Yearly Archives: 2018

In Wake of Red Dead 2 Crunch Discussion, Rockstar Office Now Explicitly Told Overtime Is Optional

Surrounding the controversy of Rockstar employees working mandatory 100-hour work weeks during the development of Red Dead Redemption 2, a UK-based office, Rockstar Lincoln, has decided to switch their system of mandatory overtime to voluntary, according to Kotaku.

Kotaku originally heard from six sources and was told differently from Rockstar's head of Publishing, Jenn Kolbe, that overtime was never mandatory, but was part of a system that involved requesting and scheduling overtime by bosses – but that employees could always say no.

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10 Awesome Switch Games For Under $10

It’s payday and you just got paid! You’ve got a Nintendo Switch, and now it’s time to spend that money. You buy groceries, pay your phone bill, pay your rent, pay your internet bill, and now it’s time to ball out and buy some Switch games... with whatever money you got left.

Ten dollars. That’s... not a lot of money. But don’t worry! We’re gonna make it work. Here are the best 10 Nintendo Switch games you can buy for under ten bucks.

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10 Awesome Switch Games For Under $10

It’s payday and you just got paid! You’ve got a Nintendo Switch, and now it’s time to spend that money. You buy groceries, pay your phone bill, pay your rent, pay your internet bill, and now it’s time to ball out and buy some Switch games... with whatever money you got left.

Ten dollars. That’s... not a lot of money. But don’t worry! We’re gonna make it work. Here are the best 10 Nintendo Switch games you can buy for under ten bucks.

10. Bombing Busters

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EVE FPS Project Nova Is Shooting for the Stars, But It’s Not There Yet

Project Nova is more of a sequel to the doomed Dust-514 than I’d expected. The last EVE FPS was an insanely ambitious shooter that intertwined platforms, meaningfully shared a universe and, well, didn’t quite work. Laudably, even having to prematurely shut down that particular experiment hasn’t dissuaded developer CCP from trying again.

Even more laudably, the developer really wants to get that crossover appeal right, not just make a simple spin-off. Project Nova not only picks up on Dust’s story (it tells an ongoing tale of the elite clone troopers we were introduced to in the PS4 game), but aims, once again, to integrate with the always-fascinating EVE Online. Just not quite yet.

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EVE FPS Project Nova Is Shooting for the Stars, But It’s Not There Yet

Project Nova is more of a sequel to the doomed Dust-514 than I’d expected. The last EVE FPS was an insanely ambitious shooter that intertwined platforms, meaningfully shared a universe and, well, didn’t quite work. Laudably, even having to prematurely shut down that particular experiment hasn’t dissuaded developer CCP from trying again.

Even more laudably, the developer really wants to get that crossover appeal right, not just make a simple spin-off. Project Nova not only picks up on Dust’s story (it tells an ongoing tale of the elite clone troopers we were introduced to in the PS4 game), but aims, once again, to integrate with the always-fascinating EVE Online. Just not quite yet.

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Daredevil: Season 3 Finale Review

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 13. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 12.

"Today was the happiest day of my life."

Well this is certainly a crazed, charged blaze of glory!

Daredevil vs. Bullseye vs. Kingpin? Are you kidding me?

All while Poindexter's trying to kill Vanessa and Matt keeps stopping him? This is pure malicious magic.

And bloody magic too. In fact, funny to note, as soon as you see both Fisk and Vanessa wearing sheer white (with that trademark rose as a final touch) you can almost smell that things are going to get messy. It seemed like either Vanessa was going to get killed, spilling her blood all over Fisk while she dies in his arms, or Fisk was going to kill someone else and get that sinister splatter all over him. Hell, he could've even spilled celebratory nuptial meatballs all over himself, but somehow that garb was going to get ruined. Fisk, at his most powerful, at the happiest he's ever been, was going to face tragedy.

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The Kylo Ren Joke That Had to Be Changed for Ralph Breaks the Internet

Disney’s first Wreck-It Ralph came out in 2012, the same week that the studio announced its acquisition of Lucasfilm. Which is to say, new Star Wars movies were barely a twinkle in the eye of the Mouse House at the time. But now six years have passed, which has provided the filmmakers behind the Wreck-It sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet plenty of Star Wars fodder to play with amid the film’s many nods to other Disney properties like Marvel and the Disney princesses.

And yet, there was one particularly noteworthy joke that didn’t make the cut.

As directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston and head of story Josie Trinidad explain it, Disney declined to run with a certain Kylo Ren gag.

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The Kylo Ren Joke That Had to Be Changed for Ralph Breaks the Internet

Disney’s first Wreck-It Ralph came out in 2012, the same week that the studio announced its acquisition of Lucasfilm. Which is to say, new Star Wars movies were barely a twinkle in the eye of the Mouse House at the time. But now six years have passed, which has provided the filmmakers behind the Wreck-It sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet plenty of Star Wars fodder to play with amid the film’s many nods to other Disney properties like Marvel and the Disney princesses.

And yet, there was one particularly noteworthy joke that didn’t make the cut.

As directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston and head of story Josie Trinidad explain it, Disney declined to run with a certain Kylo Ren gag.

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Spider-Man Devs Respond to Puddle Complaints With Photo Mode Sticker

Before Marvel's Spider-Man debuted on PS4, some would-be players were upset about...puddles. But developer Insomniac Games has now let players frustrated about puddle size reimagine the game with as many puddles as they could want.

As part of today's new Spider-Man PS4 updates, which include New Game Plus and an Ultimate difficulty, Photo Mode also saw the addition of new stickers and frames. And as part of those new options are puddles, as seen in the image below.

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Spider-Man Devs Respond to Puddle Complaints With Photo Mode Sticker

Before Marvel's Spider-Man debuted on PS4, some would-be players were upset about...puddles. But developer Insomniac Games has now let players frustrated about puddle size reimagine the game with as many puddles as they could want.

As part of today's new Spider-Man PS4 updates, which include New Game Plus and an Ultimate difficulty, Photo Mode also saw the addition of new stickers and frames. And as part of those new options are puddles, as seen in the image below.

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