v.profane • Comments

• Former THQ president reveals Metro dev's terrible work conditions

• v.profane 16/05/2013

  I had one of those chairs at a crappy call centre job (for a big American corporation). Didn't make it any more bearable and I had no idea they were so expensive. Paying more than minimum wage would have been much more welcome. Reply +3

• Hawken art prank changes CEO's mind about scantily clad women

• v.profane 15/05/2013

  Regardless of the subject, is that artwork really good enough to blow-up and frame? Reply +2

• Danny Bilson: inside the rise and fall of THQ

• v.profane 10/05/2013

  "That game didn't lose money," he says. "So I don't know how it could contribute to the downfall."

  Opportunity cost; the money spent on making a half-arsed, 'me too', 'merica fuck yeah! FPS could have been spent on something that would have turned a good profit or established a new IP with some longevity. Reply +2

• The Room rakes in over 2 million sales

• v.profane 09/05/2013

  Don't worry about it! Reply +4

• Game Dev Tycoon forces those who pirate the game to unwittingly fail from piracy

• v.profane 29/04/2013

  @The_B Fair enough, unfortunate this publicity has come too soon for them. Reply 0

• v.profane 29/04/2013

  Read this elsewhere and decided to check out the game: website down, not on Steam, not on GOG, lost interest. Make your game easy to buy. Reply +6

• Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded, the re-make of the first game in the series, is out in June

• v.profane 22/04/2013

  So will it still kill you at the drop of hat (or fly)? Reply 0

• Homesick dev Chloe Sagal successfully crowd-funds life-saving operation

• v.profane 09/04/2013

  Fuckin' magnets etc. BTW the mandate-free Tories have have already destroyed the NHS as we know it (i.e. opening it to private profit making), although you wouldn't know from mainstream press coverage which is more interested in lionising a dead woman who did more than anyone to move Britain toward a dog-eat-dog capitalist society where people have to beg for their lives like this. Reply +7

• Arena.Xlsm is an RPG made by an accountant and played entirely in Microsoft Excel

• v.profane 25/03/2013

  Is Clippy a mandatory party member? Reply +4

• Lord British thinks "most game designers really just suck"

• v.profane 20/03/2013

  Wright and Molyneux haven't put out a novel game for over a decade, unless you count Spore a.k.a SimCity preview. Reply +2

• Carmageddon: Reincarnation becomes a PS4 and next Xbox game as well

• v.profane 20/03/2013

  I found the t-shirt that came with my collectors edition of the PC original the other day. That was a good xmas. Reply 0

• SimCity update 1.7 released, includes traffic congestion improvements

• v.profane 20/03/2013

  Version numbers are arbitrary in terms of what exactly they represent, however 1.0 is almost universally recognised as signifying a fully working product tested to a reasonable degree and ready for end-users. 1.7 may be justifiable, but the 1.0 wasn't. Reply +1

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut for Wii U confirmed, and yes, they've fixed the boss battles

• v.profane 20/03/2013

  What about the shitty ending? Although I suppose the ending of the original wasn't so hot either. Reply -1

• Origin exploit discovered, allows EA store to launch malicious code

• v.profane 19/03/2013

  @Der_tolle_Emil Here's the same problem fixed for Steam: http://www.valvetime.net/threads/fixed-possible-security-vulnerability-documented-in-steam-when-using-certain-internet-browsers.231713/ Reply 0

• So long, John Riccitiello

• v.profane 19/03/2013

  are we really damning the whole of Mass Effect and Dragon Age

  no, just the sequels.

  isn't every Criterion game brilliant?

  you'd have to be extremely easily pleased to call Burnout Paradise "brilliant". Reply +5

• John Riccitiello out as CEO of EA

• v.profane 19/03/2013

  @dogmanstaruk No it isn't. Private businesses can do what they want. Why do companies like Valve behave differently to EA? Because they can, they're not beholden to shareholders and they can say "that's enough profit" or "let's give away something for free", or "let's not put out a sequel this year and work harder on it". The NHS is not profit driven but will be after April the 1st when the Tories abolish it and with it this countries' single greatest post-war achievement. Reply 0

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  EA will always be awful while they are a public company. Trying to show you've made more profit 4 times a year every year by any means necessary is not conducive to making good games or being customer friendly. Best you can hope for is that they don't buy out any more decent studios and that the odd good game slips out without being 'monetised' and 'market tested' to death. Reply +2

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  But wait, there's more! Arstechnica:

  Bug on EA’s Origin game platform allows attackers to hijack player PCs

  Reply +32

• SimCity sells over one million copies in two weeks

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  I wonder how many of that million thought they were buying an online multiplayer game, or wanted to? Reply +2

• Spec Analysis: Samsung Galaxy S4

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  @wayn3h some models were affected by a manufacturing defect which caused the wi-fi signal to be weak and unreliable. I'm not sure how prevalent it was, but it caused a fair amount of negative buzz in the tech press immediately after the launch. Reply +1

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  @wayn3h The Wi-fi defect didn't help. Reply 0

• SimCity disaster: EA's list of free games includes Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 and, amazingly, SimCity 4

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  @badwhippet should have included Spore... Reply 0

• Mortal Kombat Game of the Year edition spotted for PC

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  Better late than never, if true, I'll buy it. Reply 0

• Maxis attempts to explain why SimCity is always-online as players discover code for 20-min offline force-shutdown timer

• v.profane 18/03/2013

  What other multiplayer game or "MMO" is designed to allow you to be disconnected from other players for 20 minutes? Reply 0

• Saturday Soapbox: Christopher Nolan has ruined video games

• v.profane 16/03/2013

  If you think Nolan's films have no humour in them you're either rather obtuse or you haven't actually paid attention. Reply -2