Every time.

Electronic Arts wordt overgenomen door samenwerkingsverband van oa Saoedisch Public Investment Fund

Megaton: EA is close to a $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Het maffe aan in de regiojournalistiek werken is dat ik ineens dingen doe als 'tot 10 uur 's avonds een raadsvergadering bijwonen', alsof ik een soort journalist ben of zo. src.fm/regionieuws/...

Ghost of Yotei 'de beste open wereld ooit'? Nah. Leegte en cliches domineren deze game. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Ja wat Eurogamer zegt dus eigenlijk. www.eurogamer.net/ghost-of-yot...

Merk dat ik om deze reden ook weinig meer heb aan game-previews van AAA-titels, die altijd volzitten met verhalen over nieuwe technische foefjes. Mijn vraag blijft altijd: maakt dit de game-ervaring daadwerkelijk beter?

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Maar goed, recensies zijn subjectief, dus voor het tegenovergestelde perspectief:

Mijn recensie van Ghost of Yotei volgt later. Maar de strekking: de creatieve rek lijkt er uit bij PlayStation. De game is vooral een reeks voorspelbare verhaalpunten, bovenop een lege open wereld, met af en toe sprankelende momenten van emotie.

from Poison Ivy #16 story: @gwillow.me line art: Marcio Takara colors: Arif Prianto letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

what movie do you consider perfect? I can't think of a single scene in Hot Fuzz that feels like fluff or doesn't pay off later on in the movie or raise a smile.

That's not nearly enough.

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

Music, specifically metal, has become quite diverse and incredibly interesting. It has been allowed to thrive away from pop culture, and now we have really neat bands like Igorrr, Battlebeast, Starset, Devin Townsend, etc., all doing different things but all doing them well.

Asimov-verfilming (verserie-ing?) 'Foundation' begon veel te langzaam in het eerste seizoen, waardoor veel kijkers afhaakten. Jammer, want het derde seizoen is spectaculaire, fascinerende scifi. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

If Only So Many Of The Writers We Need Right Now Hadn’t Lost Their Jobs - aftermath.site/tyler-robins...

Time to break out the chart

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

A meme about priorities, not judgments

finally a celebrity I know at RAW

I would die for this.

"It deserves to be more than just a game - it's a cultural touchstone" is super unfortunate phrasing here. Could've just as easily said "[Thing] deserves to be more than just TV/just a movie/just an album". Just... Life is Strange is such an interactive story. Will be tough to translate to linear.

Seeing people slowly release that staples of the Metroidvania genre are actually just repetitive busywork to give the illusion of an interesting challenge:

Prime Video's video game adaptations continue, this time with a live-action Life is Strange TV show.

Ik sprak acht mensen uit de Nederlandse entertainmentgamewereld met de vraag: you survived until 2025. Maar hoe gaat het eigenlijk? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Ik sprak acht mensen uit de Nederlandse entertainmentgamewereld met de vraag: you survived until 2025. Maar hoe gaat het eigenlijk? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Kidas CEO Says Roblox Age Verification Measures Are “Easily Bypassed” And Are “Not The Full Answer” insider-gaming.com/kidas-ceo-sa...

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled

Really glad to finally see some strong crit on this one. I enjoy Bananza a good deal, but it’s a little odd to me that it’s been elevated to an instant classic. I find its flow of levels to be kind of incoherent, which is a little surprising for a capital-N Nintendo game!

an annoying problem the games industry has is that absolutely no one wants to give a quote about anything other than the game they are currently promoting.

It wasn’t always this way, felt like we made some decent progress here until many developers started getting too much abuse online to want to bother putting themselves out there at all.

with each successive round of layoffs and buyouts, IGN staff have found themselves increasingly overworked. so now, in an effort to get laid-off colleagues rehired, they’ve resolved to do their fair share — and no more

Andor really makes The Force Awakens look so craven, repetitive, and underdeveloped.

Andor makes A New Hope look like Spaceballs.

Ik doe onderzoek naar de herkomst van een straatnaam. Ik vind een oud tijdschrift (1968) waar het in een voetnoot beschreven staat. Het antwoord is iets bits, maar dan gaat de voetnoot door en door en door en ik geloof dat de auteur ergens helemaal ontspoort...

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

It be that time of the year to make the pilgrimage #gamescom

i'm talking about her specifically

close enough WELCOME BACK FALLOUT NEW VEGAS

Fallout: New Vegas tot aan Dinky the T-Rex nagemaakt voor Fallout-de-serie? En hier dacht ik dat het niet nog meer m'n favoriete gameverfilming kon worden.

Voor NRC keek ik 'Peacemaker', het meest James Gunniaanse gedeelte van het nieuwe DC-filmuniversum. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Niets om te schamen, toch?

Might be a hot take but I don't know, I kind of feel like URL query parameters have gotten out of control