@MigGui: Keaton did it because Douglas was already used. Can't have more than one person on a SAG card. Why Michael B Jordan has to use the B, cuz the basketball player did movies in the 90s. Most ...

@brianericford: Sure, it is subjective. All I was saying is that the take was something I feared. I think, too, that different reviewers across media will have different thoughts on this depending on...

@s0ldier69: Might have, but I was worried it would fall into the very traps Phil mentions. Fallout has always been about finding things, discovery, finding YOUR way. It isn't a game about telling ...

RIP. Gotta admit, it wasn't the best console ever made by far, but, when you had little kids, the WiiU was pretty fun. Would it ever by my go to console? No. But man, we had fun with it. Much m...

Just as long as "new elements" isn't "required multiplayer." Single player, CDPR. Stick to that.

I just wonder who those eight people on "other projects" pissed off.

@itsnota2mer: A bit, but man it's close. Assassin's Creed has "assassin" right there in the title. This game takes cues from "Hitman." Hitman. Cyberpunk had gigs like "Gun for hire" and "Thieve...

@what101: Even games where you don't kill "innocents" walk a fine line. How many people have we slaughtered who were just sitting there, guarding warehouses or something, waiting for their shift to ...

@mcnichoj: It doesn't have to be edgy or counterculture, it just has to be not stupid. This, you can almost hear Butthead all "Huh huh...huh huh....weed." Only it's not Butthead, it's the developers....

Sigh. Aren't we past this? Didn't this stop being funny a long, long time ago? This kind of Beavis and Butthead giggling at weed is just silly. It doesn't come across as funny or edgy, but more ...

Great read, Phil. Thanks. It's too bad that the economics of the time just can't get over chasing whatever is growing at the fastest rate. Gaming, now AI, it'll be something else later on. Even b...

@illegal_peanut: I hear you, but I don't think long DLCs are bad. Micros? Bad. Very bad. But something long is basically a semi sequel. I'm playing Phantom Liberty right now, and the amount of go...

@RSM-HQ: That's what I was thinking. Publishers overdid it on planning live service, and now the workers pay the price. There was no way the industry was going to support all the live service they...

@Sushiglutton: The internet? Wait patiently? Surely you jest.

@BIG_BOSS_927: Hey, we have a forum called "Tool wars!" No one has posted in it since 1997, but it's there!

@girlusocrazy: Yup. Been saying it for years: Nadella has never, ever been more than lukewarm on gaming, period. I think he'd be cold to gamepass, too, save for the fact it's cloud based and he love...

@USDevilDog: It's going to be hard to see there being no such thing as XBox. It's too valuable a trademark for MS to just put it out to pasture and let it fade away. You have to figure that either...

I mean, does anyone think this will hit in a weird time of year like April? If you see a game this anticipated, and a calendar year, just pencil "November" before the calendar year. If it's ready t...

@girlusocrazy: There's also the fact that MS, with the exception of XBox has never been a gizmo company. They don't make phones, TVs, consumer electronics, etc. They had a tablet once, right? That ...

@gatsbythepig: Well, I wouldn't go THAT far. MS has never been a video game company. They've been a big company that does a lot of things, one of which is games. Really, for the last ten years, Nad...