Specifically worth pointing out the research and refinement of the skinner boxes in mobile games today is a continuous and ongoing process, with revenue also being continuous and ongoing. Any games and moral panic of 80s to 2000s were about products that didn’t change after release and were one-time only purchases.

Modern mobile games vs. shareware are incomparable in terms of harm they could do, real or perceived.

Patel: “I’ll get right on it, boss.”

Also Saddam Hussein for scale

This is highly credible.

Sounds like hypertension, not hypotension.

Given the rapid deterioration of Windows/Microsoft, I 100% agree. I’ll be trying to install on my Ally this weekend.

It’s somewhat odd that the two top-down Zelda games on Switch are getting free Switch 2 upgrades, while Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom will require you to purchase the respective upgrades.

How is it odd that Nintendo wants every dollar they can reasonably make off of us?

Is this a game? Seems more like a polling platform. Where’s the fun?

Reminds me of when people share pictures of fast food ads versus the actual food you get served.

Nintendo is doing it and no one can afford new PC graphics cards, so let’s bleed 'em like stuck pigs.

What if we took a beloved game and made it Fortnite?

This kitty has claws.

Also some of the most odious DRM iirc. Not to mention their dalliance with Blockchain Bitcoin NFT whatever.

Ah, like Infrastructure Week 2.0

I know the game is playing on nostalgia, but heck yeah old Doritos!

I’m sure the C Suite feels a great sense of Pride and Accomplishment.

While i was on my way out my friend fell on me and killed us both.

I don’t think I’d ever play this game, but this is tempting me to give it a shot.

The necktie, but I think it would look better just slightly larger.

Ser Pounce-alot

It’s nice to see gaming covered in NYT at all. The article generally rings hollow to me. I’m not an industry expert, but:

• It’s easy to be profitable when you’re just making a sandbox and your players make the games, but at that point are you a game developer? (Roblox)
• High end graphics cards have become so expensive that people can’t afford gaming with good graphics
• AAA developers aren’t optimizing games as well as they used to, so only high end hardware would even run them
• AAA is more focused on loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes, and cinematics all wrapped up in great visuals. That’s at the expense of innovative gameplay and interesting stories. Making the graphics worse won’t get execs to greenlight better games, just uglier ones. And they’ll still be $70.
• Even when games are huge successes and profitable, studios are getting bought and shut down (EA, Microsoft, Sony?), so it’s hard to say the corps are hurting.