As the article says, you would not be questioned. They aren’t trying to prevent you from stealing. They’re trying to prevent you from being overcharged.

Microsoft and Sony get plenty of press coverage about this stuff, too, but they are in so many sectors other than games that their gaming businesses can sometimes be lost in the shuffle. Microsoft’s CEO doesn’t exclusively talk about Xbox, Sony’s doesn’t exclusively talk about Playstation. Nintendo’s CEO talks almost…

Packaging up an Arduino/Pi/STEM type of kit in a way that lets you market it as a video game is a business innovation.

Third parties are making USB Gamecube-style controllers and wireless ones that act like Pro Controllers. Those may have some of the quality issues typical of third-party controllers (great controllers are hard to make, Nintendo is good at it, etc.). The official Gamecube controllers from Nintendo are literal Gamecube…

I’ve heard from lots of people this week that they don’t like Queen, since the Freddy Mercury movie has lots of publications doing thinkpieces about his life, and anytime there’s an outpouring of fan love for a celebrity, someone else is going to get crankypants about how overrated they are. (See: Me in conversations…

“the 2002 game” is in reference to the Game & Watch Collection game on Game Boy, not Melee.

Caddyshack is painfully unfunny.

The second set of sentences is what I am arguing is incorrect. When comparing the two objects you describe, where Object A is 25 unites and Object B is 100 units, you could say that Object A is 75% smalelr than Object B, or that Object B is 300% larger than Object A.

No... something that’s 20% larger is 120% the size of the original object. It is the original size + 20% of its size.

There’s no rational reason why they should have to include a fighter in the game just because it’s ready on day one. If the game is worth paying for, it’s worth paying for. If the DLC is worth paying for on top of that, it’s worth paying for. You could easily rephrase this question to be “If it’s possible to sell me…

I should edit this because I’m not sure. Is that the gimmick for that one particular bot in that one movie? If so, not really what the rest of us are complaining about when we talk about the transformations in these movies, I don’t think. But I haven’t seen all of them.

Yeah I know all of that. It strikes me as odd that they thought “People want to play as Peach! Let’s keep her as the kidnapped character, but let them play as an imitation of her!”

The worst part of this is that Nintendo will look at this and think “It was a great idea to make Toadette turn into Peachette in NSMBUDx!" instead of letting either of them be actual characters. There's something very off-putting the fact that they couldn't fathom a tiny Peach, big Toadette, having two female…

The specific features that are ‘causing the problem’ are online-only features. The problem stems from the fact that they have a dumb, client-heavy, server-light approach to storing information like your ranking on a leaderboard or your traded items in an online game. Those things should ALWAYS be tracked server-side…

And then add to this the set of three options that were added in MK8 DX, all meant to make the game more accessible and easier to control for newcomers. For some reason, they decided these newbie-friendly accessibility features should be hidden, abstracted down to icons with no text explaining what they do, and each…

More people have 2+ controllers.

Hah, is that a “made up French word”? I always thought it was just a “made up word.” I would have spelled it “reconnoiter” which looks just as silly but decidedly less French.

If it helps - the SNES version has slowdown, too! Like, a lot. :)

I haven’t played either of the studio’s follow up games, because being honest with myself as much as they both seemed interesting, they didn’t appeal to me as much as Bastion did. Someday I might play Stranger’s Dream, but I know it’s not very meaty and when I had just finished the main game it seemed like a weird way…

Bastion is my jam, that game is a great example.