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I didn't say that it's high content. Just that there is big enough audience for it.

I think the main purpose of YongYea's channel is to keep his viewers informed about industry news in a convenient way. That said, he doesn't seem be very well informed about C&C, otherwise he would be aware that the most popular C&C titles (in my experience Red Alert 2, Generals, C&C3) were all developed under EA. On the topic of Rivals: It's a mobile game through and through, not just in the sense that it's on Android/iOS. It has a everything that screams mobile: Random rewards, pay to win, bogus currencies, only so much levelling per day to ensure that players play every X hours, even basic stuff has to be unlocked, tiny upgrades that give you the illusion of progress but are meaningless until you accumulate a ton of them etc. I played one match against another human (the tutorials are vs. the CPU). The other guy had a little more experience than me and the game was somewhat balanced... until I build a single Titan, which I had drawn from a reward crate just before the match. The other guy had nothing he could use against it effectively and just lost.

That's so cute.

I'll fairly judge it by the standards of Command & Conquer mobile titles.

Tiberium Alliances is apparently good enough to keep the lights on for six years. so Rivals will make money too. Not from angry hardcore fans, but it will make money.

No idea, to be honest. It looked like a grenade launcher to me, but I never looked into it.

Neat. I never knew that disc grenades were a real thing. I didn't even know those were supposed to be discs initially, because the German version of Tiberian Sun sill calls the Disc Thrower a "Grenadier". Small addition: Once upgrades with scrap once, the Generals Technical gains a grenade launcher.

Not having to host anything is within Valve's freedom of expression. Active Shooter doesn't "explore" anything, as opposed to games with dark subjects, like That Dragon, Cancer (which is on Steam). Regarding "especially when non-interactive media does it frequently": Nobody is preventing the guy from making this game. He can put it on his own website if he wants to, or on other platforms. Just like not every film about school shootings has an automatic right to be screened in cinemas, or to be featured on Netflix. "Other games are bad too" is no justification. As for Steam allowing the game first and removing it later: That happens because Steam has no quality control in place. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had games that blatantly violate copyright (e.g. that Smash Bros clone with characters from 15+ franchises) or games with no .exe. They publish first and ask questions later.

Steam is a privately run platform. They are under no obligation to host anyone's rubbish (even though they do host a lot of rubbish). That said, the reason why films are treated differently is because there aren't many - if indeed any - films that just show someone killing school children. Taking this list as a sample, films about school shootings focus on exploring the motives of the shooters, the aftermath, social reasons that lead to school shootings etc. Active Shooter does nothing like that. It's just a trash game from some edgelord who thinks he's rad for making a game like this in a time with regular school shootings in America. If this game was like SWAT 4 (i.e. an actual quality game), or an interactive story type game, it would be a different story.

I doubt that. The first iPhone came out a couple of months after Tiberium Wars had already been released, and Android wasn't released until a year later or so.

If you don't want people to speak ill of you after you died, try to be a nice person while you are still alive.

Some developer ripping of some mobile game is one thing. The mobile game market is full of rip-offs, and 50%+ if the Android Store infringes copyright. The same thing from a studio (supposedly) backed by one of the world's largest studios? That's a bit of a different story.

Aaaaaand stuff was apparently lifted from Games Workshop. Again.

I can't agree with that, and I don't agree with the article. In my opinion, the distinction between WRPG and JRPG is mostly about mechanics and design, with the former having a focus on free roaming and blank-slate characters with high customisation in contrast to turn-based combat and pre-set characters and narrative. It's not even based on the country of origin; the Darksouls games are WRPGs and Dust is very much a JRPG, even if the former comes from Japan and the latter doesn't.

Not mentioned that the MP of most games is dead after a couple of months, and the severs get shut down at one point.

Looks almost like a RA2 port at first glance, not just a game based on RA2.

If the previous C&C mobile games are any indication, it's going to be more shallow than Dune II. I'm not dissing Dune II here, but even 25 years later, on more powerful hardware, I have yet to see a mobile games that surpasses early and basic RTS games. I don't mean the iOS RA3. I mean the Java game by EA Romania those story links RA2 and RA3.

RA 2 Mobile already exists, in the form of Red Alert Mobile.

Seems more like a survey form to generate a semi-amusing mash-up name than any attempt to eve superficially capture what different people like in RTS games.

Nicely done. I think like so many semi-fictional weapons (laser guns etc.), the Tesla Coil suffers from the fact that simply throwing a piece of metal at high velocity is more cost-effective. Unless there are significant advantages that justify the cost, humanity will probably stick with bullets and similar projectiles for now. Also, I'd love to read an article on the Tiberium universe walkers. Nitpick about the EMP article. "EMP Pulse " is overkill.

I'd say the best year in PC gaming history is now, because I can play all of those games today if I want to.

Looks nice, but the landscape (rocks, trees) still look comparably fake. Very good nevertheless, but does this look better than, say, Advanced Warfare?

it's not about banning, it's about regulation:

Still looks better than the average Unity Engine Steam rubbish game. That said, is this authorised by Valve i.e. is "Freeman" here HL Freeman? Or is this just another fan mod, but with a ridiculous price tag?

Sounds more like a commodity than an actual currency then.