Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
After leaking once in September, then again in February, then in March, it appears the BioShock collection is ready to leak for real this time. While previous leaks came mostly from trademarks and retailers, today’s news actually came from 2K’s website, where the name appeared for a few minutes this afternoon before it was removed:…
Introducing Cheering: Celebrate, together. When we watch Twitch, we feel surrounded by people who understand something that many just don’t. And when amazing things happen on stream, there’s no one else we’d rather celebrate with. The moments we share on Twitch, and the streamers who create them, are the glue that binds us together. So…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisitionhttp://www.thejimquisition.comhttp://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim… Overwatch is one of my favorite games of the year, but I cannot in good faith consider awarding it the title of “best” game. My long-running policy of disqualifying premium games with microtransactions in them is consistently enforced, but it’s pissed off a lot of Blizzard fans. As an attempt to bring understanding to…
Following last month’s news that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund initially rejected DICE’s pitch for Battlefield 1, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said today that there were concerns the company’s younger audience didn’t even know World War 1 happened. Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2016 Global Technology Conference, Jorgensen said there was “some debate”…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisitionhttp://www.thejimquisition.comhttp://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim…Buy “March of the Sterling Jester” by Carl Catron – https://carlcatron.bandcamp.com/track… Battlefield 1 has turned a lot of heads. Its announcement video is the most liked trailer on YouTube. Hell, even I’M interested in it. Electronic Arts executives, however, didn’t want it to happen, which is sadly true of a lot of executives in this…
When Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s fastest selling video game ever, was released in 2014, it captured the hacking spirit of the times. The game’s hacker hero, Aidan Pearce, takes advantage of the connected nature of today’s smart cities to wreak havoc in Chicago while hunting down the organization that killed his niece. The game was so…
Nintendo has publicly denied that joke from an E3 demo for the upcoming Wii U game Paper Mario: Color Splash is a reference to a harassment campaign that targeted game designer Zoe Quinn. The company says it’s a nod to the Watergate scandal from the 1970s. The jokes drew scrutiny yesterday as they were passed…
These days, it’s not all that uncommon to run into somebody who’s streaming and commentating while you’re playing a multiplayer game. If they’re not A Tool Of The Actual Devil, they might mute their mic. But in a team-based game you can’t always afford to do that. Dapper Dog managed to put together a Team…
For confimration, you were not silenced for reporting others. You were silenced for using chat like this: 2016-06-07 19:25:03LILI WHAT THE (double expletives) ARE YOU DOING (expletive noun)2016-06-11 10:46:50 kill tracer noobs (religious figure) (obscene word) 2016-06-14 00:35:25 AWSOME the (offensive words) THAT CANT REPLY TO MY INSULTS TOOK MY PICK2016-06-14 lol I will (politier…
Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, is trying to pull the plug on bots. The live-streaming platform has filed a lawsuit against seven bot makers for selling bots that are allegedly used to inflate view count, follower count, and chat activity on Twitch channels. In a blog post, the company’s SVP of marketing, Matthew DiPietro, says…