Tunic is a great little game. I can't think of any other game that captures that feeling of playing a game for the first time and slowly testing the boundaries of what you can and cannot do. Definitely one of the better love letters to the old Zelda games out there. My main issue with it was the fact that the end-game is mostly just puzzle-solving. It kind of felt like the game had changed genres on me, especially since I had seen it recommended so many times as "Zelda meets Dark Souls".

Honestly, the most interesting part of all of this is learning that Larian has an official Tumblr account.

This actually doesn't sound terrible? I mean I'm sure people will find ways to abuse it, but the concept seems pretty good. There are plenty of tiny channels that could use something like this to get more attention when they put out a video.

Well, my expectations for this game were already on the floor. Guess it's time to put them in the basement. I mean I want a good sequel to Bloodlines, but that's looking less and less likely.

Sega is definitely winning the console war now.

Glad to see the Stop Killing Games initiative continuing even if the most likely response from the UK government is going to be "No".

Just think of all the memes you could mine from four hours of patented Lucas dialogue.

No? Xbox might not be in the greatest place right now, but it's a far cry from where Sega was when they discontinued the Dreamcast. Yeah, Microsoft stepped on a lot of rakes with the Xbox One, but it wasn't a Saturn-style disaster and Microsoft is still doing well enough to buy out a major game publisher.

It's an impressive battle plan. I'm always a little pessimistic when it comes to these things, but at least this effort is casting a wide net. If even one of them succeeds that could impact the entire industry. Hopefully some government body, somewhere chooses to take this seriously.

GOG continues to do great work. Alpha Protocol isn't necessarily a good game, but it has a lot of interesting ideas in between long stretches of glitches, jank, and broken gameplay. Hopefully this sells well enough to justify bringing more abandoned titles to GOG. The little mini-documentary they put out going over the process of getting the game on GOG is also great and highlights all the recent efforts to push back against the "own nothing and be happy" mindset game companies are trying to push.

The delivery of these lines makes them feel like the ones you see in unfinished content where they have some random person do the lines because they haven't cast a voice actor for the part yet.

"So, we alienated some people with our Harry Potter game and we alienated a lot of people with our soulless, live-service Suicide Squad game. What if we just combined those together?"

Genius business strategy WB. Although, given how well Hogwarts did there are probably plenty of people out there who would go for that.