Mister Jack

Day one buy. DAY ONE BUY!

I think Aggretsuko season 3 actually made me depressed. God damn, a Sanrio anime about anthropomorphic office workers isn't supposed to get this real.

The worst part is that Gotham Knights is another Destiny clone. I am so sick of this Destiny crap.

It does need more levels but it just came out so I'm gonna cut it a little slack. They've already added one new game type since they launched and I'm sure they'll be adding more on a regular basis. If it stays this popular we might be lucky enough to end up with 100 or more minigames when all is said and done. Speaking of Fall Guys, it looks a bunch of corporate brands are desperately trying to get their own Fall Guy skin in the game, including the likes of Wal-Mart. The developers decided to capitalize on this by holding an auction for the right to a branded skin. Whatever company or individual (but definitely company) has the highest bid gets to be promoted in the game and the developers will give the proceeds to charity. Pretty admirable move if you ask me.

Also, since Apple is throwing Epic off the whole app store and terminating their licenses, that could potentially jeopardize anyone who made a game using the unreal engine. Lots and lots of small developers who did not want to be drawn into this fight, and I must reiterate that this is because Epic was not satisfied with the billions of dollars they were already making. They wanted more billions. Anyone who believes that Tim Sweeney is doing this for your benefit is completely naive. So fuck Apple, fuck Epic, and fuck Fortnite.

Also this lawsuit seems like a foregone conclusion. Epic willingly and knowingly broke the terms of their agreements with these companies in order to...what? Force a lower rate? Force them to open up their platforms? Either way, they agreed to give Apple 30%, made billions off of it, and only now have decided they don't want to do it anymore. As much as I hate Apple, they're well within their rights to take down the app. But hey, I'm not a lawyer. Maybe the actual lawyer here has some insight?

Yeah, I've heard about it. Gosh I just don't know who to root for because I care about both sides so much.

Ghost of Tsushima 4 player co-op mode!

I have my reservations about Harris as a person but purely from a campaigning standpoint I have to admit she was a pretty shrewd pick. Trump, being Trump, is not going to be able to hit back on her without looking like a huge racist or sexist because he has never heard of subtlety. Which, I mean, he is, but apparently there are still people in this country who haven't made up their minds on that yet for some reason.

No wonder it looked so half-assed. They're gonna have to pull a seriously huge rabbit out of their hat to salvage this game.

I wouldn't be surprised if they planned to launch with Halo in November but the disastrous reception forced them to push it back.

Damn I should look there next time I need to renew.

Yeah I think that's a fairly safe bet.

I downloaded Fall Guys on Playstation Plus (it's also on steam for $20) and played it last night with a couple of friends. It's a battle royale—no! Wait! Come back! I swear it's different this time! This is a battle royale in the style of a physical challenge game show like Ninja Warrior or Takeshi's Castle. The game has a pretty low skill ceiling and all you really have to do is run, jump, and occasionally grab things, but the sheer chaos in competing in events with so many other people can make for a pretty hilarious spectacle. One of the games has you all trying to cram yourselves through a narrow doorway and we were all cracking up at the gigantic piles of bodies trying to climb over each other like the World War Z movie. This does mean that sometimes how well you do can come down to luck. With so many bodies pushing and bumping against each other there will inevitably be times when you get shoved right off a platform. However, this is still much easier to win than a game of Fortnite or PUBG. I managed to win an episode last night, even. I could have won three times but two of those times I made a couple of easily avoided literally very-last-second fuckups that cost me the crown. Oh well. Easy come, easy go. I think there are two big reasons that I enjoy this game when I hate every other BR game. 1) Each round in an episode is quick and lasts an average of two minutes each. It's not a shooter so there's no boring period where you are all just scrambling for a weapon and then waiting for something to happen. There's also no chance of you getting instantly eliminated at the start of the game, leaving you frustrated and feeling like you're wasting your time. No matter how bad you are at the game you will always be able to play through the entirety of at least the first round. If you do get eliminated then jumping into a new game takes mere seconds, server status notwithstanding. 2) This is really more of a party game than a skill-based esports title. While there is some on-the-fly strategy involved in how you approach a challenge, I doubt you'll see much metagaming here. We probably won't be getting any Ninjaesque streamers who dominate everyone else on a regular basis. I won't say your platforming skills don't matter but the chaotic nature of the game can help and hinder you in equal measure. Think of it like Mario Party without the board game bits. My only two big criticisms of the game are easily fixable. First, it needs more minigames, which I'm sure they're already working on. Second, there are a couple of team based games where you can end up losing in the last two seconds even when you were completely dominating the rest of the round. It's like timing a capture the flag game and then picking the winner based on whoever happened to be touching the flag when the clock ran out regardless of how long everyone else was holding the flag the rest of the time. I would prefer these games be scored based on time spent in the lead rather than all-or-nothing at the very end. Still a fun game with a ton of laughs, though. If you have PS+ or you just want something fun and silly to play with friends I'd give it a look.

Thank god the mongols only have a handful of these archers.

I'm not really much of a Biden Stan but I sure hope he beats Trump in an absolute landslide in November. Not just so he'll be indisputably labeled as a loser for the rest of time but also so the GOP might finally be forced to do some god damn introspection for once and ask themselves how they need to change if they want to win next time.

Nioh 2: The Tengu's Disciple It's pretty short with just two main missions that last about an hour each if you don't die and a handful of side missions that can range from 10 to 30 minutes each depending on skill level and mission type, but the whole season pass is only 20 dollars so I kind of expected this. There are, however, multiple new bosses and they're pretty good. A few of the them are recycled from the first game but they've been redesigned with new attacks that make them stronger than before. Whether they're harder or not is a matter of opinion. Nioh 2 gives you far more defensive and offensive options than Nioh 1 so at least for me personally I didn't struggle with them nearly as much, but I've gotten pretty good at Nioh after playing it for so long. Full disclosure, I was also overleveled for this DLC. I've heard that the original game's DLC expected you to be at least halfway through NG+ before you tackle it, which a lot of people complained about, so this one is balanced in a way that makes it accessible right after you beat the campaign. However, I was already halfway through NG+ so I pretty much breezed through it. I'm sure when I eventually replay it on NG+ difficulty it will be much tougher. The new splitstaff weapon is pretty cool and introduces a new style of gameplay since it's a weapon based more on draining ki and then going for deathblows than it is on doing large amounts of direct damage. I think this applies to everyone regardless of DLC but there are also new accessories called picture scrolls that you can equip. These are rare, high level drops that provide very powerful bonuses but in order to unlock them you have to first go inside of the scroll and complete a mission. Each scroll has one static perk and two random perks, but if you don't like the random perks you have a limited number of attempts to re-roll them by completing the mission again. Not bad so far. Looking forward to the second episode.

Well Trump's approval rating is around 45% sooo...

Definitely. Aside from the graphics, the OG version was better in almost every way. More content, longer levels, better online, and arguably even better writing.

OG version was actually much better.

If they do bring back the games I want to see more Chaos Theory, less Conviction.

Let's do it! Bring it on, you filthy yokai!

Friend of mine surprised me with this because he wants to play VR shit together. I'm looking forward to seeing what the community has come up with while never submitting anything myself because I'm a braindead consoomer who can't into programming and design.

Ah yes, the J.J. Abrams school of writing. Everybody loves that.