Posts published by “Paul Tassi”

I was excited to see that Netflix’s Castlevania: Nocturne was reviewing extremely well, a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes , living up to the high scores of the previous show, one of the best game adaptations of all time. But I was perplexed by the 52% audience score, literally half of the 100% and “rotten,” as

In the wake of the Jim Ryan era of PlayStation, while he leaves behind a successful PS5 and a string of expectedly good first party releases, attention now turns to Sony’s stated super-investment in live service games. Previously, they revealed it would be 60% of their spending as opposed to 40% going into their trademark

It is easy to roll your eyes at the idea of Amazon trying to form the “VCU,” the Vought Cinematic Universe spawned out of its hit, The Boys, now with one spin-off, Gen V, and potentially others to come. Fortunately for them, and all of us, Gen V is not a bad cash-in on the

While fans were excited about the possibility of a remake of one of the greatest Star Wars games ever made, Knights of the Old Republic, things have not gone according to plan. The KOTOR remake was announced way back in 2021 at the PlayStation showcase, revealing no real footage but at least saying the project

I like James Gunn’s work. Quite a bit. I think he’s done great work with Guardians of the Galaxy and his Suicide Squad variant. Peacemaker was great. Hell, I even love Slither. But his messaging on his new takeover of the DCU has been…confusing to say the least. We’ll start with the topline, that Gunn

I have made no secret of my uh, “support” of Destiny 2’s microtransaction economy . Not in that I think it’s great, just in that I found it incredibly hard to resist shelling out for its items over the years. I play the game an insane amount, I run three characters, I love fashion. It

There is a very, very wide range of opinions on Starfield, Bethesda’s new mega-release and the reason Elder Scrolls VI will arrive probably 15 years after Skyrim, at minimum. But a reason for that is also Skyrim itself, the massively successful open world game that has been released and re-released and modded to hell and

I am currently on my third story of the morning based on a wild collection of leaks from accidentally released documents in the FTC v. Microsoft MSFT case. So far that has included a look at a new Xbox Series X design , the idea that Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo as recently as 2020

This post was updated with new information at 1:15 p.m. after publication at 9 a.m. New, accidentally released documents in the FTC v. Microsoft case reveal that Microsoft was pursuing an acquisition that would have been even more ambitious than the company’s current $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, expressing a desire to buy Nintendo.

While I know everyone always cites BioWare’s Anthem as a tragedy of the live service looter genre, I think the more depressing case may be Marvel’s Avengers , a game that sort of really never had much of a chance as Crystal Dynamics tried to infuse loot (which had no visual component) into a superhero