Grim news. I’ve taken this extremely personally because RPS and Eurogamer basically ensured I didn’t just write a game and get lost in the milieu over and over again. Whether that’s writing about my stuff, writing for them, sitting on panels or having my work on show, they’ve been a consistent force for good. I’m proud to have bylines on Gamer Network.
I’ve taken this extremely personally because RPS and Eurogamer basically ensured I didn’t just write a game and get lost in the milieu over and over again. Whether that’s writing about my stuff, writing for them, sitting on panels or having my work on show, they’ve been a consistent force for good.
I’m proud to have bylines on Gamer Network. I’m grateful to everyone who helped lift me up. I’m just one of many they helped raise and what IGN have done is a travesty.
The staff over at GI dot biz have bust a gut over the years to turn the place around from a complete shitshow to the best in class, doing the work of business posting for other businesses whilst keeping a beady eye on the human costs that come with people existing in videogames and holding games companies to account with their own words and actions.
Everyone in videogames is worse off for this. Every good person we lose has been a champion for someone else. They’ve brought eyeballs to games and situations that would struggle to find any. Games is a lesser place with every callous sacking and a little bit of hope and magic disappears alongside.
My brain absolutely hates that thing game news sites are doing where they embed random videos of a completely different game midway through the article. It throws me for a loop every single time.
@Bobbins That last volume is terrible. Mignola nearly saved it at the end but bleh. Mind you, the whole run gradually turned into the most miserable, turgid thing after the sheer magic and wonder of Hellboy. I still have all my books, because I know they’d be impossible to buy again if I sold them. But they’re right on the eBay line.
I think Jon Blow complaining about not being able to find Braid on PSN without scrolling to the bottom of the list of new releases and having to be told to stop sorting by best selling and it goes to the top will give me strength for years to come.
It’s always a treat to get a new Super Destronaut game to play around with, they’re some of my fave new arcade games. They’re rarely difficult or especially punishing, preferring instead to focus on the simple pleasures of shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them explode in a violent sea of colour. In other words, absolutely perfect for me, the person who likes nothing more than shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them…
@craiggrannell Yeah, I can appreciate that. I think I’ve huffed enough survivor films in recent months that the despondent ending was something I was expecting from the moment they drew attention to the cadet.
For me, with only half a page given over to Dredd wandering off, I don’t think it quite had the space to pull off the sort of widescreen despair to really make the sacrifice work. Cramming so much onto that one page left no room to take it in and breathe.
@Bobbins I think it was too soon to do a ‘shock’ death after Maitland. Although this one was ultimately just a red shirt. But then Williams has a habit of creating interesting cast and then killing them off. I’m just not sure what the point was here though. A feint? “She’s going to be great! Dredd likes her. FOOLED YOU!” Something else?
Sorry. I have no context for the quote but in this month's Edge there's a quote from a videogame dude saying they hate achievements and what they've done to games and I don't think I've paid even the vaguest attention to them in years.
Quite enjoyed the novelty when they were invariably challenging the player to try playing in an unusual way but they don't impact the way I play a game even slightly anymore. I don't know how normal this is but I'd guess at "very"
@Bobbins I've stopped playing games that have aggressive achievements, I get distracted too easily and it's like trying to skateboard over cobblestone.
Idea: Super Smash Bros but with old videogame characters who retain all the quirks from their original games.
Choose your fighter: the one with the collision box 3 times the size of the sprite, the one who dies if they fall more than their own height, the one with the fixed arc jump, the one that can't do diagonals, the one that rarely responds, the one with two frames of animation, the one with the colour clash, the one that's precisely the size of one UDG, the egg you just kick shit out of...