Coming next week to HBO!

I don’t think this is all that hot a hot take, but smart move by the Housers here. A GTA movie would be an unnecessary drag on the brand, and even if it wasn’t a terrible movie, it would have been perceived as one.

I’m old enough to remember when people accused her initial skeptics of licking the corporate oppressor’s boot because we thought maybe her story didn’t initially seem on the up-and-up. A friendly hand-wave to y’all.

It’s fine, and necessary, to have the larger labor and contract conversation about whether VAs deserve residuals, but Taylor didn’t do that. Instead, she used lies and omissions to activate both the Gamers (TM) and the pro-unionization folks simultaneously and point their rage at a studio and a fellow voice actor.

This may not be the reason why Kotaku does it, but if the Tweet is pulled down, it’ll disappear from the story, so having the quote is a good back-up. Also, as a few folks mentioned, not everyone reading the story might be able to see the embed for whatever reason.

Definitely more than just her side of this story. She could have raised all of this publicly (or leaked it) when the game was still in development, to give her leverage, but instead she decided to take her shot a week before release. Why? What’s the whole story here? Were they planning to drop her for legitimate…

We’re absolutely missing a big piece of this. My guess is Kamiya or Nintendo didn’t want her returning, but they had to make some offer because of her contract from the previous games.

“Greetings, Bobby Kotick. Shall you go to hell?”

Maybe it can be renamed Overwatch and Bobby Kotick Can Fuck Right Off.

I cheered at that line. (Well, cheered quietly, but still, I cheered.)

Oh, man, what to do? Play an “enjoyable” game sick with loot boxes and put out by scumbag company Activision Blizzard. or play a different “enjoyable” game without monetization published by an entirely different company? What should I do with my time? I just don’t know.

Now that the series is 20 years old, can Sora be a disillusioned 34-year-old father who has to balance work, parenting and going out with his best buds Donald and Goofy?

This is currently sitting at about 50 percent wholesome, which is probably the upward limit of wholesomeness allowed on the internet.

Oh, no, no, you’re a smart guy. You’ve clearly picked up some flashy tricks. But you made one crucial mistake. You forgot about the essence of the game... it’s about the Cones.

Everything about these reviews says this game will be right up my alley — as a $30 or $40 purchase when it’s on sale.

Hey, I Kill Chaos everywhere I go. I don’t need to buy a game to Kill Chaos. I just go out there and Kill Chaos.

I half-expect there to be a fully-running copy of Skyrim ported over to a fake console in Franklin’s house tucked into the latest port of GTA 5.

Call it a vibe, call it a hunch. The bright-colored armors, what looks like trash mobs of enemies in co-op arenas. It just has that feel to it.

This has that “live service” stink all over it. It’s almost as if they started making a new Dino Crisis, and someone in the C-suite told them to turn it into a looter shooter with MTX opportunities.

As bad as that first Judge Dredd movie was (and it was bad!), it did capture the weird campiness of the 2000 AD comics in a way that the much, much better Dredd movie didn’t.