Ultimately I understand the logic behind the change and I agree with it. But ugh, I'm not ready to see the flood of whiners who will claim they're campaigning for integrity or some bullshit, when in reality they're just upset over losing their alone time material.
Today’s big Internet controversy involves butts, as these things so often do. An Overwatch player complained about one character’s butt-centric victory pose, prompting the game’s director to say they’re removing it.
iriarsham posted these screenshots over the weekend, to remind us all that despite its advancing years and creaking engine, Skyrim—with help from fans—continues to look absolutely stunning.
On March 31, Nintendo is launching a new webshop for their downloadable games over at Nintendo.com. The store, accessible to Nintendo Account holders on both mobile and PC, will display current sales and let you search the catalogue by genre, popularity, or release date, with purchases sent directly to your console.
Confession: I have no love for David Hayter either. I only enjoy his voice on a comedic level. Akio Otsuka's the real Snake, BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH
“I was kinda hoping that Konami would take me back now that he was gone.” In a special edition of the Game Informer podcast, actor and screenwriter David Hayter talked about his “humiliating” replacement as Metal Gear’s leading man and how he really feels about the series creator who wanted him gone.
You don't need to watch the video (the article gives you enough of an idea), but if you really want to then you can skip the little montage thing until about 3:30.
Just sharing because this put so many ideas in my head, and I had the realization again that there's so much content that the MMO genre hasn't explored, in anime or related media. And at this rate I don't believe it will, because the whole "trapped inside" bubble is ready to burst, and in general the scene has carried itself shamefully and won't get any respect from anyone outside of it.
I can't help but be bothered by it all because I still have a strong connection to that time I spent, and I wish there were a way to properly convey that world to those who haven't fully experienced it themselves, to immerse them in it and help them understand just why people love it. Maybe the whole anime/manga/LN offshoot of this stuff needs another decade-long break, to take a hard look at itself and market the genre from a new angle. I don't want it to end, but it can't last the way it currently stands. At least not without losing whatever dignity it may somehow have left.
Active Worlds is an MMO from 1995 that nobody really plays anymore. That’s where this story begins.
Nik is the German company behind popular mobile app Snapseed, and a bunch of fantastic plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. The company was bought in 2012
by Google, and all of its plugins have just been made free.
“Hellooooooo world!!!” wrote Microsoft’s new AI bot in its first tweet yesterday morning. By the end of the day, it had declared that Hitler did nothing wrong.
In Japan, the Dragon Ball energy attack is called “Kamehameha.” In the U.S., it’s Kamehameha. In Germany, it’s Kamehameha. In Latin America, it’s Kamehameha and sounds fucking badass in Spanish. But in Spain? Heh.
Godfuckingdammit. I hope this doesn't become a widespread thing.
Melee players have been complaining about Smash 4’s limited movement options for years, but now a whole new slew of techniques called “bidou” have been discovered to make Smash 4 a whole lot faster.
*eyebrows twitch nervously, tries to remind himself it's just a prototype*
A series of new photos, posted two different places and purporting to show the controller for Nintendo’s next console, reveal a controller without buttons, one that’s shaped like a football.
Paint roller? Nope! This is an official Splatoon lint remover, Famitsu reports. It’s the latest real-world Splatoon product, joining the likes of the Splattershot water gun
. Hope it’s overpowered against lint...
Interesting concept with an awesome execution. Artist Ástor Alexander made some Zelda fan-art, inspired by 17th century art, and put some of the series’ characters in the role of Renaissance figures.
Nintendo has a real problem on its hands with Mario Maker. Left and right, creators are seeing their levels removed from the online servers without an explanation. David “GrandPOObear” Hunt, a speedrunner who makes a living streaming games, is the latest victim. All of his levels have vanished.
When I was seven years old, I kept a Greymon alive for thirty days. This was a big deal for both myself and the rest of the schoolyard, because back then, successful Digimon-rearing came down to sheer unadulterated blind luck (as opposed to actual motherly care and/or strategy). The sparsely-populated desert wasteland that was the 1998 dial-up internet landscape wasn’t exactly throwing piles of “How to Raise Digimon” guides at me, unlike today’s Google-indexed super-library which practically inundates us all with such things. A demonstration: search for “hummus dip recipes” and I guarantee Google will return on its hands and knees with no less than seven-hundred billion links on how to evolve a Metalgreymon on the original V-Pet device. But the point: I had somehow looked after my regular old Greymon so well that it had lived to the ripe old age of seven-hundred and twenty hours, and I was damn proud of myself (and my excellent luck). I had even stopped battling, so afraid of the trauma it might cause my pixelated dinosaur mutant. And look, again with the point about the lack of easily-accessible information back then: I had no idea whether or not thirty days was a great amount of time, relatively speaking - for all I knew, thirty days could have painted me as an utter skin-waste undeserving of even the rank of ‘novice’ among the hardcore Digimon rearers of the time. Among my friends, however, I was one of the Digidestined - if Myotismon had tried to take over the world back then, they’d have turned to me for help.
In One Piece, Luffy eats the terrible-tasting Gomu Gomu no Mi, which makes his body all elastic. Since this replica is made of synthetic plastic and rubber, it probably tastes terrible, too, but won’t make your body all stretchy. It’ll make you sick!
Back in the good old days, everybody knew that Charizard was the only Pokémon card that really mattered. The unspoken understanding among Pokémon fans was that if you didn’t have a holographic Charizard, your card collection was shit.
Today in San Francisco, director Kotaro Uchikoshi and the rest of the team behind Zero Escape 3: Zero Time Dilemma revealed a bunch of new details for the upcoming adventure game. Which is crazy-exciting news for those of us who have played and fallen in love with 999 and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward.
person: haha wow! australia is terrifying!!
me: yeah, christ, the racism, xenophobia, and strong conservative governm--
person: what, no, i'm talking about this weird frog
me: oh
Nintendo: The Love/Hate Relationship You Never Asked For
Nintendo is still deleting levels from Super Mario Maker’s online community for mysterious reasons. The latest victim? Mario’s youngest fans, apparently.
