They could buy the rights to the Freespace franchise from Interplay. It’s the same story, after all.

The team behind the only good Mass Effect game was disbanded almost immediately after its release. I had no hope for the new one.

Gundam is a weird mix of hard sci-fi (spin gravity, no FTL) and utter ridiculousness (the mechs themselves, literal space magic.)

Or Gundam.

They don’t even make anything anymore. Just sports games, mobile games and Sims expansions.

How many gamers bought Veilguard?

EDIT: I just checked and it looks like the only game EA released since Veilguard that was targeting the general gaming audience (i.e. wasn’t a sports game, a Sims expansion or a mobile game) was Split Fiction. Battlefield 6 will be out in a couple of weeks so we’ll see how that does.

I was being sarcastic.

Yep. If you want to escape from surveillance and censorship, you’ve got to go to a communist country.

just because AMD did not spend years screwing the Linux community out of drivers.

They did, actually. It’s just that they did that a long time ago. I vividly remember a time when I avoided AMD hardware because, while Nvidia’s drivers were closed source, at least they worked. AMD’s drivers, when they worked at all, gave severely degraded performance compared to what that same hardware was capable of in Windows.

Fortunately, those days seem to be behind us now.

I get 99.999% of my games through GOG.

Chris Hansen married someone named Chris Hansen? What are the odds!

He did some sound design on Tomb Raider III and composed for The Last Revelation, Chronicles and Angel of Darkness. He wasn’t involved with any of the games people actually care about.

Bring back Minitel!

Thanks, PirateSoftware!

Windows’ market share is being nibbled to death by cats.

They were always conservative. A few years before these ads Nintendo participated in Senate hearings where they advocated for censoring the entire medium. They just had a “fellow kids” period in the early 2000s. Luckily, judging by the sales of the GameCube, most people weren’t fooled.

Still bugs me that Microsoft owns the rights to the King’s Quest series, though.

Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series.

We passed the point of diminishing returns for graphics years ago. There’s no point in keeping up with the latest hardware anymore.

Games continue to get cheaper to make as middleware improves and advancing hardware lessens the need for optimisation. If companies choose to spend more on games despite this then that’s their problem.