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So, which of them did blink? Either way, fucking good. Would've been pissed if the split had actually gone through.

Playstation livestream starting in a few minutes. WB Montreal has been teasing that Batman game they're supposed to be working on the past few days, so pretty good odds that it'll be showing up at this. Also hoping we'll see something new for Ghost of Tsushima.

Bioware-esque, not actually made by Bioware.

They're pretty clearly betting everything on using these exclusivity deals to hopefully supplant Steam before the mountain of Fortnite money finishes burning to the ground, and they have to start depending on the quality of their service to attract and retain customers. Considering how fucking...

Eh, they could bullshit it with some sort of "slowed aging" mutation, or change it slightly so that he's the child of a Holocaust survivor--not quite as visceral as child Magneto walking through the gates of Auschwitz, but it'll get the job done.

Looks like this game is fairly consistently scoring in the 7-8/10 range. For a company like Spiders, whose reach has always so thoroughly exceeded its grasp, that's a fucking meteoric rise. Consider this one on my list.

Actually just saw on Twitter, he's confirmed he's the writer/director on this one too.

Can't believe Deadly goddamned Premonition is getting a sequel. An announcement has never come more out of nowhere.

Really don't get why they felt they needed to rent out a theater and make a big to-do for this. It was just the next Living World season. That's it. No other substantial or surprising announcements to go along with it that warranted making the announcement more than a blog post. Whatever; I'll...

Been a while, but we got new content here. Lizardmen getting Nakai the Wanderer (with the Dread Saurian among their roster), and the Empire getting Markus Wulfhart (and bringing back the War Wagon, of all things). Lizardmen are also getting Gor-Rok as FLC, and the Empire's getting a general...

The Mongrel Mage by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Apparently book fucking 19 in the Saga of Recluse. Not a lot to say about this one; if you've read one Modesitt book, you've quite literally read them all. Still, Modesitt remains an author that for some reason I enjoy reading, in spite of having some...

With all the shit that has popped up on the internet over the years (okay, like 80% of it is just reposting the "Dracula, you fucking nerd, where's my fucking money" picture, which to this day I'm still unsure if it's an actual unaltered comic page, but still...), I may need to watch Moon...

My completely-pulled-out-of-my-ass guess would be that merchandise tied to the movies would fall under the Sony deal (for something like superheroes, not including something like merchandise in movie rights seems like it would be an absurd oversight on Sony's part), while non-movie Spidey merch...

And finally, here's actual non-cellphone gameplay from Gamescom: Making allowances for the fact that this is the tutorial, and thus the most basic form of the game possible to ease players in, the gameplay looks decent. Thor and Tony need more oomph behind their basic attacks, both in sound...

Honestly, if it hadn't been for Sunset Overdrive, I would've legitimately thought they were first party already.

Don't be crazy. Shit needs to sell in the Chinese market, otherwise what's even the point? Hell, didn't Dr Strange just dodge around Tibet to avoid pissing off the Maoists?

The announcement of Skull and Bones is the fastest I've ever gone from insanely hyped to annoyed and apathetic. "Holy shit, they're making a Pirate's Creed, they're actually doing it! Oh, it's going to be a multiplayer-focused online game? Well, it's not what I wanted, but I guess it could still...

Eh, the combat could stand to be a bit faster and more impactful (especially Thor), but it doesn't look bad. And they've clearly made some tweaks to Widow's face, and have it looking a lot better, so I'm less worried about the art side of things. Too early to make any real judgements on the...

Sanderson does get better with each subsequent book/series, but really, even his weakest work is pretty damn good, so publication order isn't a bad way to go. (Elantris>Mistborn>Wax and Wayne>Warbreaker>Stormlight) But when you get right down to it, you can do them in just about any order, with...

HoT definitely requires a shift in thinking when it comes to traversal (especially Verdant Brink), but once you get a sense for how all the parts of the zone stack on top of each other, getting around is interesting. Just made it into Auric Basin in my last play session, although I'm going to...

The first half of the movie really was loaded with a lot of high school stuff, but at least it was entertaining high school stuff, so I'm not inclined to complain. The shit with Ned and Betty was great. I also liked that Peter got to do his science nerd thing a bit with designing his suit for...

Honestly, that's kinda why I like the game so much. When you get down to it, Red Dead 2 is a semi-historical roleplaying game more so than anything else. It's slow and deliberate and immersion-focused, and doing its damndest to get you immersed in playing the role of an outlaw cowboy in the Old...

I'm back in after falling off the game years ago, and finally doing the HoT expansion. Also found out that they had implemented a mouselook mode while I was gone. Now I can finally play the game without having the right mouse button held down 95% of the time.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell By Susanna Clarke. This is another one of those books that I kept seeing pop up on the internet, and looked interesting enough to check out. It's a historical fantasy novel set in the 19th century (authors seem to really like the Napoleonic Wars for their...

It seems Robert the Bruce is all the rage nowadays. The Chris Pine one actually wasn't bad, imo, especially for a Netflix/non-theatrical film. And it had some of the most accurate costuming and prop design that I've ever seen in a medieval movie, which makes the history nerd in me extremely happy.

A major theme in Stormlight is heroes that are legitimately fucked up. Kaladin has clinical depression, Shallan has some fucked up shit in her past, and increasingly bad coping mechanisms for dealing with it, Dalinar has to deal with the fear that he's going crazy with his visions, to say...

Ultimate Alliance, Control, Ancestors, and Jedi are the ones I'm looking at on that list. Maybe also Luigi's Mansion. Death Stranding I'm honestly not sure if I want to actually play it, or just figure out what the fuck its deal is; we'll see. Of course, with my backlog, who knows how many--if...

Think party-based Diablo where you can use the D-pad to swap between your party members on the fly, and you've got the gist of it.

Breath of the Wild fucking 2!!! That's a note to end on.

Holy shit, and they are actually bringing Banjo-Kazzooie to Smash as well.

Okay, I recognize most of the characters in the Ultimate Alliance trailer, but who was Chick With Shotguns? Don't know that one.

So, basically all the Dragon Quest protagonists confirmed for Smash

Well, they said the game would be on the show floor. And apparently it'll be showing up on Dorito Pope's stream tomorrow, so we should have a better idea of what the game plays like by the end of E3. As for the world design, the talk of adding new regions pretty much nixes the idea of a true...

Time to rise this thing from its grave.

True, but this also isn't being made by SE's C-team, unlike Andromeda. I'm choosing optimism on this one.

Eh, facial models can always be touched up; look at every Netherrealm game, ever. What they're showing and saying looks good. New heroes being added for free is a nice touch.

Huh, so that "the avengers are on the west coast" line from Spider-Man was a legit hint. Cool

Here we are

Oh, if they opened with FF7, they'll be closing with Avengers. No doubt there.

So far, SE's been showing all actual gameplay footage, so I got to give them kudos for that.