Nintendo, you need to stop suing fan games
Yet another Nintendo fan game has been shut down by the grim spectre of lawsuits. Kaze Emanuar, who is well known in the modding community, had been making a title…
Op Ed
Why I’m burnt out with Western games
Western gaming is sick. Rather than focusing on unique and engaging experiences, we've now hit a brick wall of stagnation. One where fun takes a backseat to tired political dogmas…
$70 for next gen games is just greed
It must be tough out there to be a Triple A game publisher. Making games has gotten soooo much more expensive in the past decade. Everything else has gone up…
What’s Epic’s real game with Apple?
Epic continues to escalate their fight with Apple. This week, they joined the Coalition for App Fairness. A group of companies and organizations who seek to "preserve consumer choice and…
The great 2020 console pre-launch disaster
Well, I was right. Back in August, I made the case for delaying next gen consoles until 2021. Due to concerns over low stock, I predicted that launching this year…
Why I would never do new media as a full time job
Well, it's been a while since I've complained about YouTube, so let's see what BS they've been up to lately. Well, it seems they've given MxR Plays a strike for…
The game buyer’s bill of rights
Over the past few years, I've become greatly concerned by what I'm seeing happening in the games industry, and what that means for consumers. This erosion of trust and good…
The games industry has a major consumer trust problem
You've probably heard the whole kerfuffle about Doom Eternal this past week. id Software released a surprise update to the game that included the kernel ("ring 0") level Denuvo Anti-Cheat…
Nintendo’s save game backup policy is anti-consumer
Nintendo dropped Switch Firmware 10.0.0 yesterday. It adds a whole slew of cool new features, like button mapping and the ability to move game data from the internal storage to…
Franchises have to respect the fans, or why Star Wars sucks now
The Rise of Skywalker, the "final" (for real this time) chapter in the Star Wars saga, just came out. I haven't seen it yet, but from what I've heard, it's…