I hope each Garfield from Garfield: His 9 Lives is a playable character.

I’m sure Bethesda is super-upfront in all its marketing and packaging about how three’s a store in the game where you can pay real money to get more of the game you already bought.

• Hamsterdam | Switch

I like your take a lot. I often wonder if we’re talking about two separate game industries. — the third-party AAA publishers, who care only about live services, long tails, and recurring transactions, vs. the industry that produces the games people actually want to play.

This point can’t be made enough. I just bought Steamworld Heist for $6.50 yesterday. $6.50! It’s very good so far,and I could sink hours and hours into it if I want.

Game publishers: “Games are too expensive to make! We can’t charge more than $60, so we need microtransactions and loot boxes!”

Kotaku’s a news site, not a politician whose supporters are aligned with the protest.

Is “The Oncoming Storm” loot box legislation? Or maybe EA’s plans for Bioware?

Looks like Kotick needs some more of that sweet loot box cash now that he’s back on the prowl. I sure hope no one photo-shops horns on his head again.

CANADA!

I started watching tonight, and noticed some odd changes in the subtitles from what I remembered, like the missing translation on the toothpicks jar, and changing “Looks like we won” to “We won.” So I went on line to find out more, and I came across this shit.

So what’s the good word on Bloodstained? Is it out in the wild yet?

Yes, please. My hands will thank you.

So, is this game actually going to run on the Switch, or is this going to be some sort of streaming deal like Stadia or Microsoft’s xCloud? I can’t see how the Switch handles something so massive, but I’m no scientitian.

I mean, sure, Commander Keen is a vital, important part of gaming history. Why not turn it into a hot steaming pile of predatory garbage marketed to kids?

Need money? Take a piece of computer gaming history, repackage it as a kid-friendly story about a pair of cute twins on an adventure, then load it up with fee-to-play micro-transactions.

Oh, man, now that I’m done with Altered Carbon and Killing Eve I was looking forward to watching Deadly Class, right after I finish Legion and Runaways and Cloak and Dagger and Luke Cage and the Defenders and season 3 of Daredevil and Doomsday Squad and Legends of Tomorrow and Star Trek: Discovery and, bummer, Deadly…

My God. We must storm the gates at once for these fine fellows. Their well being is in our hands if we do not act now. To arms. Yes. To arms, I say. Gasp. Someone must act.

I just read the FAQ question on copyrights, and they must have been smoking something with that response. They spoke to lawyers and got the OK? On a budget of $120,000?

Oh, boy! A new type of currency! The brilliant minds at EA have done it again! Bravo!