WotC becoming just as litigious and odious as TSR in its heyday is darkly hilarious
4 Likes
they always have been
3 Likes
It’s just such a weird curse. As soon as you take ownership of the D&D IP, it infects your soul with cthonic energies
5 Likes
The ghost of Gary Gygax reaches from the chill of the grave, grasping your heart and squeezing until you cast 10d6 lightning bolts on your players in real life
7 Likes
It’s not really a curse it’s just the only tabletop IP capable of making real money that isn’t like, World of Darkness, because since real money is involved real corporations and real corporate bullshit happens.
Now whatever the fuck is WoD’s deal? That’s a fucking curse.
1 Like
RIP Role-Aids
I got one of their shitty monster books way back when because the Monstrous Compendium was perpetually too expensive.
1 Like
15 Likes
14 Likes
wow, that’s a comeback i never thought i’d see
one of the best games i ever got from games with gold back on the 360
4 Likes
1 Like
Be still my beating heart, it looks like they managed to nail down the quickboost of the 4th generation games in a way that still keeps ground play and the environment relevant similar to the earlier games.
Oh, don’t mind the sudden barking of all the dogs, that’s just a side-effect of that soundless shriek I just let out.
1 Like
I appreciate the fusion of AAA cinematic mise-en-scene and a mech microdashing every picosecond when it cuts to top down.
3 Likes
Waypoint is officially done. i know they semi rebranded to “Vice Games” and lost staff awhile ago but now it appears all the people are being laid off
it’s really been a bleak situation in 2023 so far for games media publications. i don’t really know what replaces this stuff, if anything.
i mean i always thought it was going to go the way of MTV News eventually but Waypoint actually seemed to have a greater impact on the culture of games in a way that a lot of the other makeshift games publication things didn’t. like the community around it seemed pretty active and engaged for awhile (tho not to the degree of Giant Bomb or whatever, but still more than you’d expect for a lot of things like that). so it’s very much expected but still sad.
12 Likes
also i guess as an early 2010’s Game Blogger of Note Waypoint was like the most successful translation of that sensibility into something that had a greater reach and cultural impact and effect on the like way people talked about or thought about games.
11 Likes
4 posts were split to a new topic: waypoint news thread split
Damn, RIP to Waypoint! It definitely had an influence on my interests and sensibilities about games and games criticism when I was moving through my early 20s.
2 Likes
Gonna be honest here: read that and thought that meant there would be no more Shantae games, not even sure I heard of these other folks before now but always sad when people lose their jobs.
6 Likes
the scanlan’s monthly of video games must arise from gamer VICE’s ashes and give voice to a new generation of gonzo gamers.
stoke the ancient furnace… armored core…
1 Like
Smut Mahjong for the Famicom in 2023
3 Likes
waypoint shoulda done like wot polygon did and basically just pivoted to being another IGN