BUCKSHOT ROULETTE, a computer game by mike klubnika.
All those classified document leaks paid off
New Cryptid: Princess Zelda
Finally updated my crossover blog after like two years, this time about the namco universe, aka the UGSF-verse. Quite a rabbit hole but really fun, some of my best work on that blog if i say so myself.
I hate this industry!
These are all the ones who look interesting enough to me for me to consider buying them and trying them out. There was of course tons more but these are the ones that stood out to me.
i feel so old fashioned when i say that i collect vinyl records and cds and physical games and like ipods but i think theres something to be said about the lack of true ownership of the things we have.
Microsoft once just removed all the e-book from people's libraries bought through their stores.
Games get delisted all the time through licensing issues, movies and tv show jump between a dozen different streaming services all the time
they are convenient and i use them myself but i think having everything i own be digital would feel wrong to me. i would experience everything the same but i would own nothing.
theres also something to be said about the physical connection to a thing, the way a book feels, the way a cd spins, the way you click through your mp3 player, its tactile and allows us to just ground ourselves in the moment.
None of this means i judge people who like ebooks or digital games or whatever i get it, i find it convenient myself, i have a kindle. But i think its good to keep in mind and think about as we dive into this ever more digitized future
Remember how when Microsoft bought Bethesda i said fine whatever but made a whole rant about how the game industry, like the movie industry was becoming more consolidated and how xbox taking out one of the main third party AAA game companies was a bad thing because it creates an oligopoly.
A few years ago the biggest third party AAA publishers were Take Two, Activision Blizzard, Zenimax/Bethesda, Ubisoft, CD Projekt Red, Koei Tecmo, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Capcom. The industry was largely these 9 companies, which were 8 after the zenimax purchase.
Xbox just bought ActivisionBlizzard which brings it down to 7 companies.
This is bad. This is the same thing we were seeing with Disney and its consolidation of the media and they were able to do it because they had bigger checkbook advantage.
Microsoft has the biggest checkbook outside of maybe Tencent. While console war idiots will either get angry or rejoice depending on which box they play on this kind of consolidation isnt good
but this was always the endpoint of perpetual growth driven late stage capitalism where eventually companies will just dominate entire markets by force.
I'm not happy about this.
Nintendo Switch exclusives confirmed for 2022 so far
so i was on youtube when this popped up in my recommendations
its a memey video of rayman singing sex bomb and its funny but i enjoyed the cover and found out this is a cover of Sex Bomb by german singer Max Raabe
his voice man, idk why his singing makes me swoon but its definitely worth a listen its one of the best covers of this song.
he has other covers he’s made and he’s been a singer with the Palast orchestra for years now
This has been a Max Raabe appreciation post
