I think the best gaming gift was Christmas of 1999. Our family was never big spenders and so we were always a few years behind in terms of gaming. But that year we opened up the Jungle Green DK64 N64, and bundled in with it was Super Smash Bros. That console was on constantly for the remainder of winter break, and as…

To be fair, Witcher 3 released at a “Bethesda jank” level of glitches, where more often than not the horse ended up on a roof or something. It still ran fairly well on both consoles and PC, it looked fantastic, and it certainly wasn’t crashing consoles every hour or two or having loads of quest bugs that lose progress.

I was thinking about this the other day...is all this goodwill purely from The Witcher 3 being a great game (a lot of credit to the source material, to be fair) and getting patches and support after releasing in a buggy state? I remember waiting like six months after launch to start playing it regularly because of…

“Report: CDPR becomes first developer to both recoup and immediately un-recoup development costs in first week”

“...and if Sephiroth’s Wing Form appears at 69%, the crowd will yell NICE and you’ll have the ability to wavedash for the rest of the match. The team was skeptical, but I really pushed for this feature.”

I don’t think they ever pulled AC Unity, but that probably allowed console reviews and footage before the release date.

Sammmmeee. That was fascinating to hear. It was also adorable to have him specify the frame counts for a couple of attacks and then catch himself, saying “oh wait, I shouldn’t say stuff like this, I’m making a party game” and the crew laughing. The man’s a treasure.

I was surprised that they chose to translate and port the NES original when the SNES FEs are supposedly better games and surely have aged better as well. Maybe the explanation is that another one is coming 3/31...

And they all wonder why Nintendo continually doesn’t want to acknowledge their scene’s existence...

I mean, sure, be an apologist for the major corporation’s massive fuckup that’s the messiest major release in a generation. I don’t remember hearing about the other major open world releases having dicks out glitches, T-posing and disappearing characters, game breaking and system crashing bugs, and probably the worst…

To be fair, even the base PS4 has pushed some amazing graphics over the past couple of years, punching far above its weight with Last of Us 2, RDR 2, FF7 Remake, God of War, Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn, Resident Evil 2/3, etc. And Cyberpunk looks and runs like shit compared to all of them on the console. After…

I finally finished the Link’s Awakening remake this morning, which was a delightful little palette cleanser, and I’ll likely wrap up Age of Calamity this weekend since I get the sense that I’m 80-90% of the way done.

Personally I’m a big fan of the Low Poly mode that PS4 and Xbox One users are currently beta testing. Bold move to push the retro aesthetic that far on a major AAA game!

“In 29 of the 33 patients studied, evidence of previous or current Bartonella infection was found, with tests finding antibodies to the bacteria or direct traces of the bacteria in their system. Twenty-four of these patients also had skin lesions linked to Bartonella infection that developed at around the same time…

I mean, that’s great and all, but like...why were these giant mergers allowed in the first place? It was pretty easy to see at the time that Facebook was just buying up its competition rather than innovating, and it’s not like the social media space has that much competition to begin with.

As someone who loved The Witcher 3 quite a bit...probably not, which makes me somewhat sad. The Witcher is such a nuanced and empathetic series underneath it all - it’s a cruel and bleak world torn apart by selfish wars and human greed, but Geralt is still able to (if you choose to do so) act kindly and make his world…

Using internet wizardry (Google Maps) and advanced sleuthing techniques (the measurement function), it looks like the area, which is still very much in construction in GMaps but shares the same outline, is approximately 56,000 sf (very approximate, given the weird shape of the footprint). This happens to be almost…

Even though I loved P5 (and am currently playing it again through Royal), up until recently I wasn’t very excited about a musou sequel. But now that I’m deep into Age of Calamity and absolutely loving it, I’m incredibly hyped for this!

I mean, that’s all great and whatnot...but all I want is some goddamn folders so I can sort my literal dozens of games rather than just facing the deluge of my impulse buying history.

The PS4's drive didn’t even recognize CDs (audio or PS1), so I doubt they changed that for the PS5.