Fighting games have always had bullshit monetization practices in the form of “character packs,” since developers know that the competitive players who grind these games and the TOs who need to assemble hundreds of setups pre-loaded with the game’s full roster are essentially a captive market. The fact that FG…

I hate this false framing of the problem that implies Blizzard had *no choice* but to turn this formerly paid game into still more FTP garbage w/ core features hidden behind paywalls and progression metrics. How do you fund servers, “pay staff” (to the extent they even do this), etc.? It’s simple: launch the game with…

Protect *which* black women? Frey is a fictional character and (as Kotaku has already pointed out) no black writers worked on the team that crafted her portrayal in Forspoken. I don’t think we should let major media conglomerates use hollow gestures towards diversity to distract from a bad product, especially when…

I agree with this 100%. I have a respectable hour count for Tf2 on my old steam account, but I stopped playing some time ago because of how bad Valve’s support for the game was. I’m slowly coming back into the game, because I love the core gameplay and the lmaobox banwave/matchmaking beta both seem promising, but in…

I’m a huge TF2 fanboy, 100%. I still enjoy TF2's core gameplay more than Overwatch, even though Valve lost me a two years ago through their stupid, short-sighted decisions regarding matchmaking, cheat detection, and balance. I’m coming back to the game slowly (through jump maps, messing around on tr_walkway, playing…

Kaizo levels in general and Poo’s levels in particular are both fun *and* creative. And even if they weren’t, it doesn’t make any sense to delete these levels but not the dev pipe enemy spam blind jump pick a door bullshit that makes up so much of mario maker.

Frankly, I feel like the earlier setup where the Marvel universe was inexplicably populated almost exclusively by white dudes was a harder pill to swallow, but that’s just me. Some of the comics are bad— but it has nothing to do with the fact that the person under the spandex has changed and everything to do with the…

The problem is that there are already tons of initiatives for disabled gamers, including (but not limited to):

Customized game pads and sticks with better ease of access

All-new games with sound design that facilitates vision-impaired play, or mods to already existing games that add a more robust soundscape

Gaming sites…

Thanks for your responses as well. This whole thing has been refreshing and pretty positive, for an internet debate. That said, I’m sticking to my guns here. I don’t think my reaction is over-sensitive— the line that pops out at me is the deserves more than likes on a video. To me, that comment speaks to a bad…

This is probably the most annoying response I’ve seen to this article. Disabled gamers don’t need you guys to give us a big medal to confer legitimacy to our accomplishments. And if the disabled community (or more specificially, the blind community) wants to start an award for achievement, they can damn well do it…

I don’t know what Gomen’s deal is, but I’m just pointing out why comments like these so often come off as patronizing or belittling to *actual disabled people* like myself. I know that OP meant to support disabled people with his post. He screwed that up, plain and simple. You can see that in my response, in Mikkuru’s…

Another disabled gamer here, thought I’d chime in. Goman is 100% correct when he says that disabled people don’t necessarily need or want validation for accomplishing things that able-bodied people do every day. I’ll do my best to explain why, but just fyi it is *really* hard to frame this argument without sounding…