This is hilarious actually because though I rarely travel, the last time I did recently I brought my Switch with me… and didn’t even play it lol. So I guess you got me there
I guess for me it’s the cowardliness of it. The local library network doesn’t make me come into the library for them to be able to lend me a digital licence to read an e-book or whatever. So the requirement that I “pair” my “Switch account” to anothers over a local wi-fi network is purely an arbitrary one meant to restrict the process, likely out of some shareholder brained anxiety that digital lending will mean lower sales (citation needed) so it needs to be restricted to not lower sales too much (citation needed)
It’s really only a benefit for a roommate or family situation. The convoluted stuff we used to do to share digital files over Covid was so annoying lol.
neat idea for people interested in flight simming but (quite reasonably) don’t want to spend $$$ + physical space for yoke + throttle + rudder pedals etc
Designed by Honeycomb Aeronautical guy so seems likely to be a solid product imo
Didn’t really catch my eye at first but really digging the Annihilation / Control / Stalker thing they’re doing here with the story and art direction. The no map, organic exploration stuff sounds potentially super engaging. Could be the one to make me finally upgrade.
An expose on renowned gigaloser and right wing culture war grifter baron Mark Kern aka “Grummz” alleges, exceedingly credibly, that Kern has been running a pornographic catfight fetish website under a constructed lesbian persona, with fancy cameras potentially purchased using funds embezzled from unrelated crowdfunding campaigns. May have also committed tax fraud in the process
Earlier this week, Namco released a patch for Tekken 8 that, among other things, gave the character Jack-8 an attack reminiscent of Hugo’s clap from Third Strike.
The new move proved to be extremely useful. One user described it as “he’s doing a jab string into being +8”.
Seemingly, Namco was unaware of the move’s power, as footage of people getting rocked by the clap soon flooded the internet. In just a few days, the problem had grown large enough for Namco to address it publicly and announce an emergency patch coming some time in April. This patch, among other things, directly addresses Jack’s clap (which they have named Make Some Noise).
This has been an installment of “Some Stuff I Heard”.
Also, c’mon SNK, if you’re gonna pull a series of dumbass moves like this, just make a Saudi royal family’s favourite lads team in the next King of Fighters game. At this point City of Wolves is just looking like a vanity project. Oh well it’s not like I was going to play it anyway!
This looks awesome. I’m glad the industry is coming back around to rewarding exploration. First option I changed in Tears of the Kingdom was turning off the minimap and, if the world is designed well enough, it’s such a better way to play (for me). I hate staring at minimaps and way points instead of the world.
Also I don’t follow or enjoy fighting games. Could someone remind me what’s up with SNK these days? Is it a Saudi owner? I vaguely recall Brandon talking about it on the show. There must be more because I thought lots of games had major Saudi investment?
They’ve been owned by the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation-- so essentially the Saudi royal family-- for the last several years. I’m an extremely lapsed SNK fan, but I think it’s just that the Saudis holding the leash looks particular overt in this case. But yeah I’m pretty sure a bunch of companies are in a similar boat. Still, it was pretty wild to see SNK trending on Bluesky today, for all the wrong reasons!
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