RonnieBarzel

With Tri-Ace snatched up, I wonder if Square Enix would ever consider putting one of its internal teams or an external developer on a new 'Star Ocean' game, or will it just let the IP rot away in its vault alongside Mana and Ogre Battle.

He has a clear claim to "the father of home video games," but any claim more grandiose than that gets kind of hazy. What we think of as arcade video games are the result of several different lineages: electro-mechanical games that had populated arcades in the '40s-'60s, early computer games (most notably "Spacewar," which predates Baer's breakthrough by a few years), and Baer's Odyssey.

We have a winner! As the wise man said: follow the money.

The movie is coming out Spring 2016.

@monkeystick said:

I think Kevin's "Somehow, I am in the tiny group of GameSpot authors still left standing" is a pretty strong piece of evidence that some series $%*& went down today at the site.

https://twitter.com/fiddlecub/status/494582909698076672

Has there ever been a DLC pre-order "prize" for a console video game that didn't later make it out as normal DLC available to everyone? (I had to add that "console" qualifier as I'm willing to be Blizzard has done something like that with the WoW expansions, or some MMO publisher for its PC game.)

That pretty much sums up my feelings. I was listening to the "China Don't Care" Bombcast and just marveling at the way he could guide things without seeming to. Good ones can host; great ones can host without appearing to host.

Mac 10.8.2/Firefox 18. I've been having very similar issue to what has been reported -- stopping almost instantly once a video has begun, and then another freeze/buffer about every 12-15 seconds -- but am now resting easier after seeing a) that I'm not the only one who has had trouble, and b) @snide's reply a few replies up. I can live with some rough videos for the time being.

With a new owner, will this mean Jason Rubin will be leaving the company? I'm not an economics major, but it would make sense to me that a new owner would want to install its own people.

Kotaku's article about the troubled development of 'X-Men: Destiny' makes Jeff and Ryan's discussion near the end of their Quick Look of the game (beginning around the 31-minute mark) seem eerily prescient.