Jake

Yep, that's my experience too. Game devs, especially devs who are also game fans, are going to read the same things as everything else. Just like fans, some developers read Gamasutra, some read RPS (especially if you're in a PC-focused house) or Giant Bomb or whatever, but by and large you're going to see a ton of Kotaku, a fair bit of Joystiq, trailed by a smattering of everything else

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It sounds like deliberate bad anime dub voice acting which is what I didn't like. I know the common denominator is "bad acting," but there's a specific cadence and style to the voice acting in western dubs of eastern content, and it was wholly baffling to hear it in Black Mesa Source.

The site was designed before we were really using Twitch. Thanks for the reminder, it'll be rectified. Also thanks for the Latin tip.

Yeah the VO was so off putting it made me almost not want to play it at all.

Trying to deliniate generations is also dangerous to me. What is a third generation roguelike? Fourth? Fifth? Barf. Can we just say "it is a roguelike," and then have a conversation within that definition?

Episode 3's out today on PSN (North America), tomorrow on XBLA/Steam. I don't know when Europe/international PSN comes out.

Thrik your brain will fucking explode when you watch eps 3 and 4 of the DFA documentary.

Just played on a LAN at work and it was super super fun. Now I just kind of want to have a small MvM LAN.

WHO INVITED TOBLIX?

I think you're giving credit where little or none is due. People jumped on "girlfriend mode" because of specifically what it meant when coming out of a specific person's mouth. The phrase "Girlfriend Mode" on its own could mean a thousand things, but only one was implied when it was said. You can abstract that away and discuss the words on their own devoid of the context, but the reason people flipped out was entirely, specifically contextual, and that shouldn't be ignored for the sake of an academic argument.

Or jump everyone back to the base before a new round begins, like they do in every gametype. Or include upgrade stores in a couple places in the map, maybe gated with sliding garage doors the way they gate additional spawns in capture point and cart maps, so you don't need to walk all the way back to spawn? Anything else.

The announcer saying "hurry up and get ready before the next wave arrives!" set a cool sounding precedent in my mind between rounds, which was immediately deflated by the revelation that "the next wave arrives" when everyone on your team has pressed F4.

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The inclusion of Gravity Bone is awesome! Also the commentary is awesome! (Also the game still crashes on the load screen for me )

Seems likely that Brendon makes more from a direct sale. Also seems like he wouldn't offer it on Steam if he didn't want you to buy it from there!

It's called The Visit and we link it in the blog!

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So this looks pretty sweet, Tearaway, from Media Molecule, for the PS Vita. I don't know much about the game other than what's shown in the trailer, but it looks like they've through about what would make interacting with the VIta interesting. Also the trailer itself is just really damn well done.

I'm still uncertain on it myself. My read was that there were chains of existing maps which resulted in a drop as a "tour of duty," whereas otherwise it was similar to normal TF2 -- the map would come up which means that gametype is active and you're playing it until the objective is over, then you switch to whatever's next on the server. I'm waiting to actually play to see what's up, though.

If I'm reading right, you pay to be tracked and get a drop at the end, not to play.

The first and second MvM updates have been happening in the evening, Pacific time, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was still a few hours off.

Where do people find this stuff? Am I missing some details in the teamfortress.com update or is there extra detailed coverage somewhere?

Got a link to this?

I don't really know, other than mitigating event spam. We could just run some stuff out of the Thumbs Steam group, though. Me too. Would Demoman have received the Gunboots instead of Soldier? Damage-less stickyjumps would have been sweet.