Hey now, he was a fat guy who also loved bombs.

Rotate it 7200° and you’ll have bacon all over the floor.

Your likely best bet is whatever you’d call the genre RimWorld is in. RimWorld itself could probably scratch that itch if you up the number of colonies you can have in the settings and add a few mods that expand the world map-level gameplay.

It’s been a while since I played it, but doesn’t Automata open with you fighting a mecha kaiju oil rig?

Well duh, it’s also a starship!

Ha! It’s a bit poorly named, but what the mod actually does is edit out most of the anime reaction sounds in the cutscenes. It’s surprisingly subtle - there are still plenty, but they’re placed where it makes sense instead of characters exclaiming with every slight movement they make.

The mod page has a comparison video with the base game that shows what I mean, but if the noises didn’t bother you then more power to you. Just be careful - I hear they can be contagious.

When you get around to playing FF7R you may want to check out these two mods. I couldn’t even make it through the intro without them.

That moment and what happened after defeating the Elite Four in Pokémon Gold both blew my mind as a child.

GTAV has made over ten billion dollars, one billion of that in its first three days. They would have earned more than double its entire lifetime development costs (estimated at ~200-250 million) if they’d charged a twentieth of what they did.

They’ve monetized GTAV so thoroughly via Online that they’ve given the game (including single player) away for free because they still made a profit off of it.

Charging $100 for a sequel they’ll definitely monetize even worse is the epitome of greed.

The first ten to fifteen levels look like they’d be tedious to replay after every death. Maybe have them only occur the first run per play session and the timer/restart point begins after that?

Considering the latest news from Unity, all Godot has to do is exist to become a better alternative.

Is the other 50% smugness and delusions of grandeur?

Scientists be like “ow, how?!”

The author agrees with you.

The “support” was clearly a hallucinating AI agent, and Ubisoft has already clarified that the game is still supported and should get a patch in the future. This is yet another example of how replacing employees with LLMs doesn’t actually work.

That’s a search that seems like it could backfire horribly.

Chaser is a 2003 FPS from Cauldron, who would go on to create all time classics like Secret Service (2008) and Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts 2011.

As an aside, anyone who hasn’t seen the madness that is Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts 2011 and its 2013 sequel, please watch the linked videos (especially the second). Those games are insane in a way that’s hard to put into words.

Michael Pachter being comically wrong and out of touch was a running joke at Ars Technica and gamesindustry.biz back in the day. He’s the Jim Cramer of industry analysts.

His catchphrase to get kids interested in mining: “Don’t forget to bring a trowel!”