Except Mario Run didn’t make nearly as much money as Fire Emblem Heroes does, and Mario is WAY more popular an IP than FE. A game like Animal Crossing, which is all about buying furniture to decorate your house, was always going to go for the microtransaction model than the pay-once model. (Which, btw, Pokemon Go also…

It’s a turnoff. I’ve got too limited time in my life to watch anime to waste it on a show that spends its runtime with panty shots and boob-groping. It’s just a skeezier version of fart jokes, lazy and obvious.

That doesn’t sound too terrible for an Animal Crossing-lite. If Nintendo holds to their whole “use mobile games as commercials for people to play the main series” like they’ve done with Pokemon Go/Fire Emblem/Mario Run, I’m more than happy to have this appetizer in wait for the inevitable Switch one.

In most places you only have access to ONE ISP, so they control 100% of your internet, no matter how much control Google has over its own chunk of the internet. If you don’t like how Google’s running their business, there are other search engines you can use. If you’re in a place where Comcast is your only option and…

Yeah, you’ve always been able to use motion controls. That’s how I play. Rough aiming for general ink coverage, and motion controls when I need to aim more precisely at enemy squid.

I feel those “everyone rushing and trampling” videos are kind of self-sustaining? Like, the videos only exist because someone wanted to make that video/news story/etc. Whereas most stores just set up lines outside, hand out tickets, and is boringly orderly.

Gosh darnit, Riley, just finish the damn Witcher already. You were doing SO well with non-Witcher icons for a change for a few weeks!

At least in the US, I imagine they’re trying to build up stock to prepare for the holiday shopping, which doesn’t really kick off till Black Friday. They’ll probably start to sell out again.

Any magic-wielder who passes their magic ability genetically. This is assuming I’m their biological child and not adopted.

True, most of Sony Pictures Animation stuff is hot garbage (Smurfs, that upcoming Peter Rabbit movie), but I DID like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Hotel Transylvania.

Studio Ghibli isn’t in the “western world.”

This will be a movie tie-in to the inevitable Mario + Minions game.

In a perfect world, this seems like a super fun idea. Realistically, it’s just ripe for the usual garbage people hurling racial epithets, coupled with trolling from the master of ceremonies.

Yeah, but we’re talking unlocks for LUKE SKYWALKER and DARTH VADAR in a Star Wars game. That would be like Zelda having you play the first 50 hours as Tingle for the ability to unlock Link. (OR pay $14.99 up front!)

All of Mineralblu’s photos are labeled with the character, directly on the image.

Shoulda’ tried it before the glut of amazing fall releases.

I remember when games had cosmetics that WEREN’T stashed away in garbage gamble-boxes. Oh right— it was yesterday when I was playing Mario Odyssey. I happen to LOVE cosmetic items and would rather not be nickel-and-dimed just because I want my character to have fun clothes.

That’s bull. As if a Star Wars-themed game wasn’t already destined to sell millions of copies, even without lootbox garbage. Guarantee you that just flat copies-sold would’ve STILL turned a huge profit.

Nothing’s going to change in a day, but this sort of stuff erodes players’ good will. It’ll be just like the whole Rock Band genre: makes a ton of money so the companies keep churning out the games, and then suddenly the bubble bursts and the Rock Bands of the world lose a ton of money. Not even a reboot can…