AlexOlney

@thesilverbrick *ice cream.

@olrodlegacy Weirdly it's actually the other way around; EB took over GAME.

GAME has the potential to be good. GAME has the potential to be great, but it's been reduced to nothing more than a shop that sells games; games that can be bought for less with less hassle and delivered to your door on the day of release for free.

There is no advantage to GAME, and it's genuinely disappointing. I used to love going in there and seeing what they had on offer, but the focus has shifted to profit over everything. Consumers are moving on and to cope they're having to boost their prices leaving the remaining few paying more for nothing extra in return.

The games don't need to be on display, that space can be far better used for demo kiosks and the like where people can try games out before purchasing them, adding value to the experience. If there was an Argos-type system with a back room holding thousands of individual copies of games without the need to display them nicely they could save an incredible amount of hassle and floorspace and use that to provide other experiences for the customers.

Selling games was their USP but now that has been taken over by bigger, more streamlined outlets and GAME needs to adapt to survive.

And no, I don't mean by introducing a new premium membership that offers naff all.

This leaves me with the wobblies.

@thesilverbrick A few people still play.

You know, just 5 million daily active users.

So not many.

@PtM "Here, have this helpful content entirely free of charge"
"I want it, but I want you to do it twice in different formats"
Can you see the issue here?

Genuinely heartwarming to see a game of real promise and passion managing to find the funds it needed after a rocky start. I've not played much (planning to play it through with the better half) but what I have played has been superb. Bardzo dobrze!

The puzzles are genuinely clever without that Monkey Island-style 'use everything on everything until something works' motif. There's logic to it all and the presentation is wonderful. Nice one Ryan!

@itzdanburton I'm so glad someone got it.

@Damo *Trully.

This started so promisingly, but now the range of phones this promises to work with is ever shrinking, which is a real shame.

Still yet to indulge in a Raid Battle, but I love the idea of them.

It makes me a little bit sad that the controllers don't use teeny tiny SNES connections, but I suppose I'll live.

Having only played this game the once and still somehow winning, I'm very excited to get my hands on it.

@SEGATA_DREAMCAST SEGA hasn't done this just to be lovely, the games are supported by ads so they're making money from them being out there. They deserve the same level of criticism as anything else.

@MegaVel91 There's nothing inherently wrong with Unity, it's just a much more limited toolset for developers to use over a custom engine. The Sonic games are the exception as they were created by the exceptionally talented Christian Whitehead and don't use the same wrapper as all the others.

That's a very long-winded way to dance around the phrase 'It's a bit rubbish because we used Unity'.

This is the composer for Banjo-Kazooie writing music for a Super Mario game made by the developers of Assassin's Creed.

@setezerocinco It's not free, it's ad supported, so we pay with information.

This is ridiculous and I love it.

YES

Oh god, not another video.

Getting major Dune (PC) vibes, and that is no bad thing.

You see? Advertising works.

'Retro Plus' sounds an awful lot like 'low-resolution-but-not-low-enough-to-be-charming-and-retro-just-a-bit-on-the-uggo-scale' to me.

Well, there's a bit of an editing error at the end there, but the video's been up a bit long to re-upload, so enjoy it!

And it comes on a CD-Rom. Nice.

The year is 2017; Nintendo is open and progressive, Sony is draconian and restrictive.

What happened?

Yes please.

Yes please.

I think I need to change my pyjama bottoms.

Bit big for the capacity.

Glad to see from the comments that it's not just me and that this doesn't really strike me as a 'proper' MH game. Still, it's only a single trailer so it's not really fair to judge it too harshly just now.

@jezperrott I more meant you can use the battery as a grip and plug it into your Switch's charging port so you've got fewer trailing cables as well as a grip and battery in one, overall saving space.

@kukabuksilaks Actually, using as a grip is a bloody genius idea. Might be a bit big but it's nothing I'm sure I couldn't get used to.

I'm flip-flopping all over the place, suddenly this seems like a good idea!

That teeny-tiny ethernet adapter is definitely on my radar, but I have no idea what that charging plate illustrations is supposed to be showing.

Is it a sleeve that goes around the Switch? Is that the Switch's screen at the top or is it something else to do with the device?

EDIT: On closer inspection I think the whole thing is a battery with Joy-Cons on the side.
A weird, misshapen, impractical battery.

Nice hands.

Silly buggers.

And children will still find a way to use these to beat the snot out of each other.

@ThomasBW84 I'm not sure I can forgive that tagline.

Palms sweaty, ARMS spaghetti.

@BLP_Software

Next on the agenda: Broken Rboadwsord.

Good hands holding that Joy-Con there.

This remix sounds so good I wouldn't be surprised if the original was made with these kind of limitations in mind to make sure the tune was as good as it could be and without overcomplicating it.

@speedracer216 This is only one of two pieces of official artwork of Twintelle available, the other being stylised and very low res; we don't really have much of a choice.

The gameplay mechanics are utterly superb and brilliantly broad yet refined.

The presentation and dialogue though... ehhhh...

@RupeeClock I can't say I've ever tried to hold select in any instance and everything seems to be working fine. Try reconnecting it as done in the vid through the controller menu by just pressing Y & Start and leaving it. Sometimes it can seem to take a ludicrously long time but just leave it to donits thing and it should pair up nicely.

Then leave that Select button alone in future connecting 😉

@RupeeClock Every time you connect you need to hold Y & Start, not just Start in case that's what you're doing 🙂

Actually, it doesn't look too bad. It's not going to outshine Mario Kart any time soon but this has the look of a decent kart racer.

Helix or death.