All of the Duke Nukem games are apparently being removed from GOG.com, at least temporarily (depending on how shitty Gearbox decides to be about it, I guess). And because of that, all of the games are on sale right now, prior to being removed. I suppose I'll pick them up, since I remember having a fair bit of fun with them back in the old days, ( Read more... )

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- HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 16, 2015

Looks like my guess that Kojima was most likely just burning vacation time before abandoning the sinking shit that is Konami was indeed pretty much the case, more or less ( Read more... )

...or, at least, the stupidity of some people who create game projects on Kickstarter. More like the stupidities of video game development in general, I suppose ( Read more... )

Seriously, modern video game industry? Seriously? ಠ_ಠ

I think Angry Joe (or, rather, the Sovereign) says it best:
My Reaction to FF7 being "Episodic"! pic.twitter.com/05Zw6d9dOT
- Joe Vargas (@AngryJoeShow) December 7, 2015
I'm just glad I was already mostly apathetic about the FF7 remake in the first place, even before this news ( Read more... )

The only real problem with this comic is that instead of being depicted as a monk, the dev would, in too many cases, be more accurately depicted as a second, bigger scorpion (which is itself riding on the shoulder of what we shall call a "typical video game consumer," depicted in this scenario by Lennie Small, or perhaps Hodor).

Here is the ( Read more... )

owsf2000's post, my comment. The drill, you know it.

(Yeah, it's gotten to the point where this sort of thing now warrants its own tag.)

owsf2000's post, my comments (with one more for good measure).

I recently played through Telltale's Game of Thrones series, now that the entire thing is available. I enjoyed 99.9% of it. But that doesn't mean I didn't have some issues, even so.

(Warning: mild-to-moderate spoilers for episodes 3 and 4 of the Game of Thrones Telltale series are below.)

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owsf2000's post. My comments.

You know the drill by now, I guess. *apathetic shrug*

That's great.

As for me, I'm simply looking forward to playing the GotY/Ultimate version with allmost of the bugs fixed and all of the inevitable DLC bundled in, whenever that gets released in a few years. *shrug*