PlayStation has acquired 10 studios since 2019. Three of them are now closed. Half of them have yet to or never got a chance to ship a game Many have been hit with layoffs.

This is one heck of a thorough accounting of this guy.

Pretty (happily) surprised Dancey was canned from AEG. Seems like these guys mostly just get told to go into hiding for a few months until their dumbass statements blow over.

Oh hey, a board game that I backed on Gamefound arrived today, despite commenters sounding off about too few progress updates and asking “is this dead?” and “was this a scam?” for a couple of months. All I had to do was shut up and wait!

I keep thinking about that awful AI ad with Matthew Broderick and trying to figure out who it is aimed at.

If your legislation to stop "voter fraud" prevents 21 million legitimate voters from voting, your legislation itself is voter fraud.

f me, happened again

Mario Tennis Fever is so weird, and not really in a good or interesting way.

Been a good weekend. Played all of these. Did multiple games of Daybreak, upping the difficulty each time. #boardgames

jfc

I know it’s for eight year olds, but the adventure mode for Mario Tennis Fever is so tedious. Two hours to get through the “learn to play” stuff.

Nintendo should give everyone $10 eShop credit per game owned with Talking Flower in it.

On Baby Steps: www.arcadence.com/fallson/

Folks are fighting about "metroidvania" again, and the thing is as soon as you use terms like that and "roguelike" and other inside basebally stuff, you have conceded that you're only interested in talking to existing fans. Which is fine.

I use a fever racket: very clever, brilliant strategy, crowdpleasing Opponent uses a fever racket: what is this cheating bs, complete garbage, wtf can’t even see

Konami has come so far since E3 2014.

Video game presentations continually overestimate my interest in "developing my own playstyle."

didn't know Pragmata takes place in PlayStation Home

Good hilarious read. Somebody starts a thread asserting that many people see parallels to the gen-x-can't-get-over-it movie The Dark Crystal in the board game Root, asks about other parallels. A weirdo replies with a gigantic AI copy/paste, and keeps digging deeper when people say it's not useful.

That Resident Evil Switch Pro Controller is a new low in deco’d controllers. An unreadable “newspaper” that doesn’t even make sense in-universe? The game’s logo partially covered by the Switch 2 logo? Back to design school, all of you.

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

Going to make a leap here that - aside from the revolting, despicable centrism - much of this was akin to why the game awards has those streamer personality categories: free advertising.

lowest price ever *so far*

how’s geoff taking it

ReLooted is only $15??? Well sure I’ll pick that up.

After years of Yakuza fans (myself included) acting like it's a series in danger despite getting a new release every year, Yakuza/Like a Dragon is finally successful enough to actually stink, make terrible decisions, and should go away.

I wrote a really gushing review of this one ten years ago. I doubt my prose still holds up, but I bet the game does.

Bad Bunny's performance was very Puerto Rican and also very, very, VERY East Coast. As Kendrick's performance was both Black and West Coast. These people are mad at distinctly American performances because they don't like the color of the box the gift came in.

The movement to remove voice actor who has admitted to sexual assault has Yakuza fans at their breaking point: aftermath.site/yakuza-kiwami-...

The whitest pundit class in the US is writing "it wasn't political! :)" takes because they did not see a Trump-shaped piñata, but we're probably only a few hours away from "he was sending SECRET MESSAGES" articles.

Synced up my Hitman progress from PlayStation to Steam and now it’s just been seven minutes of achievement notifications.

So when Tommy and Timmy talk, do you think they say the same thing simultaneously but the one is a beat late, or do you think only one says the sentence and the other just pops on to emphasize the last word.

Always a weird Venn diagram thing going on the Board Game Geek forums with Guys Who Are Concerned About Card Back Printings Not Identically Matching Across Expansions and Guys Who Sleeve Every Card. I wish these two groups could come together and work it out.

Horizon Hunters Gathering looks neat, but I have no interest in multiplayer Monster Hunter stuff. Maybe I'll do the story single player? It already looks like they're aiming for one of those "game that's a part time job" things. The preview trailer is hilariously Dreamsworksy.

"Can you/are you willing to operate within the limits set by the plain text of the constitution," obviously not, so the solution is very clear

Always wild to watch board game Kickstarter commenters trying to negotiate a discount with the creators. (See the current Final Girl Kickstarter.) jesus christ just pay it or don't.

I’m re-watching and getting caught up with On Cinema because I’m going to see their live show, and I’ve said this before, but it maps *so well* to video game dork fandoms.

Utter chaos in the Kickstarter comments for Final Girl Series 4, mainly because they already released some of the material for S4, and folks are all over the place as to what they already bought and what is included in the Kickstarter tiers/add-ons without double-buying.

Part of the core conceit of Batwheels is that the people of Gotham assume Batman is always driving these vehicles around and just never gets out of them.

MST3K suddenly going “we’re bringing back the old heads (who never really went away) to reinvigorate the brand” is kind of a red flag for me.

I had to re-watch the Animal Crossing 3.0 video, because all I've seen is the hotel, Lego items and the new amiibo-unlocked characters, and I remembered the presentation being a lot longer than that.

Just baffling how company after company continues to step on this rake, just to save paying an actual artist.

This is an amazing documentary/investigation. Really great seeing Mr Soriano tell his stories. And when Kerplunk comes up, note that you can buy one that’s five feet tall.

This must drive the super-lore-invested Star Wars fans up the wall.

Playing some Cursed Menagerie this morning since I printed up some extra components. #boardgames

LRP inspired by the thing going around from the guy whose social headline post sounds like he's cheering the awful AI thing that let him make crappy Nintendo games, but his actual piece starts out by saying it's crappy, but still spends most of the piece making it sound like he's enjoying it.

It is becoming impossible to distinguish between sarcastic criticisms of terrible A.I. and genuine praise of terrible A.I. so please, for the love of God: STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I. TO CREATE AWFUL THINGS JUST TO POINT AT THEM AND LAUGH AT HOW AWFUL THEY ARE.

It took 12 years, but they were telling the truth. www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/37387/n...

just read a post about the Root board game where the guy is sort of mad that the birds do not fly

Put together a real first class ball club tonight (did not win.) Got Bat Flip Dynasty when @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social was re-homing some board games!