Let’s be honest: Plant-based hamburgers are actually shamburgers.
Best stories of the week
You’ve just bought a TV that’s pretty much smarter than you, you’re ready to watch some movies and then you’re faced with the greatest horror to face mankind since my nudes leaked onto the Internet: That gosh darn motion smoothing effect that nobody asked for. It’s an effect that makes your TV look like it has been smeared with Vaseline, a soap opera filter that cheapens any entertainment broadcast through the screen.
After years of this nonsense, the UHD Alliance is ready to get up and fight the scourge unleashed by TV manufacturers, with an artier and more cinematic visual option in the form of Filmmaker mode. And it’s about damn time. Next on the list, a brand new Shovel Knight spin-off that looks ace of spades thanks to its 16bit upgrade and I cannot believe how hype I am for that new Joker movie which may be exactly what DC needs to avoid being called a Marvel clone again: Mad movies with one-shot themes, an A-List of talent working on it and a freedom to diverge heavily from the source material.
That does put a smile on my face.
Worst story of the week
Just in terms of the news we covered this week…it actually wasn’t a bad week in gaming at all! I mean besides the Amazon rainforest being burnt down to make space for more cows, Boris Johnson’s coup going uncontested and more horror stories from the United States of Trump, it was a decent time to ignore the world burning and just focus on video games.
WTF stories of the week
Star Citizen, a game which at one point was ready to be remembered as the most successful crowdfunded venture in history…and became something else instead. Something much worse: A prime example of feature creep and being up the crappiest of creeks without a paddle. While a handful of believers will still vehemently defend Star Citizen with their dying breath, the developers behind the game are all too happy to keep making money off of their harpooned whales, as Gamescom saw Chris Roberts Industries host an intimate dinner for their most devout backers.
A dinner which cost $275 a seat, and was aimed at introducing a new digital spaceship to the tune of $675 so that players could throw more money at the impossible dream. Well…well alright then. In less exploitative but no less bamboozling news, Death Stranding’s Hideo Kojima decided to explain more of the ideas behind Death Stranding and I’m still confused dammit.
Header image of the week
For the three Blackadder fans who get this reference regarding Bandai Namco not getting caught up in the spat between the Epic Games Store and Steam: WOOF!
Comment of the week
Best comment this week goes to…Geoff! Because he nailed my theory that Overwatch will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, based on my deep dive into unreleased merch:
You make a good case for it coming.
#inb4cheddar
And some people accuse us of nepotism. Gosh, perish the thought.
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Last Updated: August 30, 2019
Admiral Chief Emissary
August 30, 2019 at 14:51
Tim Curry Red Alert!!!
Geoffrey Tim
August 30, 2019 at 15:12
SPAAAAAYYYCEEEEE!
Pariah
August 30, 2019 at 15:02
Just stock up on air freshener and put a roll or two in the freezer.
Admiral Chief Emissary
August 30, 2019 at 15:13
I had some of that new KFC hot and crispy the other day, wasn’t hot, wasn’t that tasty, but my digestive system decided at 1 in the morning to perform a full system purge. The next 3 hours, it was, as they say, not a picnic.
Times like these a bidet would have been handy
Pariah
August 30, 2019 at 15:13
My only question in all this: why KFC?
Admiral Chief Emissary
August 30, 2019 at 15:21
Indeed. My wife was on her way back from her step-mom (pre wedding dress things) and got some on the way back.
Henceforth KFC was banned in the house by both of us. Me from the guttural experience, and from her because of the sounds/smells emanating from the bathroom
Pariah
August 30, 2019 at 15:21
Well at least that’s one positive.
Pariah
August 30, 2019 at 14:51
It’s not nepotism if the comment is worthy.