They are not legitimate businesses either so they don’t pay for the associated permits and taxes that help keep the cities they operate in able to fund their services and infrastructure. Hell these scum probably dont even report their ill gotten income dodging those taxes too.

It was in their [stream] title, too. It was like ‘The Last Of Us Bunny Girl Plays VRChat.’ Immediately I was DM-ing my lawyer, and I was like, ‘Dude, what do we do about this? Is this OK? What if this guy with my face and my name in the title starts spewing hate speech?’ [My lawyer] was like ‘I’m gonna be honest…

Excitedly waiting for Ys 9 on PC here. Have always loved the series, it being the first true RPG I ever played, way back on the Sega Master System. Even if it’s not as good as Ys 8, or a bit simplistic in plot or wobbly in new mechanics the games have always been fine at the gameplay level, and usually have astounding…

Ys though is absolutely Euraboo in its in game world and lore, a Japanese fantasy of Europe and France especially, with Ys coming from a French myth, but also having the “Romun” empire, and the Cloaca Maxima being a real Roman sewer...

For those who don’t know, this is an actual gameplay mechanic in “Serious Sam Double D / XXL”; you do indeed get to stack guns on top of guns. It’s a sideways scrolling run and gun rather than FPS, but it’s cheap glorious fun.

Your heart might be in the right place, but you’re seriously misjudging the argument Nathan is making. It’s also one that has been discussed in philosophy and art and practical law and politics for generations. In fact, it’s the basis of this famous exchange from “A Man For All Seasons”;

Yup.

I’ve talked about my own experience of online harassment here, but a quick recap before I point out the relevance to this article; if you look at the ceddit/removeddit of the “Shroud of the Avatar” sub-reddit, you’ll see that for the past 6 years two users of that community in particular have been obsessed with trying…

I’m really not sure why any of this is a surprise; anyone who has been in gaming for long enough has seen this pattern repeated over and over again, from City of Heroes’ Mission Architect where the most popular missions weren’t the well written story arcs but those that provided simple power levelling services, to…

Ys Book 1 was the first true RPG I ever played, back on the Sega Master System; interestingly they replaced all the Moe artwork with more western, DnD style imagery, so I was considerably surprised when I came back to the series years later and saw just how anime it really was. And despite the poor sound chip in the…

The sad thing is, only Investors or similar have the kind of money required to seek justice in the courts when it comes to the gaming industry;

I’ve seen both sides of this, both having worked in the gaming industry and having my designed events targeted by sociopaths looking to destroy them, and currently now being into year 6 of a lunatic obsessing about me and posting endless rape and death threats all over the internet because of criticism of a particular…

“Listen I get it, Apple sucks, their fees are exorbitant, and they’re anti-competition. I’m on your side. Stick it to ‘em.”

I’m glad someone else mentioned Knights of the Sky; I never got around to being able to play it in multiplayer, although I bought a second hand Amiga once to sync to the first purely to do so (only to find the port was probably broken) yet I spend many, many hours in the campaign. Wonderful atmosphere with the…

In a capitalist society, the main democractic right you have is the ability to spend, or withdraw spending on individual products in order to signal to the market what ethics you wish to see corporations follow.

Now I feel extremely old... How is there any debate about this? It’s not even a Japanese thing, the Beatles in the 60s were told to hide their relationship status because it would put off the screaming teenage girls in the audience. That included publicly denying both that John Lennon was…

Do you know of any good, cheap arcade cabinet part stores in the UK? I had a look at the Neo Geo website and it seems it’s not fully functional yet, it has a link for European and US vendors, that doesn’t go anywhere...

Coming to this reporting late, as I was away from home, but the arc of this story has already been fully plotted out, in another Kickstarter that took direct advice from Chris Roberts on how to proceed, and has since led to bankruptcy and dissolving of the company, and all the assets being sold off to one of the…

I’ve never played a GTA before; and I only came to GTAV with the game being given away free on the Epic Store recently. So as a complete newbie, let me explain something about the basic game that I think is conspicously missing from most reviews, including this one...

My guess is EG saw that, and said “Hmm, actually, that’s a good point.”