helicopter on demand. Try having that at your beck and call even in the middle of a battle and see how differently you play.

Truth. I just noticed recently while wrapping up Ghost Recon Wildlands that when a complimentary loot box drop made combat helicopter available in my “rebel vehicle delivery” option (cooldown is like 45 seconds or something absurdly low) that I was using it to skip over some brutal firefights built into story missions…

EA Access debuted in August of 2014. I included the last 3 years because the catalog was erratic the first two.

It’s an adult sneaker with a four year-old’s K-Mart shoe aesthetic.

I mean yeah, but you also kind of make it sound like they were never going to Vault it - this was going to happen eventually even if Anthem had sold 20 million copies.

As far as action games in the last 3 years goes, Anthem is on the low end.

Knew this was going to happen sooner rather than later, since Mass Effect Andromeda also went into the vault early after falling short of expectations critically and commercially - contrast that SW Battlefront II which wasn’t added until almost a full year after release.

There are, but it just doesn’t have the same draw as the old one - not sure what it is exactly, but I think it’s got something to do with the rewards and the progression being “improved”.

Same here. I was a fiend for commendations in the first game, and scraped and scraped to earn those even in otherwise new content-lean times. There’s no similar nag to pick it up again right now, but I’ll be very quick to jump back in when we get more.

My brother in law told me he plays NBA2K online with a guy who’s 33, lives with his mother in a nursing home (not sure how that works), and spends $100/month on VC. His only income is a $1,000/month VC check.

My all-time favorite is the OG Cherry Game Fuel which was co-marketed with Halo 3, Halo 4, and a couple of Call of Duty games. Can never find it in NYC.

Secretly marketing for the High Holy Days?

Ever seen a street sign that says “PED XING”? Apparently that’s meant to be understood as “Pedestrian Crossing” - which is the only other context I’ve seen “X” mean “cross”.

It’s the button that fucks me up and makes me accidentally hit square on an onscreen prompt instead because I forget that I’m playing my PS4 and not my Xbox One.

That...

Twenty years after seeing The Blair Witch Project, one question still haunts me to this day: