The cycle of videogame discourse loops around again, an ouroboros chewing its own tail and pausing only to vomit up one of the same half-dozen topics we must apparently discuss again and again, until the world's ending. This time, the cyclical serpent has barfed out the subject of how long a videogame should be. Do your best to ignore it. Let's talk about something else instead. Let's simply peruse our libraries, look over our save files, and take note of those games we've decided are worth dedicating, say, to pick an entirely arbitrary number at random, 500 hours to.What game have you spent the most hours in?Here are our answers, plus some from our forum.
In a wide-ranging New Year's open letter, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda has addressed a broad spectrum of technologies from the "metaverse" to cloud gameplay and AI, but the majority of the letter focuses on a personal enthusiasm for blockchain tokens. While Matsuda does not explicitly say that Square Enix will put NFTs in any specific game, he does say that the company is keeping a close eye on the technology and will "ramp up our efforts to develop a business accordingly, with an eye to potentially issuing our own tokens in the future."Most notably, Matsuda acknowledges that lots of people do not like the idea of tiny, persistent microtransactions becoming a fundamental part of their games. "I realize that some people who 'play to have fun' and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so," he writes.Despite this, he is un
I'm talking about the kind of puzzle where finding out the solution only makes you more mad at how arbitrary it was. Broken Sword had the infamous goat puzzle, Gabriel Knight 3 had the cat hair mustache puzzle. If your adventure game puzzle has an entire Wikipedia page devoted to it, it's probably not for a good reason, yeah? Other obvious contenders include the babel fish in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the custard pie in King's Quest 5, the custard toilet in Discworld (don't ask), and everything from our list of the 10 worst and most WTF puzzles in adventure gaming.What's the most frustrating puzzle you ever got stuck on?Here are our answers, plus some from our forum.
With Windows 11, Microsoft hasn't exactly reinvented its desktop operating system. Instead, the Redmond company has used the now-mature Windows 10 as a solid base and modernized.