Tag: eurogamer
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Bethesda’s Excuse
Eurogamer’s Robert Purchase spoke with Pete Hines about their decision to pursue legal action against people reselling games. Go read Purchase’s article and come back. While I agree that it’s difficult to tell if a “sealed” copy of anything actually contains what it says, or is something that just weighs the same, I found this…
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Surprise, Shadow of the Colossus is Still Great
Shadow of the Colossus is one of my favorite games. It is from a unique moment in time before independent developers had found the ability to publish their novel ideas widely. Instead, we had this deep series of boss fights from Team Ico that turns out to work just as well today as it did…
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Nootropics Are Bullshit
Eurogamer’s Chris Bratt has a great investigative article and video on the bullshit around supplements. Specifically one that targets people playing games. It’s called GodMode and it is a “nootropic” from Scott Miller, yes the one that used to work for Apogee and 3D Realms. Here’s part of Chris’ interview with Scott, where Scott goes…
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Super NES Classic Edition Stuff
The Super NES Classic Edition is out for $80, Chris Scullion has a review of the Brit version which looks a little different externally and in the menu, but is functionally identical, to the US version: The only main problem I have with the SNES Mini is how important the Reset button on the console…
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What Would Make You Want to Upgrade Your Console?
Yours truly back in June writing during Microsoft’s E3 presentation for the Xbox One X: …it feels like Microsoft is less interested in challenging Sony with this high-end console than harvesting their hardcore Xbox fans for yet another console purchase. I don’t doubt that this console will live up to its technical promises, but it…