Robert Ramnauth, Nightmare Mode: “Characters that Count”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do it right. Shadow of the Colossus came out eight years ago, and Robert has absolutely zero interest in spoiling it for anyone who either hasn’t played it yet or hasn’t finished it. As it should be. Nicely done, Robert.
MCV says they have informants from both Sony and Microsoft stating that both companies are going to reveal their next consoles during E3 2012.
Just stop for a second; think before you write. Even if you do have exclusive information on consoles that are due to be announced, companies can pull back their announcements at any time if they see it isn’t feasible for the corporation, making you–as a source–look illegitimate for now-untrue rumors.
—QUOTED FOR TRUTH - WouldYouKindly.com, Drew Bergmark: Rumors: Don’t Believe the Hype [January 10th, 2012]
This man knows what he’s talking about.
This is literally everything you need to know about the VGAs. Anything else is just masturbatory.
NOT SHIT: Jim Sterling there, talking fucking sense.
Honest to Glod, people, this isn’t rocket science. If you lower the price barrier, more people can buy your product and the more money you can make. This should not be a difficult concept for the industry to grasp.
Well that’s a turn-up for the books, isn’t it? I’ve heard rumours that Kotaku Australia is, on occasion, quite tolerable. If they’re prepared to attack their partner sites, they’ve just climbed a notch or two on the Respect-O-Meter.
Thanks to bulleye4 on Twitter for the link.
QUOTED FOR TRUTH - Ars Technica / Opposable Thumbs, Ben Kuchera: Developer calls accurate Borderlands 2 report “shoddy journalism” [August 3rd, 2011]
When Kuchera writes stuff like this it makes me want to be a better man. It really does.
So it’s been several years now where there haven’t been any productive new wells for Activision. Oh, and look what’s happened: a huge well has suddenly run dry.
Guitar Hero.
In the interview, [Bobby] Kotick claims that Guitar Hero died because it was neglected in favor of D.J. Hero—spit take—but it actually died because it was being pumped 24x7x365. It was overproduced. It’s dry.
No problem. Just take some of the other new wells that have been discovered—oh, shit. There are no new wells.
See? Of course he’s going back to the Guitar Hero well, so to speak. Of course he’s going to try to pump more oil out of that location. There are no wells to replace it.
— QUOTED FOR TRUTH - Dubious Quality, Bill Harris: The Self-Evaluated Genius Of Bobby Kotick [July 25th, 2011]NOT SHIT: Destructoid, Jim Sterling: The Duke Delusion: Why Duke Nukem isn’t a parody [June 16th, 2011]
This is a wonderful breakdown of the character of Duke Nukem and why he cannot possibly be described as parody or satire, ignoring the paragraph where Jim attempts to tell use what perfect parody should be and offers his own work as an example.
I won’t comment on the generally bad writing in the review itself, which includes wonderful turns of phrase like “Speaking of the voice-acting, I can’t say enough bad about it”, but for High Voltage staffers to think it’s okay to attack the reviewer’s novel (which I haven’t read, but now really, really want to) is reprehensible.
I’d already decided to pass on Conduit 2, but now I think I’ll go out and buy a pre-owned copy out of spite. Hell, maybe I’ll even write a review of it.
A number of outlets have reported that up to 30% of American internet traffic is people watching TV shows and movies via Netflix’ “Watch Instantly” streaming service, however there’s a huge difference between what they’re reporting and what the actual information is.
From Bruce Upbin’s blog on Forbes:
[…] Netflix is small part of overall Internet traffic but a big part of last-mile traffic. Netflix saves money and time and offers higher quality streaming by replicating and caching its content at data centers across the U.S. (and now Canada) to be as close to its customers as possible. That episode of Battlestar Galactica you watched last night did not travel across the entire Internet backbone from Reed Hastings’ office to your living room. It probably only traveled a few miles or so. Netflix tries to minimize its presence on the true Internet backbone.
I guess this is what happens when you don’t read the reports properly, eh?
