He made $30,000 - $35,000 in the final year of a site that (as far as I can tell) operated for 6-7 years. Even a low ballpark puts him at making over $100k in a few years selling access to pirated media, and I doubt running a site like that needs to be a full-time job, so he probably had a day job as well (and could…

So my assumption is that they're delisting these older games partially due to music licensing fees as well, which is why many older games get delisted.

It’s on Game Pass now through EA Play as well, which makes it even easier to access.

Yeah, I'm very much in favor of emulation for the preservation of gaming as an art form, so I was nervous to see the headline. But fuck this guy and his stupid life choices, he earned that verdict.

For tonight’s episode of Fanboy Fairy Tales, we go to the Ubisoft game factory’s military shooter assembly line...

Interesting. I’ve yet to start DQ7 because I’d heard so much that it’s a long game with slow pacing, more so than most games in the series. Certainly never heard it described as snappy. I’m definitely finding DQ8 to be a slow game, particularly because of the paper thin plot that’s mostly “oh no, the evil wizard’s…

Yeah, I typically do the same. I bought these and a handful of other 3ds games for my backlog on sale after the Switch came out and everyone immediately decided the 3ds was dead, I think I got each of them for ~$20. And I knew the Majora’s Mask 3ds was expensive and sought after, but mine’s the Hylian logo one, which…

I’ve been in the very bad habit of starting a bunch of JRPGs and not sticking with them over the past year, so I’m buckling down and doing my best to focus on a couple I was already pretty far in. Currently, that’s mainly been the 3ds version of Dragon Quest VIII, which I think I’m halfway through. Compared to XI (the…

Sakurai absolutely deserves a long and relaxing retirement if that’s what he decides, the man’s a legend. But I find it odd that he doesn’t seem to see the middle ground between “work myself so incredibly hard on massive game development projects for years on end that my body and health suffer” and “totally retire”.…

A similar RPG stat that I heard recently that’s both fascinating and makes me feel ancient is that the mainline Final Fantasy games have been in their weird experimental phase longer than they were traditional turn-based games.

Ash & Co after their encounter with law enforcement.

I’m surprised the article didn’t mention that this game has one of the most batshit premises in all JRPGs (a genre infamous for batshit premises, as I replay a game about the dying dreams of Frederic Chopin) - the president of the US is dying from a sudden nuclear attack on a major city, and wakes up in Ni No Kuni…

I'm surprised the article didn't mention that this game has one of the most batshit premises in all JRPGs (a genre infamous for batshit premises, as I replay a game about the dying dreams of Frederic Chopin) - the president of the US is dying from a sudden nuclear attack on a major city, and wakes up in Ni No Kuni…

*snaps awake from a dream within a dream*

Wildcard prediction: a new Torneko game now that rogue-like games are the hot thing, probably using DQ XI assets.

I know it’s a highly unlikely outcome, but how wild and insane could it be to have new storefronts on consoles like the Xbox and PS5? I mean, they’re basically PCs anyway, so adding Steam / GOG / Itch / etc sounds fascinating to me. Or perhaps a Microsoft store on PS5 and vice-versa out of spite?

I’ve very much been in a “re-experience the JRPGs of yesteryear” mode for much of the past year, so I’m currently playing both Final Fantasy XIII and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and I’m enjoying both much more than I expected for very different reasons.

I’ve never played it (also a coward) but I’m so surprised that a game so successfully centered around a brilliant systemic AI didn’t release as a 6-8 hour game with a semi-randomized rogue-like side mode (like the Prey reboot’s DLC). A shuffled space station layout with different tools and paths each time could’ve…

I definitely picked up a used PS3 for $40 online and then supported my amazing local games store by getting most of the exclusives I care about for another ~$70, but I don’t feel compelled to financially support Sony for any of this nonsense. It’d be a different story if the announcement ended with “...and we’ve also…

As someone who prioritizes retro gaming and preservation as much as many modern features, their original announcement had actually soured me somewhat on the idea of getting a PS5 anytime soon, so if anything this reversal just puts me back where I had started.