You can’t trademark a gameplay design, but you could trademark a unique element of the design. For example, a lot of recent FFG minis games have unique tools to maneuver models and the rulers have unique distance demarcations. It’s also why most of their games have unique dice sets. Those items can be trademarked or…

Let’s be fair: Sony had plenty of reason to be terrified of this happening on the PSP, and so does Nintendo.

That’s what made her so great. Think Jar Jar Binks with immediate audience closure.

I have a few similar streets in and near my home town in northern California, and I’ve also driven around San Francisco. If you notice, these streets have intersections midway up the hill but you have to stop on the grade itself before crossing or turning. For low horsepower cars and manual transmission vehicles, this…

VF5 was released on consoles with no advertisement straight to digital downloads, so unless you were constantly looking at your console webstore for games to buy you never saw it. Didn’t even know it existed until a year after it released. Mind you, I bought the PS3 in part just to get VF (console exclusive at the…

actually he might.

I can’t speak for the current ease of use, but older Unreal Engine was actually fairly easy to work with. I imagine that there will probably be quite a few decent quality indy games and student projects that could use these assets effectively.

When on assigned quests, each assigned quest has a story cutscene that will play at some point before you can complete the quest (usually to introduce the monster). You cannot be joined until this cutscene appears, and you can only be joined by players who have already seen it.

This is often after the initial 10…

Canada has some widespread issues that require a heavier duty vehicle than the Grumman. Literally widespread, it has far more sparsely habited rural area than most of the USA.

How could he have worked in White House Down? It doesn’t have a Y anywhere in the title.

The tripwire one could actually be among the easiest depending on the rules for setting them up. If they can be placed on moving objects, just strap one to a friendly aircraft and make a close pass. Or place it on top of a building or structure along a strafing route.  

Sure. If you’re going around as big bad Twitch badass doing shit for the lulz, Twitch can suspend your account.

Alternatively, if someone crosses the rules, they can avoid a nuclear option based on the context.

Sports merch is a tangible thing though and in general directly benefits teams financially or as essentially free advertising. Major League Baseball doesn’t set out a tip jar at the stadium gates. It has dedicated sponsors and other revenue streams to bring in money.

I’m rarely of the habit of questioning another person’s opinions of taste, but objectively The Witcher 3 is a better game than either of its precursors.

I rather liked the Salarian pilot and Drack was actually a fairly good character. The rest started at “boring” and got worse from there.

Oddly enough, the one thing Andromeda did right was creating the Tempest. It took the idea of the Normandy and recreated it in a more compact package that compacted all the services into a more efficient space for rapid exploration so you didn’t have to backtrack across the entire ship nearly as often. It also made…

I need to put it out there: Astera may be the worst hub world I’ve ever encountered. It’s a frustrating design mess that forces repeated backtracking without any order or reason. It is the distillation of the most obtuse and frustrating design choices in the Monster Hunter games.

Let’s imagine we’re freshly back from a…

Yeah this is BS.

The Witcher 3.