The new Warhammer Blood Bowl published by Slitherine will be out in fall, and I’m looking forward to it because I enjoy pain I guess

At this point being into the digital versions of Blood Bowl is basically masochism. In the 1990s MicroLeague published a version that was so cheap and nasty I said, “to call it barebones would be an insult to skeletons.” Cyanide picked up the licence after that, releasing two decent adaptations whose DLC model was controversial…

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I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too

As we descend ever further into an AI-fueled dystopia, one question about our future becomes ever more pressing: When the internet is dominated by machines, who’s going to be around to continue its long-standing tradition of fetishizing Japanese culture and media? Well, there’s no reason to worry, because it turns out the AIs are weebs,…

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Union claims Bethesda developers ‘received termination letters’ the day Xbox announced new Fallouts—after being told they would still have jobs until September

The Bethesda Game Studios Union says it is filing a legal complaint against Bethesda for “continuing to violate labor laws in Canada” by prematurely terminating Canadian employees on July 17—the same day it dropped a huge announcement about the future of Fallout and other games. The timing of the Bethesda infodump was suspect, to put…

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