That one is fantastic. Harmonica’s theme is utterly haunting too.

So this is meant as a good natured nitpick/factoid, but the Clint Eastwood Westerns mentioned here, mostly from the man with no name trilogy—A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—were made by Sergio Leone and shot in Europe—which is why they don’t look like the American West the…

I’ve never had much interest in the AC series and I’m not huge into Egyptian history, but that’s fucking cool as shit.

I mean, I think it’s pretty cool when a game producer has the freedom to select a platform for his game for artistic, aesthetic, or functional reasons rather than strictly mercenary business reasons.

I would like to remind everyone that Patreon has the right to decide what content is allowed on their site as they are a private business and they do not have to allow you to crowdsource your creepy fetishes if they don’t want to. Nobody’s free speech is being violated.

I will! I still maintain Soul Caibur II is the best fighting game ever made, but the HD re-release just isn’t the same without Link.

And, dare to dream, a version of Soul Calibur II HD with Link, with online multiplayer!

This.

We don’t, but we help out Azerbaijan with training, equipment, etc. to counter the Russian and Iranian presence in the Caspian, which likely explains his answer.

More likely they don’t need to know where the Caspian Sea is. Does the Navy even operate there?

Just the latest reminder that microtransactions aren’t separate from the game. They can be central to the game itself, in mechanics designed to trigger further purchases.

Sorry anyone who believes anything that Bungie says at this point deserves to be put into a patented matchmaking system designed to make you spend more money.

ANOTHER THING, Disney really screwed the pooch by giving EA Star Wars IP. That should’ve gone to more competent companies.

Oh come the fuck on.

I like story-based, linear games. Not everything has to be open-world or competitive multiplayer.

The lesson seems to be, “don’t be bought out by EA games”.

Another studio devoured by the insatiable beast of EA...

Gotta love it when a studio closing announcement is essentially a sales pitch for forthcoming work. EA has developed a real knack for dismantling talented studios and driving franchises into the ground.

“Also, the game will now pointlessly feature lifeless cooperative and competitive multiplayer as the focus, with a loosely strapped on single player mode that is really just a training sim for the multiplayer.”

Is EA on fire and burning? First Bioware Montreal, now Visceral games?