It's truly insane to put out an unfinished profuct and ask reviewers to hold off in their thoughts. You managed to get microtransactions in there at launch...
(It's a live service game that didn't offer pre-release play. Our thoughts are coming sooner rather than later.)
I didn't bother reviewing Scott Pilgrim EX because it's very mid.
Maybe better with a friend, but I wasn't feeling it.
Reddit post titled "Australian “new” Nintendo Switch games aren’t factory sealed — confirmed by Nintendo" Post content - I’m an Australian collector and recently contacted Nintendo Australia about something I’d noticed: brand new Nintendo Switch games sold here often don’t come factory shrink-wrapped, unlike the same titles in the US, Europe and Japan. NSW Fair Trading followed up with Nintendo on my behalf, and Nintendo confirmed that games assembled locally are intentionally not shrink-wrapped. They consider it a commercial decision. The cartridges are unused — so this isn’t about defects — but from a collecting standpoint it means Australian retail copies are visually indistinguishable from opened/pre-owned copies. For collectors, factory sealing is usually part of condition grading, authenticity, and long-term value. I’m curious how others here would view this: Does “new” still mean new if it isn’t factory sealed? Would you treat unsealed retail stock differently in your collection? Does this affect how you’d value Australian copies vs overseas ones? Happy to share the Fair Trading correspondence if anyone wants to see it.
So much free time, none of it spent touching grass
How long do you think Marathon will last?
Made it to Scream 7. Germain nails it.
Huge franchise fan here. That said, this is all so mid while avoiding the Scream 6 of it all.
Spoilers, obvs.
I really, really dislike when a publisher provides you access for a preview and then revokes that access for a review. I guess they got what they wanted out of us.
We're Metacritic, OpenCritic, and The Game Awards voting jury. We need this access for so many practical reasons.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Make sure to keep sucking the fun out of literally everything, mate.
No Pokopia review from us as we're not getting pre-release code (also, this is why we didn't bother with that recent direct).
It's a shame that The Pokemon Company has such a small pre-release list.
OMFG, I'm so glad we can all talk about #ResidentEvilRequiem's Final Puzzle now.
WTF?
Two great minds with some great thoughts.
Requiem is fantastic!
I adore Alex and I'm always so excited to be able to work with him on a shared passion.
We'll always have London X019.
Thank you for everything!
I dunno about you guys, but I'm so pleased that the former COO of *checks notes* Instacart is now driving the good ship Xbox.
I am so bloody sick of writing about layoffs and studio closures, week after week, sometimes day after day. Sometimes, multiple times in a day.
I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us)
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
Aaaaand here are my thoughts on #AcrosstheUnknown. :)
A fantastic review from Jam -- we wrote our reviews completely independently, but ended up sharing many thoughts and feelings about the 'what if' sim!
This IP is in good hands. :)
Thanks so much to @thomasthecat.bsky.social for the chat, and you can find the full interview over on @trekmovie.bsky.social (it's linked in the article below too).
More from me on this week's #StarTrekVoyager game -- link to the full @trekmovie.bsky.social article is in this story. 🖖
In case that news was a shock, she's got two years at minimum, so we're okay.
My wedding ring is just an item, so that's fine too if it doesn't turn up. It just sucks.
I've been drinking way too much since my Mom was diagosed with terminal cancer and I uprooted my life to go be with them in Canada for 8 weeks, so I've done something about that for the last fortnight.
The universe's response? Make me so skinny that my wedding ring has fallen off somewhere. :S
And pulling double duty on this over on @trekmovie.bsky.social, of course! 🖖
I've captured the opening so you can hear McNeill in action if you're unable/not wanting to play through the demo again. :)
Maaaan, I've only N64ed the once but my entire (semi-)career is because of RE2 on PlayStation. ♥️♥️
I love how the discount shifts because of that!
Right there with you :)
I snapped this up for the three games I didn't already own on Steam.
(Would it have killed Capcom to call the new games Resident Evil 8 Village and Resident Evil 9 Reqiuem?!?)
Never doubted it for an instant.
