Jul 24, 2021
Time to dust off those copies of Four Swords and Crystal Chronicles
seen from China
seen from Poland
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from Germany
seen from Spain
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Maldives
seen from Maldives
seen from Maldives
seen from United Kingdom
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Sweden
seen from United States
Time to dust off those copies of Four Swords and Crystal Chronicles
Oh No, There Are Women In Battlefield V
Luke Plunkett, writing for Kotaku:
Some folks are angry that their favourite violent multiplayer shooter, which has never been based on anything approaching historical accuracy, now has historically inaccurate portrayals of women and a black man fighting—with guns!—in the Second World War. [...]
It doesn’t bother them that a randomly-created soldier with no training can jump behind the controls of a complex fighter aircraft, or expertly handle a cross-section of enemy weapons. They don’t care that the streets of European cities aren’t recreated 1:1, or that uniform details aren’t strictly adhered to, or that Battlefield’s war is fought to time limits and kill counts.
Those things are acceptable compromises. It’s a video game, and those are video game things that the Second World War just needs to accommodate with its representation in order to work. Yet introduce something as relatively harmless (it has zero impact on gameplay!) as women or black soldiers where historically there were none, and suddenly the sky is falling.
It’s almost as though opposition to a British woman holding a gun, or a black man serving in a combat role has little to do with “historical accuracy,” and everything about someone finding their current views on gender, race and society challenged in a space—the good old days—they thought was safe.
Angry right-wing nerds always find the smallest, dumbest, most offensive hill to die on. Never fails.
🎮 funtime-error
'I have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'
Aftermath has asked several developers and creatives in the video game industry how the push to AI has affected their jobs.
And that's OK
Official Adidas sneakers feature Pikachu and Squirtle Pokémon designs
Official Adidas sneakers feature Pikachu and Squirtle Pokémon designs
Adidas recently unveiled a pair of sneakers inspired by the Pokémon franchise. The Pikachu-inspired pair of Adidas Campus has an all-over print as well as an embroidered Pikachu, with hints of yellow on the heels and aglets and a Poké Ball inside the tongue. There’s also a Squirtle version coming with a similar pattern except with – you guessed it – Squirtle.
View this post on Instagram
View On WordPress
Pokémon sneakers are being made by Adidas featuring Pikachu and Squirtle
Pokémon sneakers are being made by Adidas featuring Pikachu and Squirtle
Adidas will soon be releasing a pair of sneakers based on the Pokémon. The Pikachu-inspired pair of Adidas Campus has an all-over print as well as an embroidered Pikachu, with hints of yellow on the heels and aglets and a Poké Ball inside the tongue. There’s also a Squirtle version coming with a similar pattern except with – you guessed it – Squirtle.
View this post on Instagram
View On WordPress
Pokémon sneakers are being made by Adidas
Pokémon sneakers are being made by Adidas
Adidas will soon be releasing a pair of sneakers based on the Pokémon. The Pikachu-inspired pair of Adidas Campus has an all-over print as well as an embroidered Pikachu, with hints of yellow on the heels and aglets and a Poké Ball inside the tongue. There’s also a Squirtle version coming with a similar pattern except with – you guessed it – Squirtle.
View this post on Instagram
View On WordPress
NBA 2K19 Is A Nightmarish Vision Of Our Microtransaction-Stuffed Future
Luke Plunkett, reporting for Kotaku:
NBA 2K19 is constantly begging you to spend VC. You’re asked to spend VC on Gatorade for performance boosts, on vehicles to make progression around the plodding Neighbourhood mode quicker, on shoes, on clothes. It’s relentless, in your face the moment you turn the game on, and doesn’t leave you until the second you quit (quite literally, since GET VC is right there underneath QUIT).
Putting the buy more VC button literally under the quit option is so gross.
It just gives up the charade that these microtransactions are "optional." NBA 2K19, and to lesser degrees all games with microtransactions, are designed to frustrate you to the point of quitting, just to push their in-game currency.
The microtransactions are never optional.
🎮 funtime-error