I don’t really think that’s a fair assessment of Japanese rhythm games at all. I mean, some of them certainly do have anime songs - Taiko no Tatsujin is the most obvious one, where not only do they have an extensive catalog of anime songs, it’s actually the first genre the game loads up on in the song select; there…

The repair procedure for the DualSense’s analogs are essentially identical, in that they both require soldering to replace the analog modules. The overall teardown seems much more intense for the DualSense though, as there are more screws, more clips, more layers, just more everything. The outer layers at least are…

Honestly, I hate to be cynical, but as a rhythm game fan who has historically been locked out of most of my favorite games because they are Japanese arcade-exclusive, this has been a huge boon for me. Quarantine has forced many rhythm game developers to adapt by basically re-committing to producing home versions of…

I recently watched a DualSense teardown, and it turns out that the DualSense uses the exact same joystick modules as the DS4 did, so it’s no wonder this problem persists. What’s more surprising is that people are starting to experience the problem this quickly. Like damn, what the fuck are y’all DOING to your…

There is also a market for shoppers who want to go hunting for rare items and deals.

I do hope you understand that EA and TT are not exactly representative of the entire gaming market. Yes, plenty of people are going digital for a lot of games, but there is still, and there will always be, a strong demand for physical games, if for no other reason that games continue to increase exponentially in file…

I’m glad that I now live in the timeline where people are just hornyposting about Bowser and not Bowsette.

Friendly reminder that capitalism is incapable of solving the problems caused by capitalism.

The small ones I know tend to be really focused on the big spenders in the retro market

You know, it feels like I’ve been hearing about the “inevitable collapse” of GameStop for literally centuries, and yet at the retail level, they seem to be operating as strong as ever. I mean, I don’t personally go there, because even though I still overwhelmingly prefer physical copies I just order them all online…

There’s a lot to be said about how much impact that improved framerate and resolution make for a game. Honestly, most PS4 (and PS3) games would be drastically improved just by implementing stable 1080p60. This remaster seems to accomplish at least that, so good on them. But yeah, the lighting... It’s a miss for me. If…

Look, if they didn’t want me to fall in love with Alois, they wouldn’t have made him so loveable.

When will companies learn?

I guess it was MiHoYo behind all the bot scapers then.

Reminder that this is the same company that is still using friend codes in 2021 and until literally this year has been using technology from 2003 to run their multiplayer servers. Nintendo = fossils.

Gatekeeper-kun really should have been marriable. It was the least they could have given us after the hate crime that was Alois’ S-rank.

The necessity of such a system is unavoidable when supply is incapable of meeting demand like this. I’m not sure what you mean. If you mean that the existence of scalpers and the like is ridiculous, then yes, I obviously agree, but they are an inevitable byproduct of high-demand, low-supply consumer goods. It’s not…

Actually, I would be perfectly fine with GameStop becoming a 100% online retailer. It’s honestly what I expected to happen several years ago back when people were first talking about GameStop potentially crashing. (Also, in my experience, you can’t really “see or touch” any of the used games you buy at GameStop until…

That was the point. COVID is basically non-existent in Vietnam, and yet they are still encouraged to maintain the basic decency of social distancing until group vaccination can be achieved. They are effectively doing the bare minimum, and Japan should be doing at least that. This does not look like that. I mean, I…

David Lynch is both the creator we need and the creator we deserve.