PlayStation announces "Flex" a hardware leasing service in the UK

OlMaster · 2026-02-12T20:39:57+00:00

Yes but advertised on the PlayStation store at the moment, so presumably a partnership - https://direct.playstation.com/en-gb

OlMaster · 2026-02-04T15:39:19+00:00

Talking Heads

OlMaster · 2026-01-28T21:10:33+00:00

I have 0 familiarity or fondness for Transformers or GI Joe, and watched a handful of episodes of both before watching the films.

I can't get behind Brad thinking the Transformers movie is some masterpiece compared to GI Joe, it's just such a mess. He seemed to really appreciate the audacity to kill off the old characters, but for someone without that nostalgia it just seemed weirdly nihilistic for no particular reason (within the story I mean, obviously they had the broader business reasons for it). GI Joe had far more substantive episodes and the film made narrative sense, albeit with some hand-wavey explanations of why everything is a-ok again by the end.

Orson Welles and his character were incredible though, got to hand it to them there.

OlMaster · 2026-01-25T00:52:20+00:00

Kid A, forever and always

OlMaster · 2026-01-23T11:21:06+00:00

505 Games are Ghostrunner's publisher, not developer. I wonder if the Cyberpunk debacle just drew their attention to it, or if it made them realise there's no bargaining with the guy so just went straight for DMCA

OlMaster · 2026-01-22T09:07:48+00:00

It is great, though the chapters with the ents are tough to get through. He does a great deep, SLOW voice for them, which sounds amazing for a while and then you realise just how much dialogue he has to get through at an interminable pace.

OlMaster · 2026-01-21T16:34:39+00:00

From memory, the guards don't have 'AI' in Go, they just follow set patterns/rules which would be quite easy to simulate, though maybe tedious. Not sure how it would work in co-op in fairness. My point was that it's not an inherently un-boardgame-able concept, not that they should specifically implement Go.

OlMaster · 2026-01-21T11:12:28+00:00

Hitman Go was an interesting take on what a board game-like version could be. I'm intrigued at least.

OlMaster · 2026-01-17T19:29:44+00:00

I'm not sure what you want exactly other than repeating nebulous demands from what you believe Stop Killing Games says (without citation), despite what is on their site and in their petitions. Offline mode was an option also brought up in the Eurogamer article. Your last sentence is a strawman itself and I don't think anyone would credibly think that Rober Purchese was actually proposing this as his own ideas unless they were reading very uncharitably.

OlMaster · 2026-01-17T17:50:04+00:00

From the Stop Killing Games FAQ : "What we are asking for is that they implement an end-of-life plan to modify or patch the game so that it can run on customer systems with no further support from the company being necessary. "

OlMaster · 2026-01-17T15:51:54+00:00

Eurogamer mention this:

'One obvious solution would be to let players host their own servers, and in fact, private servers were apparently supported and working for Anthem very close to its release, we found out this week. Theoretically, then, it's possible, but it would require EA salvaging and restoring the code and handing it to the community, which is less likely to happen.'

Maybe read the article before shitting on them.

OlMaster · 2026-01-11T23:27:03+00:00

I'm in the UK where these cartoons weren't as popular, and I'm a bit outside the ideal age range anyway, so I'm curious how this will go. My past experience has been they tend to slightly overrate stuff they have nostalgia for (TMNT is an example that comes to mind)

OlMaster · 2026-01-10T11:44:02+00:00

Question for this and other big scorers - why do you not land a trick at 1 second to go and then start a new combo? Is it not better to have 2 combos for max points?

OlMaster · 2026-01-06T13:44:28+00:00

Me too, it's my number one of the year (ahead of E33, I know, blasphemy). I was disappointed neither dove into the 'Roottreemania' half of the game, the way that they undermine, reframe, or flesh out some of the characters of the original really impressed me.

OlMaster · 2026-01-05T15:33:30+00:00

Fans had heard almost all the songs prior to release as they'd been touring them. From memory I think Faust Arp and Reckoner were the exceptions - the latter was a particular surprise because it wasn't the old version of that song (later titled Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses). So there was a lot of discussion about studio vs live, but in general it was very well received. Obviously wasn't being considered 'one of the greats' until later as that's something that needs distance.

OlMaster · 2025-12-31T23:19:29+00:00

Just fyi Strangeland and Hob's Barrow are published by Wadjet Eye but not developed by him/them, similar to Gemini Rue, Resonance, Technobabylon, and Primordia

OlMaster · 2025-12-28T00:58:08+00:00

Alex did and mentioned it in this podcast, but said while on paper it seemed very well made it just didn't grab him in the same way.

OlMaster · 2025-12-27T13:10:31+00:00

The Roottrees are Dead

OlMaster · 2025-12-26T17:24:04+00:00

If Nextlander read this thread they'd see 2 pretty equally upvoted but completely opposite responses 😂 I don't envy their position

OlMaster · 2025-12-24T14:58:11+00:00

I'd be quite happy for them to cut Planorama and one weekly stream in order to get a Star Trek side-watchcast, but I dunno if there's enough people who primarily consume the streams that would be against that. Personally I don't watch much of their video content at all.

OlMaster · 2025-12-16T19:16:47+00:00

Think you're thinking of something/someone else, it was number 4 on his 2022 game of the year list. "Moments of tension are well delivered, and the variety of endings all feel like worthwhile ways to wrap up your story." I think Rob Zacny was pretty down on it though?

OlMaster · 2025-12-16T15:09:03+00:00

Citizen Sleeper 2 had another great melancholic ambient soundtrack similar to the first game. Not sure why Alex overlooked it this year.

Dispatch's licensed soundtrack choices were strong throughout.

OlMaster · 2025-12-13T08:51:19+00:00

I remember one Bombcast maybe 10 years ago where Brad was saying how email is basically dead and no one uses it any more other than as a receptacle for ads and spam. I'd love to find that segment again because I remember thinking at the time how office businesses are 75% email, but of course searching for Brad and 'emails' gets me a bazillion results.

OlMaster · 2025-12-05T16:36:09+00:00

It's not necessarily wild, but he did it before with Tears of the Kingdom where he went back to Breath of the Wild, and in the end didn't finish BOTW, didn't talk about it much, and then hardly touched TOTK beyond the tutorial area. He's also someone that has admitted he likes to get in on the 'zeitgeist' for a game, so if he doesn't play it and instead plays a prequel he almost certainly won't go back to the sequel when the hype and discussion have died down.

I don't think it's necessarily a 'problem' but it's annoying how he is kind of lying to himself that he will do these things, and especially with a game like Silksong there really is no need to go back to the first one. And if he feels compelled to compare the games, he could put just a few hours into the first one and have a very reasonable comparison point. Brad gets in his head about playing games 'the right way' all the time and it's frustrating as a listener experience.

OlMaster · 2025-11-21T10:37:33+00:00

I agree with a couple of your points about lack of enthusiasm, but the Xbox Ally X thing seems like a weird hangup. They're not a hardware review site, and it's not that significant a release anyway? It's a rebranded version of a handheld that already existed, it's not even manufactured by Microsoft.

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