Eh, maybe asset flips is too harsh, but I do think the texture work on the environment meshes just don’t match the 2D characters. It’s kind of like placing 16bit character sprites next to 8bit character sprites; you can tell one is way more detailed than the other. That’s how the environment looks to me; it’s not following similar style guidelines as the characters.

I’d prefer it if the 3D environments were at least slightly stylized and didn’t look like default marketplace assets with a black and white filter over them.

I really have no idea.

So, now that Epic won against Google, Valve is going to swoop in and sell Android games?

For every one game this happens to there are thousands of others that flop every year.

You’re telling me businesses didn’t want to hold meetings in Second Life and consumers didn’t want Facebook harvesting data?

I’m shocked, I say. Shocked!

The ending is perhaps wrapped up a little too perfectly. You look at something like Twin Peaks and you know who did it, but it ends in whatever the opposite of wrapped up perfectly is and people talk about it for decades.

When a product’s most promosing feature is you can turn it off, you might have a problem.

no way they get it running at playable frame rates without a second dedicated graphics card on current gen hardware.

Their marketers are salivating at the thought.

Finally, Gamers™ are getting a filter for all the female protagonists that aren’t hot enough. Gaming is healing!

“There may just be some of Bungie’s best work buried beneath the surface in Marathon,” he wrote in Eurogamer’s Marathon preview. “And I can’t wait to dig it out.”

Seems kinda backhanded, but okay.