Kids today just won't know what it's like to get shouted at by random people on the internet because your game is 11MB thus breaking the holy covenant.
Seeing talk of controller complexity reminds me that there's people out there who don't continually press the wrong button out of the two weirdly labelled ones to get to the map/inventory/quest log/options feature they need.
@Bobbins I spend far too much time swearing at the controllers. Usually when I return to the game after a few days and have absolutely no idea how to control anything anymore and the controls aren’t listed anywhere outside of the tutorials I’ve completely forgotten.
Bit of a videogame power duo thing going on with Datasette and Pixeljam working together on vector styled new arcade games and dear me, just look at how it’s all turning out! It’s beautiful!
This is Grid Ranger then and it looks wonderful. Here’s the Steam page. Give the video a watch because it looks even better in motion.
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?