I love the nicknames!

Whopsie, yes, my bad. The two always get mixed in my mind.

About the LGBTQ part: she was working at EA when she transitioned, and she recounted acceptance and support for trans people was codified in her workplace, in a time when transitioning often meant discrimination, rejection and even job loss.

People don’t always remember that EA were the “good guys” before they made bank with Sims and CoD.

Her hour long speech about how 3DO Doom came to be is legendary. If you don’t have the time to listen to it in its entirety, I recommend StopSkeletonsFromFighting’s summary.

I put these links separately from the main post because, although many people remember her for this story, she was a legend who worked on many other games and deserves to be remembered for other, much greater accomplishments.

Do we know who was to blame for that? Last I heard, the publisher and the developers were pointing fingers at each other.

Is that still the only modern day gameplay segment of the entire franchise?

Kind of wild that they never revisited the idea.

Oh, absolutely. Which is why I avoid popular social media: you just end up drowning in AI/botted content.

I love how so many people on Reddit are acting like this is a complete shock. That site has been a cesspool of bots and targeted ads for years now, people still believed they were having real conversations with humans? I’d be surprised if legit content was higher than 50%.

If you like Max Payne, I also recommend Stranglehold. It’s a canonical sequel to John Woo’s Hard Boiled, and it’s a lot of fun, albeit on the short side.

That’s a nostalgic pic.

I love GoG, but I wish it stopped getting games so late that, by the time they release on it, I’ve already bought them on two competing platforms.

Aside from that, this is a solid release. RE1make is one of the best horror games ever made: I was scared shitless even on my third playthrough. Highly recommended if you want a good game for Halloween night.

I signed this petition. I’ve also signed other petitions over the years, I regularly donate to WWF and do other activities that I deem worthy of my time and money.

Caring about games preservation doesn’t mean that I only care about games preservation.

Also, why is it that games preservation is a first world problem, but “stop putting ads everywhere” isn’t? Where do you draw the line?

Journalism at large is dangerously close to dying. People favour free click- and rage-bait headlines on Facebook over quality journalism. The latter can’t compete because quality costs money, while cheap quality articles oversaturate the market. AI only exacerbated the issue.

I suppose it depends heavily on nostalgia.

I have no attachment to Nintendo brands nor Mario Kart in particular. My sister bought a Mario Kart Wii game a few years back and I didn’t care much for it. Having grown up with CTR on PS1, and Spyro and Crash as platformers, I immensely enjoyed the remake.

I like how the kart handles, and the turbo mechanic is a lot of fun and has a lot of depth. But I suppose that MK fans have other things they enjoy from their franchise.

Nintendo can’t catch a breath, huh. This is what, the third big data breach in the last five or so years?

I’ve never played them myself, but I’ve seen some mods that completely overhaul the game.

That being said, I would recommend playing the vanilla experience first, with an HD mod if you’d like.

Freelancer is still the best of its genre, IMO.

It’s abandonware, so you can download it for free, and the community has released a ton of mods over the years.

I remember when people were so excited for the ABK acquisition. They really believed that MS was going to offer all the catalogue for cheap on their subscription service day one, and that Xbox would end up winning the console war.

a game with an Italian plumber stomping on turtles.

Perchance.

They’ll almost certainly sell these bonus levels as a DLC when they actually release. Don’t get caught up in FOMO.