Fun fact: the AP style book specifically allows the use of “:(“ only when referring to the departure of a beloved president of Nintendo of America.

Kids deserve good movies too.

Yeah, the changes they are making are insane. Not only the reduction of summon costs (which is awesome) but they are also taking Wyrmprints out of the summon pool permanently, refunding elderwater for dupe heroes you pulled previously, and opening a wyrmprint shop so you can buy the ones you want with the elderwater…

I get this comment so frequently on articles about the Sims and it really makes me fucking crazy. I have a very full life—I have a lot of non-games hobbies, I have a very fulfilling relationship, and I have a job I love. I spend a lot of time with many friends who enrich my life. I have a full life that also happens…

One of us doesn’t know what Nosferatu-style vamp means.

How do you know?

Not at literal gunpoint, but they are, figuratively. Game dev is the career they wanted. This is what they do for a living. Crunch is forcing brutal work hours by coercion of job security; you either meet your employer’s demands, or wind up on the chopping block in the next quarterly review.

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

I’m happy to see one of these articles go up so far in advance of a launch. Hopefully key decision makers take a read, do an honest accounting of where they are/where they want to be, gauge fan feedback, and get the ship steadied well before launch.

Jason, I’ve been a developer on more than one of these types of monolithic ambitious-but-aimless projects that eventually lurches over the finish line (late). You’ve gone through months (or years) of very real suffering to get it to that point, and when it arrives, you’re embarrassed at what’s been put out. It’s…

Was waiting for this. Will read later on but just wanted to say continue doing the lord’s work.

I’ve been waiting for the Schreier breakdown of how this fell apart far more than the game itself.

People have said this about every art style since the dawn of time. There were inevitably cavemen at some point lamenting how the old ways of drawing bison had been lost.

Just added it this week! And I’m looking for any suggestions of other cool and weekly updated game-related webcomics

You must be a youngster. They’ve always been about gimmicks! ROB, the Power Glove, Super Scope, SNES mouse and keyboard, Donkey Kongas, the entire existence of the Virtual Boy and Nintendo Wii...

I wanted this game to do well because I want Bioware as a studio to survive and make more games.

Though Sobble is best boi, I really like Scorbunny and hope it doesn’t have a secondary fighting type.

It is broadly true that “haters” are an inescapable part of any public-facing position; no matter what you do, no matter how much good you do, or no matter how fundamentally disconnected you are from a perceived problem/irritant, there will always be a vocal minority of dickheads who will feel the need to shit in your…

1 little bug in the code