Split-screen and LAN in addition to online. You love to see it. Split-screen in racing games is so rare anymore, as are racing games where you’re not driving some semi-realistic approximations of real world cars. It’s nice to see devs stepping up to fill in that gap.

If you say it too loudly, Tim Sweeney will get it pulled.

They’re not laundering money. They’re diversifying their portfolio, because oil prints money now, but they can tell that it won’t forever.

Even the Bethesda Fallout games are pretty damn good, and if you want a modern version of the classic games, there’s Wasteland.

Nintendo drip feeds three more GBA games for a service where you can only rent them and not buy them legally.

The multiverse thing seemed at odds with Bethesda’s insistence on being able to do every faction quest in the same playthrough; it was the perfect opportunity to lean into changing the world state and still allow you to do everything by making that first playthrough much shorter. I think a lot of us had issues with the game that were very much unable to be fixed by mods.

Even if they did, those inspired games can get lost and fail to find their audience in the sea of games that are fine.

I don’t have numbers on this, but I’ll bet the percentages on mobile studios struggling financially are even worse.

Plus, there may be too many games, but I’ll put an asterisk on there that there are too many long games. When so much of it is designed to keep you coming back to this one particular game over and over again, there’s less room in your life for other games that you otherwise would have been willing to buy. I’ve got a list of 14 games that came out this year or have release dates this year that I’m interested in getting around to still, on top of the 8 games that I’ve already started or finished, plus another 8 that are expected to come out this year but don’t have release dates yet…and I’m still going to spend a few hundred hours across three different fighting games that I’ve been playing for years.

Usually, if you’re looking at a list of games on a schedule for a fighting game major, they’re shortened down to 4 characters or fewer, so that was probably also under consideration when naming it.

Oh, the name is just about universally disliked. That said, I worked as a contractor on a fighting game in the past few years, and I was in the discussion when the game was named. It’s hard. I can guess what the criteria was for 2XKO when they named it, and I’ll bet it had something to do with conveying the rules and the fact that it’s two-player teams.

You might still but in 2XKO instead.

People complaining about Fitzroy or racism commentary in BioShock Infinite missed the actual point of the story. I know a YouTuber who complained that you couldn’t aim the baseball, and he super missed the actual point of the story.

Mass Effect 3’s ending was totally fine the first time, especially since its ending wasn’t reduced down to a choice between three things; the entire 25-30 hours prior to that were you wrapping up all of the series plot threads, and they all compose the ending.

Disco Elysium is too info dump-y to be held up as some gold standard of writing, and every character was such an exhaustively shitty person that I didn’t feel much like finishing it.

People who say Hades is a great roguelike have only played one.

If they’re going to be successful turning this brand into a cross media property, hopefully they’re sticking to the dark humor and satire.

Maybe before an Activision acquisition and the implosion of the console business model.

Eh, this is a case of them offering a better deal than actually ever made sense, because they expected the volume of subscribers to make up for it, but that never manifested.

I’m not sure if you live in NYC, but there will typically be a courtyard next to big apartment buildings, often home for a trash area for the entire complex, among other things.

It’s also suspected that Yuzu was not “clean room” reversed engineered and built on code that they shouldn’t have had access to, which will allow Nintendo to pull down any fork of Yuzu but not Ryujinx.

Absolutely not correct.

Feel free to price out the build that beats these things by a wide margin.

All of which you can run on an ATX…?

Try carrying around a dozen ATX machines while I carry around a dozen of these. You’ll see why TOs prefer the smaller, lighter machine.

This is not complicated.

It sure isn’t.

I suspect Australia is responsible for Streets of Rogue changing “cocaine” into “sugar” as well, but I know Japan doesn’t allow things like beheadings in their games, which I thought was part of that DLC.

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What’s cool about spending ridiculous amounts of money on needlessly small products?

$550 is ridiculous? You’re not getting much more power in an ATX build if you’re only filling a 1080p display anyway.

Like Minesweeper tournaments?

Skullgirls, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R, basically anything retro and emulated, Puyo Puyo. Take your pick. This thing can run Street Fighter 6, and let me tell you how many problems there are with running it on a PS5, even if it outputs a better image…Sony really made things harder for everyone.

Because it’s doing a tenth as much work.

Exactly! Now you’re getting it!

And also, most game-playing time worldwide is spent on games that are over ten years old and don’t need a lot of power. If you want the form factor more than power that you don’t need, you may as well lower your energy bill and the amount of space this thing takes up in your home.