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    They fired the Escapist's editor, and the video team, Yahtzee resigns

    Back in the day, I was a paying member, and it exploded so I canceled my stuff. They came back, and I got a YouTube subscription. I guess I'll be canceling yet again. Too bad it's not enough to matter in the end. I won't be buying that for a dollar anymore.
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    WoW Season of Mastery Genetic Algorithm

    The image is of the positions of each quest connected together. Red lines are for when the character is less than level 20, green is for less than 40, and blue is for less than 60. There is a white line that never shows up because it's for level 60. Any quests after 60 should be quickly...
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    WoW Season of Mastery Genetic Algorithm

    With all the drama at Blizzard, this probably wasn't the best time to resurrect some code to do a traveling salesman problem with. So what is a short path through all the Classic quests given the XP boost for Season of Mastery? How does that path change based on class quests? Below is the...
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    Zenimax is Being Sued Over the Use of "The Wanderer" in Fallout 4 Ads

    He's going to have to prove that he objected to it two years ago. He'd also have to prove he had no idea what Fallout even was, and was somehow unable to take the time to find out. How hard is it to prove that he objected to it but couldn't be bothered to look it up in 2015? Unless he's been...
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    Nintendo is Making a Full Pokemon RPG for the Switch

    Maybe my faux ban on Pokemon will finally be lifted. It's not that I hate Pokemon but I don't really play handhelds. I'm the guy who bought a GBA adapter for my Game Cube so that I could play Phantasy Star. Though I'm a bit resentful this is going to cause me to buy a Switch for my Wife, a...
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    Metroid Prime 4 Announced for Nintendo Switch

    I'll buy 1, 2, and 3 are Prime but 4 is definitely not prime. Fortunately that 4 is just a typo. 4 was Other M and thus not Prime. 5 is Prime.
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    Zero Punctuation: Persona 5

    Did I jump realities again? Did Yatchee just give a good review to a JRPG? Did he just like it? Zelda was the First sign of the Apocalypse, and Persona 5 is the second, what next? It doesn't help that Syria and North Korea seem to be pushing non-gaming news in that direction either. Where is...
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    There's Not Much Role-Playing in Role-Playing Games These Days

    There isn't a good way to implement the kind of role-playing games that having meaningful role-play would work. At this point in time Video Games are stuck on one side of the Role Playing Game forest. Lead-by-the-Nose is all there is. When Video Games venture outside of Lead by the Nose, you get...
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    GameStop Confirms Possible Breach Involving Stolen Credit Card Info

    It'd be good to know if I were impacted or not. I've ordered in the past but in the recent past its mostly been in-store. I checked my online accounts order history, and it's blank. I don't know what the time frame is, but that's wrong if it's for the life of the account. I went to check saved...
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    Joss Whedon to Direct Batgirl Movie

    A lot of people didn't think they'd mess up an Animated Batman movie, or The Killing Joke. Before I put any faith in WB or Joss, I want to know more about what they intend to do. Are they going to double down on the weird mistakes of The Killing Joke? Are they going to screw it up like Cat...
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    Zero Punctuation: Horizon Zero Dawn

    Interesting. I'm still unsure if I should get Horizon but this review is better than anything else I've read about it that going on and on about political nonsense and nothing about the game. Side note: I got for my wife for [insert whatever holiday you think yesterday was] that "Will Save...
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    Bethesda has Three New Games in the Works, Two of Which are Apparently Huge

    To me, it seems the point of redoing Skyrim was to get the engine on the Modern systems so they'll know what they can do. No sense in making the game and finding out later that it can't work out as planned due to an unforeseen limitation. One game is Elder Scrolls related, and there is no doubt...
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    Zero Punctuation: Dishonored 2

    I can't help but feel the game would be longer and more satisfying if it only had one main character. Corvo should just die in the opening act or just be presumed dead. He should be well into his 40's or 50's at a minimum. I can only suspend belief so far until elderly Spiderman is running...
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    Zenimax Amends Oculus Lawsuit To Include Allegations of IP Theft by John Carmack

    Well you're not a programmer. The Virtues of a Programmer are Lazy, Impatient , and Full of Hubris. Stealing embodies all of those traits. Who wants to write new code for something that was done once already? If you don't believe me that those are the attributes of a programmer just go...
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    No, Inafune Did Not Say "It's Better Than Nothing" - UPDATE

    Given the marketing this shows what Publishers are intended for. An ad campaign that appears to alienate a portion of its audience. The ad strikes as if it were made by a non-professional PR firm, or at least not a Video Game Publisher PR Firm focusing on Anime-ish titles. If this were a Sports...