Every time I deal with a spider I think about the copy of Plants vs Zombies that ended up stuck on Fahey’s office ceiling and wonder if it’s still there.

You’re writing to a group of people who are grieving the loss of their close friend, and at the same time trying to get on with their jobs. Of course we’re writing something, but we’re putting time and love and care into it.

as someone who is quite fond of Jesus worship and is not conservative, leave us out of your count, there are a lot of progressive Christians who want none of what conservatism is.

Oh I know, it's been years though, a large percentage of current readers probably don't know this.

“up-n-coming games journalist Jason Schreier”

You seem to have a VERY difficult time differentiating the idea of “legal” and “ethical.” It is LEGAL for people to resell keys that they get, but it is UNETHICAL for people to sell the codes that were generated for the purpose of promotion/reviews/etc. This is what makes them shady. A developer is trying to…

Think I’ve found the people who sold review codes.

No. The biggest gripe is the corporate exploitation of Black people and Black culture. Specifically, the concept that a corporation can create a digital “Black” icon—a fake non-human who doesn’t have the lived experience to be Black, who doesn’t genuinely come from or represent Black people or their culture, but is…

For those interested in what the thing is actually trying to say and can’t quite read the original document or be bothered to parse the machine translation, here’s the gist.

Consolidation is not really good from a consumer perspective, even if we as gamers view it as the potential for MS to take over and make better games and improve the work culture. Consolidation is one of the chief aspects of modern corporatism that facilitates monocultures within companies, power abuses from the top…

Monopolies are bad

*tortoise pope

I played Doom on it.

The biggest argument for forums is that if I go to Google or DDG and type in:

You absolutely can. You can also weave between robots’ legs, scratch the carpet and take cat naps.

“Quiet.”

She’s literally meant to be seen and not heard. Any more regressive than that is negative numbers.

I have always taken issue with the discourse around Quiet which always just sounded to me like slut-shaming.

Great article. I came here just after reading the Bayonetta article. Interesting how different the treatment and presentation is of these two characters (Bayo and Quiet). I’ve played a lot of Bayo and not a lot of MGS, but that dancing in the rain garbage really rubbed the wrong way. Even the camera work in Bayo, I…

Counterpoint: That’s not badly done and Koroks are well designed little buggers.